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In no particular order ...

New York
San Diego
Cleveland, Ohio (for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cedar Point)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee County Zoo, loads of festivals, Wisconsin State Fair)
Toronto - revisit

If you come to Chicago, go up to the 95th floor restaurant at the John Hancock Center and have lunch or have a drink at the 96th floor bar - the views are so cool! Go to Navy Pier; go to the Art Institute because the new modern wing just opened and it's gotten rave reviews. The Art Institute is free on Thursdays after 5 PM. Go to Oak Street Beach and do a little people-watching. If it rains, go to the Museum of Science and Industry (check their Web site for free day schedule). You can get bicycles at Navy Pier and ride up and down the lake front paths.

Edited to ask: Can I have more than five?
Washington, D.C.- new memorials and museum about the Holocaust have opened since I was last there, and my cousins live in Virginia and I have friends from college in Maryland.
Northern California, San Francisco, and where they grow grapes for wine making.
Savannah, Georgia.
I want to drive up to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, take a ferry across Lake Michigan (because you can - takes about 4 hours to cross). The other end is Ludington, Michigan, and I could drive back down through lovely southwest Michigan.
New Orleans
Colorado and/or Utah - mountains, clouds, sky, fresh air
Nashville and Memphis, TN
Can I add a few more?
Philadelphia
Boston
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, in the upper peninsula of Michigan
The Grand Canyon