What to do in...

.... Chicago.

I'll be there for a couple of days soon. Anyone got any
recommendations for things to see, clubs to go to,
places to eat, things to do.


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Why not go see the Chicago Cubs play baseball?

 

Great seafood restaurant just off of Lake Shore Drive. I can't remember
the name of the place, sorry [1] but it's just past the Days Inn on Lake
Shore Drive (with Lake Michigan on your left). Do the Sears Tower too..
highly recommended.

[1] Just got in from the airport and i was too pissed to care at the
time on my way out!

HTH

 

Take in the views from the observation decks of the Sears
and John Hancock towers.
Go to a decent Blues club, although I can't recommend any
from memory.

Hire a car, drive exactly 106 miles away, smoking half a pack
of cigarettes in the process. Fill the car up with petrol, don
sunglasses and wait until after sunset. Turn the car around....

"Hit it!"

 

For full effect ensure that you are followed by 147 [1] instances of
Illinois law enforcement vehicles

[1] I think that was the number. Do I qualify for an ANORAK#?

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http://travel.guardian.co.uk/saturdaysection/story/0,8922,639347,00.html

has a list of blues clubs - article is dated 2002

the most well known one is still going - Buddy Guy's Legends
http://www.buddyguys.com/home.html

 

Go to a blues club in Maxwell Street.

Well, that's what *I'd* do if I was lucky enough to be visiting
Chicago.

Home of the electric blues, is Chicago, started when the black
population started leaving the south [1] to work in the factories of
the industrialised north. Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Chess Records.
Check it out.

[1] biggest peace time migration in history, according to some
documentary I saw a few years back.

 

"William Grainger"

Have a nice beer for me on top of the Hancock Tower in
the Signature Room, one of my fav places in Chicago.

I quite like Chicago, having been there a couple of times.

and for the evening entertainment there is:

http://tinyurl.com/nobo

 

"Bear"

Didn't think you'd have a thing for Britney Spears? ;-)

 

PeterT fascinated us all by saying...

I do, she looks corruptable.

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Compare and contrast;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090888/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275022/

HTH,


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Yup. NFL games are always worth going to and the Bears fans are
certifiably insane - but in a nice way[1].

Unlike the Eagles or Raiders fans who are just a bunch of arroagant
morons who boo their own teams if they ever get behind in a game.

Brian Urlacher (defensive lineman) is not afraid of
tackling other people with extreme prejudice..

Phil

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Get shot. That could be a first.

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Black it is
and naked

 

I got very, very drunk there on more than one occasion.

 

well, it *is* the birthplace of House, so some clubbing might be in
order....

 

Wonder what the Champ challenge with the Cane twist is?

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Champ :

Didn't like the ending much.

 

I can't remember the ending. It is a _very_ long time since I last saw that
film.

[1] Not the soap, or the Brittany Spears film, the 1985 film about guitar
players.


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AndrewR :

The karate kid won.

 

How ironic. Birthplace of one of the finest forms of music, then
later one of the worst abominations ever committed in the name of the
art.