We just had 3 days in Chicago athe annual Taste of Chicago - a 10 day food event that attracts 3.5 million people annually. We stayed down town in the charming old Congress Plaza Hotel on Michigan Ave.
On our way to Chicago we stopped in at a famous Hamburger joint in Lafyette on the Purdue campus. Fabulous hamburger and Root Bear.
We walked miles in Chicago - there is so much to see. Mum - you will remember the River Architectual Tour we took in 1997 - we took it again - such a facinating city archetectually.
We had 3 perfeft weather days....beautiful clear skies, no humidity and very pleasant temperatures.
We walked along the river to Nacy Pier.
This was the view from our room window - looking west across the city with the famous Sears Tour dominating. No longer the tallest building in the world.
The Chicago Sun Times Building. A landmark in the city. See next photo for the architectual wonder.
The Chicago Sun Times Building. A landmark in the city. See next photo for the architectual wonder.
2 comments:
nice to be in the windy city when it isn't windy I suppose
Yes - not windy at all...in fact we learned that it is not nicknamed the windy city because of the wind (although I have been there when the wind is wicked), it was actually nicknamed that becasue of a political champaigne in the late 1880's when the candidates were all 'windy' with their speeches. Little known fact.
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