Friday, August 22, 2014

31 Things To Do In Chicago!

31 Things To Do In Chicago


1. M.O.S.I. - captured WWII German Submarine you can actually go on.


2. The Field Museum - Sue the T-Rex and the Lions from the film "The Ghost & THe Darkness".


3. OZ Park


4. Wrigley Field - Soldier Field

5. Hemingway Birthplace & Museum


6. Haymarket Martyrs Memorial


7. The Sears Tower


8. The Frank Lloyd Wright House

Frank Lloyd Wright

9. The Art Institute of Chicago


10. Hull House


11. Millennium Park - The Bean

Millennium - two L's, two N's

12. Grant Park - (You can definitely feel the ghosts of Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg
from the 1968 Democratic Convention)


13. Buddy Guy's Blues Legends - if you're lucky you might even catch the man himself.


14. Reckless Records


15. Quimby's Comics

Don't break the glass.

16. Navy Pier - Ride the Ferris Wheel and imagine The White City.

17. Chicago Fire Memorial


18. Goose Island Brewery


19. Billy Goat's Tavern ("Cheeseborger, Cheeseborger...)


20. Catch an improv show at Second City


21. Picasso in Daley Plaza


22. Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinders across the street from The St. Valentine's Massacre site.


23. Biograph Theater where John Dillinger was killed.


24. Uncle Fun


25. The Shedd Aquarium

26. The Adler Planetarium

27. Fireside Bowl


28. Revolution Books - Women & Children First (feminist bookstore)


29. Lou Mitchell's Diner - Beginning point for Route 66.


30. Al's #1 Beef


31. Visit the historic Blackstone Library.


... that would just about cover a nice long weekend I think.