What do you think is the top tourist attraction in the state of Illinois. Six Flags Great America? Navy Pier? Grant Park? Sears Tower? Soldier Field? Well, assuming you haven’t already cheated and read the title of this post, you might be surprised to find that it’s actually a shopping mall. It’s true! At 27 [...]
Living in Dallas, I’m familiar with what we’ll call the undue extremity of temperature. What’s that? Well, it’s a phrase I just made up to explain the phenomenon of how extreme temperatures in places like Dallas feel that much more extreme than in other places. A few weeks back I was in Denver, for example, [...]
Chatty as I am, there’s no way I could do justice to the rich culinary culture of Chicago in a single post, so I’ve decided to start small. (Not that deep-dish pizza and “small” have anything to do with each other!)
Ah, Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. Is there any food more sinful that isn’t somehow deep-fried? Actually, [...]
From the word “go” (heck, from before the word “go”), the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago’s famous Grant Park was a monstrously ambitious project. Contributing $3 million of his own money (roughly 35 million by today’s standards), capitalist and philanthropist John Shedd envisioned an aquatic ecological attraction like the world had never seen, and [...]
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The Boutique Beat – Silversmith Hotel & Suites
At USA Travel Guide, we recommend a lot of big brand hotels: Hilton, Holiday Inn, Wyndham, maybe even a Marriott or two, and we’ve got our reasons. There are lots of them, for one, and standardized amenities add a degree of dependability that we appreciate. But in keeping with the spirit of our own 2009 [...]