Chicago Travel Blogs - Page 2

  “Downtown Chicago is home to more than 100 sculptures, mosaics and paintings in plazas, lobbies and on the riverwalk. The dedication of the ‘Chicago Picasso’ in 1967 confirmed that Chicago was a city for the arts…an open-air museum” [The Chicago Public Art Guide]   I pick…

So I'm just going to throw this out there...I love flowers.  I adore flowers.  But more than just the flowers I obsess over taking PICTURES of flowers.  So the Chicago Botanical Gardens really is the place for me.  We spent about three hours looking at all the different gardens …

Our last day in a great city!!  We all wanted to take the Wandella Boat Tour. So we headed across the river and signed up for the 10:00am tour.   It was $22.00 for the one hour Architecure Tour of Chicago. This was a very enjoyable and informative tour. I wsh we had done this on…

                Today was spent discovering a few of the many museums that Chicago has to offer.  But first we had to have breakfast. Lena planned to take us to a place call “The Corner Bakery” but instead we ende…

I'm kind of impressed with how nice people are in Chicago. It's been freezing cold, and it's been snowing almost nonstop so Christine and I didn't go out that frequently, except to eat!! =) There are about a thousand steakhouses here in Chicago, with my favorite one by far being Capital Grille. The…

Our second day in Chicago was a day of recovery for some! I was up bright and early, as usual. This is an after effect of having small children, the inability to sleep past 9 AM. I was pretty much on my own until about 4 PM. I didn't have much planned so I grabbed a coffee and took off down the Ma…

Just wanted to go somewhere for the weekend and what would have been a better place than Chicago!

At some point I might expand .. but for now you just need to know about me driving to Navy Pier & meeting Eva at Bubba Gump's & eating at the Beer Garden and walking to the Rock N' Roll McDonald's & her dropping me off at the AMC River East movie theatre so I could watch a movie.

My parents and one of my brothers, Heath (TB: dizygothic) visited me as they hadn't seen my new place.  Also, my parents hadn't been to downtown Chicago for a number of years - well, to walk around and sightsee anyway.  So we made a day of it.  The weather was quite nice!

      I rode the train into the city as a bitter cold wind threatened rain. After walking east through a canyon of towering skyscrapers, I found Millenium Park. The 24.5 acre park is Chicago's center for art, music, architecture, and landscape design and is one of the city…

My girlfriend, Melissa, and I arrived in Chicago around noon. We had drove from Indianapolis to do some cheap, last-minute Christmas shopping in Chinatown and, more importantly, attend our first TravBuddy meet & greet. Upon entering the city, we immediately headed for Chinatown. I had never bee…

   I had already shut-down my place for the winter by draining the waterlines, putting cars up on blocks, removing their batteries, and shutting off most of the building's electrical circuits. The routine had become an annual ritual that I could probably do blindfolded. I stayed in town…

For sometime I felt as if Chicago was a forgotten city.  Maybe not to many Americans, but to the international community I always wondered if they knew anything more about what was now my hometown other then Michael Jordan, Oprah, and Barack Obama.  While Chicago is a major American city,…

Enjoy the my blog about the TravBuddy Meet Up at the Peoples Lounge in Chicago. With more then 15 people and amazing food it made it a great night. Check out the photos below!-David

There was no direct flight from Miami to KC, so I had to take a connection in Chicago. I was thinking about sleeping in the plane, since I didn’t sleep at all the night before and didn’t want to arrive tired to KC. Usually I travel alone, that’s why I’m always wondering who’s gonna si…