Chicago's pretty awesome, not too tall of a skyline, not pretentious and it's on Lake Michigan with Chicago River running through downtown.
The subway in Chicago doesn't run ground level, it's like MUNI, but it runs below ground and elevated. We didn't ride it but it looks cool like in movies and Batman and stuff. All the buildings are awesomely old and have a lot of character.
The shiny bean was awesome, actually worth paying $10 for 40 minutes of parking.
(yeah, Chicago's eexpeennnsiiive...)
Of course we had to have some deep dish pizza in Chicago and beer goes great with pizza soooo we looked to local breweries Half Acre and Goose Island to provided the refreshment.
Everything costs an arm and a leg in Chicago so we skimped on the activities but we did shell out for the Museum of Science and Industry. It was pretty awesome except for the farm propaganda exhibit. Its really not so great that soy can be found in nearly every food that comes in a box. As for the rest of the Museum, it's amazing take your kids and show up early!
Before we left we went to a greasy spoon to get some dinner. When we got back to the truck we saw that someone forgot to roll up their window, but we didn't get robbed! Maybe it's because we were in Hyde park area?(where Obama hangs out)
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Actually the L runs at ground level in a number of places. The Brown Line is at ground level near its end in Albany Park/K-town. The Yellow Line (or Skokie Swift to all right-thinking people) is entirely at ground level. Of course, unless you wanted Bi Bim Bop or a good Jewish deli you aren't likely to have ridden either.
Also, Hyde Park isn't a particularly swanky part of town. The University of Chicago is there but except for the college kids it's pretty middle class and surrounded by some pretty rough neighborhoods. The Obamas do live in the nicest part.
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