Saturday, 18 June 2011
In the Loop!
A 4:30am start on Saturday morning, to return the car and catch our flight to Chicago. I'd like to say that everything went smoothly, but 'Budget' car rentals are hard to deal with! Anyway, we caught our flight and it was a good one, landing in Chicago around noon. We took the 'Express' minibus to our hotel which is in the Loop area of Downtown and is close to just about everything, including the Hancock Tower!
Chicago is impressive and we were soon beating its streets, mostly because we couldn't check-in until 2:30pm!
We found a neat place to eat "Jake Melnick's" where we ordered a 'turkey club sandwich' and were convinced that they'd doubled-up the order when it came! Then we saw that apart from doing the 'best ribs in town' (a claim to be tested later!) they also offer.....wait for it...an 8-pound cheeseburger!!
Having checked-in we discovered that the room is really nice and has a spectacular view of 'Million Dollar Mile' from its 24th Floor spot!
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Great pics from Chicago. I’ve visited several times en-route to the University of Madison Wisconsin, and I’ve been to conferences there. It’s where my favorite architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built the Lakeshore Drive apartments which were the first skyscrapers with a glass exterior, it’s the home of the Chess label and sanctuary for black musicians escaping the racism in the south and it’s where I had my first ride on a Ferris wheel, only for the thing to break-down with me at the top. What made it worse, in the hour it took for it to be cranked round, there was a thunderstorm with forked lightening landing in Lake Michigan about 200 yards away.
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