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12341234
edited September 2013
So... what happens in Chicago? I'm on my way there. I want to see that weird metal coffee bean.

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  • NickNick
    Things to not miss:
    MCA
    Quimby's
    Hot Doug's
    Reckless Records
    there are lots of great places to go see shows, if you're into that. Chicago Reader can tell you all about what's happening where.

    Things to miss:
    Navy Pier
    The Burbz
  • NickNick
    Also say hello to my Mom, she misses me.
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    You should do the Willis Tower Sky Deck. Think it could make some great promo materials for K5M.
    Eat some Lou Malnatis or Ginos East pizza.
    The Chicago Diner is great vegetarian food.
    Bears play tomorrow. YOU SHOULD GO!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    smoke all day long and eat nothing but sausage
    Chicago Diner is great
    Art Institute
    CHICAGO STYLE PIZZA, it's not Brooklyn pizza! When you eat Chicago pizza you are like, oh now I get why it is called a "pizza pie"
    Paddle boat on the lake, just kidding
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    edited September 2013
    so many great museums
    so many excellent neighborhoods
    so many fine dive bars with old style signs out front

    Eat pierogis of many flavors
    Drive the length of Devon Ave on a warm evening and travel thru many lands
    Go to Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind for neo-futurist theater
    Have a drink at the Cheesecake Factory in the basement of the John Hancock building then take the elevator 96 floors up and have another drink at the top with a view (at double the price)
    Have a drink at old haunts of Al Capone (The Green Mill and Rainbo Club)
    Take acid and visit the Museum of Science & Industry
    Forgo vegetarianism and taste the glory of an Italian Beef sandwich
    Get tickets to Second City and witness the next wave of tv comedy stars
    Take the architectural boat tour down the Chicago river
    Drive fast on Lower Wacker
    Go to a show at Steppenwolf
    Eat dinner with my parents in their screened in back porch (veg and vegan options available, requires trip to suburbs)
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    go to Northwestern and heckle the undergrads
  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    Ditto the Art Institute, they have a video art collection for watching
    You nailed the Bean! Picasso in Daley Plaza
    Architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright might have built some stuff in the area you can see. Sullivan did psychdelic botanical panels and was Wright's teacher. Early Wright was Sullivan-Mayan before he went Western horizontal chill
    Visit Fermilab for a tour
    U Chicago has some outstanding and notorious (economics) departments, may be some talks when you are there
    As you tour the Chicago River, consider the city reversed its course leading to a famous environmental law case.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Go see the Sea & Cake open for Tortoise at the famous dive bar "The Ball & Bag", visit Billy Corgan's childhood home, record a new Smashing Pumpkins album with Billy
  • DeathDeath
    edited September 2013
    Museum of Science and Industry! Cool science + it's an original world's fair building.
    Also, go to a Cubs game. Seriously.
    Also Boystown is super fun. The Chicago Diner that Steve mentioned is there and I have had a lot of good nights starting at the diner and then wandering that area. Plan on waiting if you go to the diner.

    Also, on 2 occasions I was not stopped from wandering behind the Shed Aquarium post midnight, and the dolphins are often right there and if they are they will totally come up to the side of the tank and wave at you.
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