I quite enjoyed Chicago. Great architecture. Easy to get around. Good food choices. I was only downtown but blown away by how clean it was.
Chicago is a one of my favorite cities. Great public transit system, good music scene, awesome chill bars all over the place, good food (both hoity toity and cheapo). O'Haire sucks for a layover, but flying in and out of it was always fine for me. Nett, to your point. One of my favorite Chicago memories is going to Rosa's Lounge on a random week night and getting to listen to amazing live blues by a bunch of guys that had been around a long long time.
Chicago is great. I've spent a week there a few different times for work. Lots of great food, decent public transit, some areas are super walkable. I would never live there because, if I'm going to live in a place that cold and windy, it better be near the mountains. But it's a pretty good city.
Yeah, but it should be fine if the gauge actually reads that low - instead of just "too cold to register" once it's below 0 or something. It's a lot harder / more expensive to design, build, install a gauge that will actually read that low.
Some friends of ours would buy the big sets for their sons: Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. They'd keep the box, the instructions, and once the boys were bored with an assembled Lego set, they'd repackage and sell them, often at a higher price because by then they were discontinued.
And just started the car after leaving it to sit and completely power off, and it seems to have fixed itself. Yay for small miracles.
Wifey and I went to Chicago on st. Patrick’s Day weekend, we liked it. I took her to Ed Debevic’s without telling her about their theme of being as condescending as David Spade to the customers, she thought she was going to some cool 50’s diner (which she loves) and instead gets called “princess” by a waitress snapping gum in her face. The thing about Debevic’s or Dick’s Last Resort is that every commercial business needs “that”. There needs to be a sports store where the sneaker guy tells you “You want to buy New Balance over Nike for running a marathon? Is this for a Special Olympics marathon?”
Last time I was in Chicago I got hammered at a tiki bar called Three Dots and a Dash. Then two days later one of the guys on the business trip with us had to go to a meeting in Sheboygan Wisconsin. He then proceeded to get himself arrested for solicitation. Chicago was fun, though.
I’ve been there for work a few times, and took the family there on vacation a few years ago. Very easy city to get around in, stupendous food of every variety, tons of cool things to do. We really enjoyed it. And one thing no one else has mentioned- Baseball. Chicago is a great baseball town. We were there for one week and saw 3 games - at Wrigley Field, at the White Sox stadium (Guaranteed Rate Field at the time, a great place to see a game, the only bad thing about it is the name), and then we drove to nearby Milwaukee to see the Brewers at American Family Field (also a shitty name).
We did take the red line to Wrigley. Station was about 3 blocks from our hotel and drops you off right in front of the stadium. Had an absolute blast and I don't even like baseball lol
Yeah... when I was there last, it was winter, shit weather, and everyone was in a nice cozy blues bar drinking and relaxing. I think the weather promotes that scene.