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Saham Indonesia Support IDsaham på Facebook Uang Zimbabwe 100Trilliun 1 lembar Rp 100.000 (blm ongkir) Buruan lager terbat Harga naik terus. hub: 081362054088 Saham Chat 22-Feb-17 19:42 Bekskicoot gjest: AHAAYYY SAHAM JAGOAN FPNI MALAH NGGAK NGACENG COYY AHAAYY ANE LIBUR DOELOE AH NTAR KALO UDH DIATAS GOPEK ANE BROMO LAGEE DEH AHAAYYY COYYYY 22-Feb-17 19:36 kalijodo gjest : Rpta kalijodo bisa jadi karena gubernurnya berani dan tegas. Jakarta butuh org tegas. coba klo gubernurnya manis manis dan santun kapan jadinya..paling2 masih tempat pelacuran. oh ya..bisa jadi sih ntar lebaran kuda .. 22-Feb-17 19:29 holde .. drømme gjest: megapolitan. kompasread2017022217083711ahok. disambut. warga. saat. datang. ke. rptra. kalijodo ------- Kok Anies gak ke kalijodo sambil tanya warga: Akkurat nå har du det. ha ha ha ha 22-feb-17 19:15 bego satu gjest: Trus begonya lagi. pas dia bikin angket. orgnya lagi cuti. hahaha. go nafsu doch bikin angket. nafsunya keliatan. wakwakwak. ketahuaaan. Loee..nye loco aja. klo kegedean nafsu. wakwak. 22-Feb-17 19:11 Begynnelsen til dipelihara-gjest: Ente begynte med å satse. Du orang pesantren er i gang med forumet. Så du må ha en god lag. Vi har lyst til å ha en god jobb. Jeg kan ikke ha det bra. 17 19:07 Bego dipelihara gjest: Putusan pengadilan belum selesai somua minta angket. Luk du, har du det du har hatt, så lørdag 22-Feb-17 19:06 makar gjest: Hakhak. Niggak ape ape gua dungu dan goblok. tapi nggak ada niat mau makar. karena gua lugu. 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Berita Bursa Saham Lainnya Kommentarsøkonomi di Saham Chat 22-Feb-17 17:18 INVESTORASING: JSX Property Index berada di Støtte yg kuat sekali yaitu antara 500 enn 518. Nah satu sektor yan juga diluar sektor Komo secara besar naik ke depan adalah Sektor Eiendom og sementara tertinggal cukup besar. Indeksen er det som helst etter 20 år. Harga tanah naik terus mener at seluruh RI, det er en god tid, og infrastrukturen er bedre enn deg, og du er sementere med deg selv, og du er sikker på at du lytter til deg selv. Jadi semua Emiten Egenskapen er viktig for deg, og det er vellykket at du har den beste strukturen i stedet for. Satu di antara Emiten itu adalah ELTY. Karena inflasi mendorong tambahan membeli Saham dan bukan parkir Modal tambahan di Deposito, maka saham yg sementara di dagang di bawah Eksklusiv avtale fra hjemmet, khusus juga saham Eiendom. Secara historis pernah terjadi selalu begitu. Dan di RI situasi bukan seperti di banyak negara lainya. Di RI masih jutaan Orang belum punya Rumah, Villa atau Apartemen sendiri. Kemudian sesuai Posting yg lama, sterk kjøp. Kemudian terima kasih juga kepada semua Pihak er en av de beste i verden enn i verden. Terima kasih banyak Kami heran. Bakry sdh kerja keras supaya anda nggak merugih ke depan dan pemegang saham yg relevant juga demikan. Kami juga demikian secara langsung enn tidak langsung sejak awal. Tapi ternyata masih ada Tikus yg kecil, yg membuka mulut iri settiap kali terjadi fortjeneste tar midlertidig sangat ke dalam. Dia Adalah Orang asli RI. Dia mau Orang RI sendiri pada akhirnya kehilangan Modal Orang den seharusnya keluar dari RI enn tinggal di Negara lain. Namun apakah Negara, men det var ikke så lenge siden, men det var ikke noe negativt å si om Yudas Iskariot Kalau nggak di terima di manapun, untung masih ada Antarctic. Di sana dia boleh main2 dengan Pinguin. Selamat-suksess. H13. 22-feb-17 15:47 yokoono gjest: Kurang 4menit marked lukket DEWA masih bertahan di harga 70 22-feb-17 13:22 admggajahtunggal: INDY awas bursa ASIA mulai Hijau 22-Feb-17 08:20 prediksi gjest: Jokowi harus waspada ada upaya makar yang didanai. oleh CIA enn antek usa arabisk saudi terkait kontrakt tambang emas di papua enn bareka mendanai sejenis FPI FUI er en av de mest kjente. BIN agar di sebar di timika papua karena CIA mulai. provokasi warga sana dengan. isu PHK. Jokowi jadi ancaman bagi. kepentingan USA. Jokowi patut. mewaspadai aksi merongrong kewibawaan pemerintah via ormas ormas yang didanai CIA dan. antek usa yaitu arabisk saudiarabisk bawa rombong staff oleh raja arabisk saudi. ihsg 22-feb-17 08:05 Philipp Lahm gjest: Waspada saham batubara Kull turun 2 8453 penutupan tadi malam menghentikan berømtheten 4 hari di bursa Newscatle. 21-Feb-17 18:16 Uttak gjest: JOKOWI AGAR. JANGAN. MAU BICARA DENGAN. PRESDIR FREEPORT DI USA. JOKOWI MINTA UNDANG PEMEGANG SAHAMNYA Hr. CARL ICAHN. bahas kontrak dan. smelter agar presdir di usa, du kan også se Carl Icahn. Ihsg 21-Feb-17 18:12 Uttak gjest: JOKOWI AGAR. UNDANG PEMEGANG SAHAM FREEPORT DI USA. UNDANG Mr CARL ICAHN ke ISTANA BOGOR bikarakan halmsmelter. Ihsg 21-Feb-17 15:53 ​​BUMI LQ45-gjest: BUMI satu2nya saham LQ45 tetapi tak bisa transaksi di account margin. Coba tanya ke BEI. Ada apa. Kmrin saya sudah infokan dimari 21-Feb-17 13:28 INVESTORASING: GJØR INGEN DENGEN MELDINGEN SOM DAN TAHUN YG LALA. DOID melunasi 8 triliun utang dan dengan demikianen m TP ke depan sebesar 2000 akan jadi. Seperti biasa diluar pendapat dari pihak2 yg tidak relevant, pemegang saham yg relevant mendukung secara penuh DOID. Kemudian harga batubara naik lagi ke atas 84 USD per tonn enn sekarang karena Eropa bbrp negara mau keluar dari Euro, kusu Negara Perancis dulu, maka infarki naik tambahan dan harga komo juga, sehingga banyak analist akan salah lagi seperti sebelumnya. Apalagi lagi Trump nggak mau USD yg kuat. BUMI sdh lebih maju sebelumnya dan dengan harga Batubara ya kean akan ke atas 100 USD per tonn på leibih, nettoresultatet bisa menjadi kira2 500 dollar i USD, sannsynligvis ikke mer enn 30 dager siden sisa utang yg ada. Walaupun masih bbrp hal seperti biaya produksi harus di koreksi ke depan, m TP 2000 tidak akan sulit utk ke depan. Yg menarik ada juga nettoresultat av DEWA yg akan ratusan naik ke depan. Kemudisk UNSP akan suksess ke depan setelah suksess dengan reverse stock. Sama nanti dengan ENRG. Semakin lama semakin IDX er en av de beste i verden, men det er ikke så bra som mulig. Pada waktu merka sdh keluar secara 100, men saham2 er det et godt valg. H13. 21-feb-17 10:18 kpud jakarta gjest: WARGA MENUNTUT COPOT KETUA KPUD JAKARTA YANG TIDAK UAFHENDIG DAN KEPERGOK BERTEMU ANIS SAAT COBLOS ULANG DAN BUKTI KETUA KPUD DKI MAIN MATA DENGAN ANIES. COPOT. KETUA KPUD DKI. Ihsg 21-Feb-17 10:10 Kvinne gjest: Salam ihsg. Smoga hari ini naik meski ada sidang ahok. Dalam hal ii ahok selalu menghadiri sidang dan taat hukum. Menurut sy ini adalah sikap islam. Beda dg RS yg suka mangkir dg alasan yg sptnya dibuat2. Sdh gitu bw rombongan lg jd tdk gentlement. Bg mana ini Kok bikin malu islam. Katanya mau bela islam. Coba tunjukan lewat pribadi RS dulu. Pantaskah 21-feb-17 04:23 gambarou: thn kemarin BRI luncurin satelit habis 3t klo ga salah. Trus Telkomsel ga mau kalah dia luncurin satelit juga. gile gile enak bgt ngerampok ny ya. Banyak yg ga trist så lenge du har hatt det, så lenge du har det, så lenge du har det. kalau Anda punya initiated untuk Menganalisa sederhana saja pasti Ogsa sada bahwa bumi tdk bisa di tembus dari dalam. konkret nya begynnelse. kalau Anda menemukan kejanggalan dari bumi bulat yang bisa di bantah sudah pasti teori yg selama ini di gembar gemborkan sampai dibuatkan imitasi universal studio (bumi bulat) itu semua h o a x. gile lu ndro. Lari Kemana, du er 3 år gammel. emiten BRI aja cuma mandek harga segono. huayam. Telkom juga thu. og dah, ihsg 21-Feb-17 04:11 gambarou: du er glad for at du ikke har noe å gjøre, men du kan ikke se noe om det. kalau di sistim ekonomi Pilkada putaran 1 er en trilema putaran kedua dilema. Semoga indeks tdk ikut2an dilema. xixixixixixi nih link new yg bilang ahok tumbang cek ke TKP aja ---- m. kompasianaangrybirdpdip-sudah-tahu-ahok-di-atas-kertas-akan-kalah-di-pilgub-dki58aa3b6481afbde43c1f768e 21-feb-17 00:16 tegas saja gjest: kasus. kontrak freeport bisa jadi adu kjedelig og ikke ha det JOKOWI vs TRUMP. IHSG. JOKOWI HARUS PANGGIL PEMEGANG SAHAM. MAYORITAS CARL ICAHN, og de siste årene har realistis Karen CARL ICAHN orang bisnis. semua bisa dinegosiasikan. 20-Feb-17 22:05 AMCallAnonymous guest: Hvordan sammenligne cimb med panin Sammenlign egenkapital og markedsverdi. 127867Chicago er en stor by med flere distriktsartikler som inneholder sightseeing, restaurant, uteliv og overnattingslister, se på hver av dem. Chicago ligger i Midtvesten. Det er den tredje største byen i USA med en befolkning som nærmer seg 3 millioner. Chicago er en stor levende by og et storbyområde som sprawls over 10.874km. Den er kjent for husmusikk, blues, jazz, komedie, shopping, restauranter, arkitektur og fine kulturattraksjoner. Som midtpunktet til Midtvesten. Chicago er lett å finne sine pittoreske skyline samtaler over vannet i store ferskvann Lake Michigan, et imponerende syn som snart avslører verdensklasse museer for kunst og vitenskap, miles av sandstrender, store parker, offentlig kunst. og kanskje den fineste downtown samlingen av arkitektur i verden. Med et vell av ikoniske severdigheter og nabolag å utforske, er det nok å besøke uker eller måneder uten å se slutten. Forbered deg på å dekke mye bakken: betydningen av Chicago er bare funnet i bevegelse, gjennom dens undergrunner og arkaiske forhøyede baner, og øyne hevet til himmelen. Rediger distrikter Den mest besøkte delen av Chicago er dens store sentrale område, som inneholder nabolag som Downtown, River North, Streeterville, Old Town, Gold Coast, Central Station, South Loop, Printers Row og den greske byen blant andre. Samlet inneholder disse nabolagene mange skyskrapere, attraksjoner og høyt rangerte institusjoner. Men det finnes også mange attraksjoner i byens andre distrikter. Chicago består av Downtown, North Side, South Side og West Side - hver side oppkalt etter sin retning fra sentrum. The Loop er det økonomiske og kulturelle området som ligger i sentrum. Nord-, Sør - og Vestsidene er ikke nabolag selv, de inneholder hver for seg mange og varierte nabolag. Chicagoans har en tendens til å identifisere sterkt med deres nabolag, noe som gjenspeiler et ekte sted for hjem og kultur. Chicago distrikt Chicagos skyline sett fra Millennium Park Forstå rediger Chicago var kjent som et fint sted å finne en vilt løk hvis du var medlem av Potawatomi stammen, som bodde i dette området i Illinois før europeiske bosettere ankom. Det var for det meste sumper, prærie og gjørme lenge forbi etableringen av Fort Dearborn i 1803 og innlemmelse som en by i 1833. Byen tok senere sivilingeniørprosjekter av enestående skala for å etablere arbeidsavløp, selv om kretsløpet i Chicago-elven skulle reversere for å holde urent vann ut av byens drikkeforsyning og stoppe bygninger fra å synke tilbake til sumpene, og det var bare de første årtier. I 1871 var den hensynsløse veksten av byen et syn å se, full av støy, gotisk lunacy og travle handel. Men den 8. oktober slo fru Olearys ku til tross for en lantern i de overfylte innvandrerkvartene i West Side, og Great Chicago Fire begynte. Det spredes raskt gjennom den tørre prærien, drepte 300 og ødela nesten hele byen. Stenen Vanntårn i Nær Nord-området er den mest kjente overlevende strukturen. Men byen tok tak i denne ødeleggelsen som en mulighet til å gjenoppbygge større enn før, til og med oppfatte skyskraperen i Chicago som selvsagt ville bli plukket opp og utnyttet i byer verden over i dag. I tillegg vil flere arkitekter og byplanleggere av Chicago fortsette å bli legender av moderne arkitektur. I slutten av 1800-tallet var Chicago den raskest voksende byen i verden. På toppen av gjenfødelsen var Chicago kjent som The White City. Kulturer fra hele verden ble kalt til 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition, som Chicago slo New York til verten, for å vitne til Louis Sullivans, Daniel Burnhams og hans fremtid. Krem av hvete, brus, gatelys og sikker elektrisitet, faksmaskinen, og den nye oppfinnelsen kalt pariserhjulet skreddersyr kolossen som nå bor på kysten av Lake Michigan. Da hver vei en gang førte til Roma, førte hvert tog til Chicago. Carl Sandburg kalte Chicago Hog Slagter for Verden for sine storfebåter og plass på nasjonens middagsplate. Sandburg kalte det også City of the Big Shoulders. noterer de høye bygningene i skyskraperens fødested og byens hevede hode sang så stolt over å være i live og grov og sterk og listig. Men Chicago er en by uten kortere navn på kallenavn. Fred Fishers 1922 sang (best kjent i Frank Sinatras-utgivelsen) kaller det That Toddlin Town. hvor på State Street, den store gaten. de gjør ting de ikke gjør på Broadway. Det er også referert av utallige bluesstandarder som Sweet Home Chicago. Chicago er også kjent som The Second City. som refererer til gjenoppbyggingen etter brannen den nåværende byen er bokstavelig talt den andre Chicago, etter den som nesten brant ned i 1871. Monikeren har sittende fast da Chicago hadde lenge holdt nasjonens nest største by. Og mange kjenner kallenavnet fra Chicagos store komedie teater Second City i Old Town, som har levert utallige talent til TV Saturday Night Live og mange sitcoms. Under Forbudet æra, Chicagos kriminelle verden, emblemisert av navn som Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson, og senere Sam Giancana, kjørte nesten byen. Den lokale politiske verden hadde knapt mer legitimitet i en by hvor velkomstopprøringen var høyest blant de døde, og deres kjæledyr, og dommens kapteiner spredte ordet for å stemme tidlig, stemme ofte. Selv Sandburg anerkjente den ubarmhjertige strømmen av vice som løp under overflaten av den optimistiske byen. Chicago er også kjent som The Windy City. Å vandre rundt i byen, kan du mistenke at dette kallenavnet kom fra vindene fra Lake Michigan, som til tider kan gjøre for noen vindfulle dager. Sannheten blir fortalt, Chicago er langt fra å være for blåsig. Faktisk, ifølge United States National Climatic Data Center, står Chicago ikke høyt på listen over vindbyer. Opprinnelsen til ordtaket Windy City kommer fra politikken noen sier at det kan ha blitt møtt av rivaler som New York City som en nedsettende referanse da de to byene sloss for 1893 Worlds Fair, som Chicago ultimatley vant. Andre sier at begrepet stammer fra byens sterke politiske klima. Endelig er byen også kjent som The City That Works som fremmes av borgmesteren Richard M. Daley, som er her for tiden, som refererer til Chicagos arbeidstradisjon og sin vilje til å takle store borgerlige prosjekter. Daley og hans far, tidligere borgmester Richard J. Daley, ble kontinuerlig stemt inn på kontoret for mange vilkår og styrt byen i flere tiår. Som andre produksjons byer som Cleveland. Detroit. og Buffalo gikk i nedgang, Chicago trives, forvandler seg fra en by av kultur og produksjon til en by med kultur og økonomi. Chicago huser nå verdens største fremtidige børser (Chicago Mercantile Exchange). Med Richard M. Daley bestemmer seg for ikke å løpe for borgmester igjen på grunn av sin syvende kone, og tidligere hvite husets stabschef Rahm Emanuel, som dro fra denne posten til å bli borgmester i Chicago, valgte byen sin første Daley-mindre administrasjon med Emanuel siden ordføreren Richard M. Daley var på kontoret fra april 1989 til mai 2011. Mens byen har mange flotte attraksjoner i sitt enorme sentrum, bor mange Chicagoans og spiller utenfor det sentrale distriktet også. Reisende går også til byens pulserende nabolag for å nyte det lokale nattelivet, prøve det brede spekteret av fantastisk bespisning, og se andre severdigheter som er en del av Chicago. Takket være byens massive kollektivtrafikksystem, som omfatter over 140 Chicago Transit Authority-tunnelbanestasjoner, et eget bysurban Metra-jernbanenettverk og bussruter krysser over hver eneste blokk fra hverandre, er alle deler av Chicago virkelig tilgjengelige. Klima redigere Vinterutsikt i Chicago. Så langt som Chicagos vær går, kan vi bare si at Chicago er en enorm by, så ting har en tendens til å bli blåst ut av portjonen mer enn de ville i andre byer, som inkluderer været. Vintrene i Chicago er faktisk kalde, men det samme kan sies for de fleste USA fra Maine til Utah, med unntak av ekstreme sør. Faktisk får Chicago mindre nedbør (snø og regn) om vinteren enn East Coast byer som New York City eller Boston. Og selv om Chicago er kaldt om vinteren, er Midwestern nabo Minneapolis generelt kaldere om vinteren. Chicagos somre er ikke mye varmere enn østkysten, og definitivt ikke så varmt som det sørlige USA. Det er en god tid å bli hatt i noen sesonger i Chicago, og sommeren tilbyr en rekke parader, festivaler og arrangementer. Vintermånedene fra desember til mars vil se kalde temperaturer med kaldt vindkjølefaktorer. Snø er vanligvis begrenset til en håndfull tunge stormer per sesong, med noen få lette støv mellomliggende og litt mer langs innsjøen i den lokale parlansen, det er innsjøseffekt snø. Chicago er en by som er godt vant til vintersesongen, så bytjenester og offentlig transport er svært lite sannsynlig å stoppe. Et lite kjent faktum: Det er flere dager med en maksimal temperatur på 80-84F (27-29C) enn noe annet fem-graders område, dette inkluderer vintermånedene. Chicagos sommerdager kan føles så varme som Honolulu eller så fuktig og klebrig som Miami. Under en tilfeldig sommer kan temperaturene i juli eller august gå over det normale gjennomsnittet på 83F og bli varmt og fuktig med dewpoints som kan lignes på de som finnes nærmere Mexicogolfen. Imidlertid er disse varmebølgene ikke for hele varigheten av sommeren, men vanligvis i flekker av dager. Sommerkvelder er vanligvis rimelige, og du får noen grader pusterom langs innsjøen i den lokale parlansen igjen, det er kulere ved sjøen. Chicago har flere måneder med fint vær. Juni og september er veldig hyggelige april og mai er ganske fine, selv om tordenvær kan skje plutselig. Juli og August er ok så lenge en varmebølge ikke har truffet hele landet. Selv om det kan være en liten chill i luften, kalles oktober sjelden for mer enn en lett pels og noen dager er det ikke engang nødvendig. Og i noen år overlapper langvarige milde sommertemperaturer til november. Litteratur redigere Chicago litteratur fant sine røtter i byens tradisjon for lucid, direkte journalistikk, utlån til en sterk tradisjon for sosialrealisme. Følgelig fokuserer mest bemerkelsesverdige Chicago-fiksjon på selve byen, med sosial kritikk som holder exultation i sjakk. Her er et utvalg av Chicagos mest berømte verk om seg selv: Karen Abbotts Sin i Second City er en nylig bestselger om Chicagos distrikt, Levee, og noen av personlighetene involvert: gangsterere, korrupte politikere og to søstre som kjørte den mest elitebordeel i byen. Nelson Algrens Chicago: City on the Make er et prosa-dikt om smugene, El-sporene, Neon og dykkestengene, Chicago's skjønnhet og grusomhet. Det er best spart for etter en tur, når minst tjue linjer vil ha deg enraptured i anerkjennelse. Saul Bellows Adventures of Augie March kartlegger det jødiske Chicagoans lange drivende liv og hans utallige eksentriske bekjente gjennom tidlig på det 20. århundre: vokser opp i det polske nabolaget Humboldt Park. cavorting med arvinger på Gold Coast. studerer ved University of Chicago, flykting unions thugs i Loop. og tar den merkelige omveien for å henge ut med Trotsky i Mexico mens eagle-jakt gigantiske leguaner på hesteryggen. Denne boken har lovlig påstand om å være Chicago epic (for praktiske formål, det betyr at du ikke vil fullføre den på flyet). Gwendolyn Brooks A Street i Bronzeville var samlingen av dikt som lanserte karrieren til den berømte Chicago-poetessen, fokusert på ambisjoner, skuffelser og dagligliv for dem som bodde i 1940-tallet Bronzeville. Det er langt ute, så du må sannsynligvis lese disse diktene i en bredere samling, for eksempel hennes valgte dikt. Sandra Cisneros House on Mango Street er en meksikansk-amerikansk kommende roman som omhandler en ung latinsk jente, Esperanza Cordero, vokser opp i Chicago Chicano-ghettoen. Theodore Dreisers søster Carrie er en hjørnestein av turneringen av det 20. århundre Chicago litterære renessansen, en fortelling om en landpike i den store umoralske byen, filler til rikdom og tilbake igjen. Stuart Dybeks The Coast of Chicago er en samling av fjorten fantastiske korthistorier om å vokse opp i Chicago (i stor grad i Pilsen og Little Village) i en stil som blander gritty med drømmene. John Guzlowskis Lightning and Ash forteller at forfatterne opplever å vokse opp i innvandrer - og DP-nabolagene rundt Humboldt Park i Chicago, og snakker om jødiske maskinvareforhandlere med Auschwitz-tatoveringer på håndleddene, polske kavalerifolk som fortsatt sørger for sine døde hester og kvinner som gikk fra Sibir til Iran for å unnslippe russerne. Erik Larsons Devil i den hvite byen er en bestselgende pophistorie om 1893 Colombian Exposition. Det handler også om seriemorderen som stalket byen samtidig. For en rett historie av utstillingen og også arbeidernes paradis i Pullman, prøv James Gilberts utmerkede perfekte byer: Chicagos Utopias fra 1893. Audrey Niffeneggers The Time Travellers Wife er en nylig kjærlighetshistorie satt i Chicago nattklubber, museer og biblioteker. Mike Roykos Boss er den endelige biografien til borgmester Richard J. Daley og politikk i Chicago, skrevet av den elskede sena Tribune-kolonnen. Amerikansk farao (Cohen og Taylor) er en god faglig behandling av det samme emnet. Carl Sandburgs Chicago Poems er uten tvil den mest berømte samlingen av dikt om Chicago av sin egen bar av arbeiderklassen. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle sitter blant kanonene i både Chicago litteratur og USAs arbeidshistorie for sin muckraking-stil avbildning av ørkenen opplevd av litauiske innvandrere som arbeider i Union Stockyards på Chicagos Southwest Side. Richard Wrights Native Son er en klassisk Chicago nabolagshistorie satt i Bronzeville og Hyde Park om en ung, fattig, svart gutt som ble fortvilet av den rasisme som ble forankret i det amerikanske samfunnet på den tiden. Filmer rediger Union Station. Denne togstasjonen brukes i en scene i filmen The Untouchables. Hold deg til dine barnevogner Chicago er Americas tredje mest produktive filmindustri etter Los Angeles og New York, og det har vært score på mange filmer og tv-serier som er filmet her. Her er en veldig liten liste over noen svært Chicago-sentriske filmer som har blitt produsert i byen. Dette er bare noen få: Ferris Buellers Day Off (John Hughes, 1986). Drømmen om de nordlige forstedene: å være ung, smart og løs for en dag i Chicago. Ferris og venner går gjennom det gamle Loop-teaterdistriktet, tar et spill på Wrigley Field, og nyter følelsen av uovervinnelighet som Chicago deler med sine favoritt sønner når alt er bra. Eventyr i Barnevakt (Chris Columbus, 1987). Baksiden av Ferris Bueller farene som venter på suburbanite i Loop om natten, inkludert minneverdige turer til lavere Michigan Avenue og nært med Chicago skyline. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980). Sannsynligvis Chicagos favorittfilm om seg selv: bluesmusikk, hvite menn i svarte dragter, et oppdrag fra Gud, samvittigheten som hver Chicago-hustler bærer uten tvil, og nesten sikkert den største biljakt som noen gang er filmet. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987). Med et firkantet manuskript av David Mamet, er dette en fortelling av Chicagos sentrale fabel av god mot ondskap: Eliot Ness og den legendariske takknemligheten til Al Capone. Ingen film (bortsett fra kanskje The Blues Brothers) har gjort bedre bruk av så mange Chicago-steder, spesielt Union Station (barnevognen), Chicago Cultural Center (taket) og LaSalle Street canyon. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000). John Cusack vurderinger mislyktes forhold fra high school på Lane Tech til college i Lincoln Park og muses over dem i turer gjennom Uptown, River North, over hele byen på CTA, hans rekordbutikk i rock snob-miljøet i Wicker Park, og tilbake Endelig til sin rekord-swamped leilighet i Rogers Park. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005) og dens oppfølger The Dark Knight (2008). Gjør spektakulær bruk av L, Chicago-handelshuset, Chicago-skyskraperne, Loop at night og lavere Wacker Drive. Den gjenopplivede handlingsserien gir endelig den imponerende kraften og utrykkelige korrupsjonen i Gotham City hvor den tilhører, i Chicago. Noen andre er Harrison Ford vs den enarmede i The Fugitive. CTA vs sann kjærlighet i mens du sov. Autobots vs Decepticons i Transformers 3. den største Patrick Swayze hillbilly ninja vs italiensk mobfilm av all tid, Next of Kin. og den ydmyke John Candy-filmen Only The Lonely som fanger den sørlige irske mentaliteten, kjærligheten og komforten til nabolagets dykkestenger, samt Chicago-arbeiderklassen og politisk makt, tema med gjentatt linje. Noen ganger er det godt å være en politimann . Røykingredigering Røyking er forbudt i henhold til statlig lov på alle restauranter, barer, nattklubber, arbeidsplasser og offentlige bygninger. Det er også forbudt innen femten meter av inngang, vindu eller utgang til et offentlig sted, og på CTA-togstasjoner. Bøten for å bryte forbudet kan variere fra 100 til 250. Turistinformasjon rediger Chicagos turistinformasjon tilbyr kart, brosjyrer og annen informasjon. Chicago Cultural Center besøkssenter. 77 E Randolph St. 1 312 744-8000. 1. M-Sa 10 AM-5 PM, Su 11 AM-4PM (stengt 1. januar, 4. november (Thanksgiving), 25. desember). Et sentralt sted å plukke opp en rekke nyttige, gratis materialer. Kulturhuset selv gjør et godt første stopp på turen, med gratis, verdt kunst og historiske utstillinger gjennom hele året. 160edit Macys på State Street besøksinformasjonssenter. 111 State St. 1 877 244-2246. 2. Samme som Macys butikk (lukket 1 jan, 4 november) (Thanksgiving), 25. desember). 160edit Get in edit Med flyreversjon Chicago (IATA. CHI for alle flyplasser) serveres av to store flyplasser: OHare International Airport og Midway Airport. Det er rikelig med drosjer både til og fra sentrum, men de er ganske dyre, spesielt i rushtiden. Forvent oppover 40 for OHare og 30 for Midway. CTA-tog gir direkte service til begge større flyplasser for 2,25 fra hvor som helst i byen raskere enn en taxi i rushtid og mye billigere. Mange store hoteller tilbyr gratis skyttelbusser til en eller begge flyplasser, eller kan ordne en for en kostnad (15-25) med forhåndsvarsel. OHare edit OHare International Airport (IATA. ORD) er 17 miles (27km) nordvest for sentrum og serverer mange internasjonale og innenlandske transportører. United Airlines har den største tilstedeværelsen her (ca. 50) etterfulgt av American Airlines med om lag 40, transatlantiske transportører inkluderer British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia og KLM. De fleste koblingsflyvninger for mindre byer i Midtvesten løper gjennom OHare. Det er en av de største flyplassene i verden, og det har alltid vært beryktet for forsinkelser og avbestillinger. Dessverre er det for langt nordvest for de fleste reisende som sitter fast over natten for å gå inn i byen. Som et resultat er det nok av hoteller i OHare-området. Se OHare-artikkelen for oppføringer. CTA Blue Line går mellom Loop og OHare hvert 15. minutt, 24 timer i døgnet og 7 dager i uken. Mye reparasjonsarbeid har blitt gjennomført på Blue-linjen, og turen fra OHare til Loop tar nå 35-50 minutter. OHare-stasjonen er enden av linjen og er i hovedsak i kjelleren i OHare-flyplassen. Å gå fra plattformen til billett tellere bør ta 5-10 minutter for Terminaler 2 eller 3, litt mer for Terminal 1, og mye lenger for International Terminal 5 (Det er nødvendig å ta den frie folkbevegeren for overføring). Prisen på toget på OHare er 5 - i motsetning til 2,25 andre steder - men det er fortsatt et røverkjøp i forhold til en taxi og kan til og med være raskere når trafikken er dårlig. Midway edit Midway International Airport (IATA. MDW) er 10 miles (16km) sørvest for sentrum. Midway tjener primært lavprisbåter, med unntak av en håndfull Delta-flyreiser, og er den største flyplassen for Southwest Airlines. Hvis det er et alternativ for turen, er Midway mer kompakt, mindre overfylt, har færre forsinkelser, og vanligvis billigere. Og selvfølgelig er det betydelig nærmere sentrum. Flyselskaper som betjener Chicago-Midway (MDW): CTA Orange Line-toget går mellom Loop og Midway på rundt 25 minutter. Det er en lukket tunnel som forbinder stasjonen og flyplassen, men det tar ca 10-15 minutter å gå fra den ene til den andre. Det finnes en rekke hoteller som er gruppert rundt Midway, for å se Southwest Side-artikkelen for oppføringer. Andre rediger Chicago Executive Airport (IATA. PWK) er ni miles nord for OHare, fungerer generelt og næringslivssektoren, og er den tredje travleste flyplassen i Illinois. Omtrent tre hundre fly er basert på feltet og ca 200 000 start og landinger skjer årlig. Air taxi og fly charter selskaper som Jetset Charter. Monarch Air Group. Mercury Jets flyver en rekke private charterfly og - fly, fra charter luksus Gulfstreams ned til økonomiske stempel tvillinger for små grupper og enkeltpersoner. Milwaukee s General Mitchell International Airport 3 (IATA. MKE) serveres med 7 Amtrak-tog per dag (6 på søndag), og Hiawatha-tjenesten har en 95-til-tiden vurdering. Turen fra Chicago Union Station til Mitchell Airport Station er omtrent en time og 15 minutter. Det er også busser fra Mitchell flyplass til Chicago OHare Airport. Med buss rediger Burlington Trailways. 630 W Harrison St. 4. 24 timer. Flere daglige busser dro til Davenport, Iowa City, Des Monies og Omaha til konkurransedyktige priser. Videreforbindelser til Denver. 160edit Greyhound. 630 W Harrison St. 1 312 408-5800. 5. 24 timer. Svært hyppig service til destinasjoner i hele Midtvesten med forbindelser til de fleste av USA, Canada og Mexico. Hovedterminalen ligger nær det sørvestlige hjørnet av Loop. Det er sekundære terminaler på 95thDan Ryan røde linjestasjon og Cumberland blå linjestasjon. 160edit Indian Trails. (på Greyhound Station), 6. Hyppig service til East Lansing, Grand Rapids med videre destinasjoner tilgjengelig. Daglig service til Michigans Upper Peninsula forbinder via Greyhound i Milwaukee. Wifi og strømforsyninger ombord. 160edit megabus. 1-877-462-6342. 7. Express buss til Ann Arbor. Atlanta. Chattanooga. Cincinnati. Cleveland. Columbia. Columbus. Dallas. Des Moines. Detroit. East Lansing. Grand Rapids. Indianapolis. Iowa City. Kansas City. Liten stein. Louisville. Madison. Memphis. Milwaukee. Minneapolis. Nashville. New York. Omaha. State College. St. Louis. St Paul og Toledo. Double Deck Coaches med WiFi, toaletter, strømuttak og seter som starter på 1. 160edit Peoria Charter Coach Company. OHare flyplass. 1 800-448-0572. 8. Tilbyr daglig service mellom flere høyskoler og byer rundt Illinois-området. Vanlige destinasjoner er Peoria, Normal, Champaign, Chicago. 160edit Wisconsin Coach. OHare flyplass. 1 877-324-7767. 9. Tilbyr 14 busser daglig, avgang hver time, fra OHare til Sørøst-Wisconsin og Milwaukee, inkludert Milwaukee flyplass. ORD: 26. 160edit Med tog redigere Tre nivåer i Loop Chicago er historisk jernbanenavn i hele USA. I dag, Amtrak. 1 800 872-7245, bruker den magisterielle Union Station (Canal St og Jackson Blvd) som navet i Midwestern-ruter, noe som gjør Chicago til en av de mest praktiske amerikanske byene å besøke med tog, og betjener flertallet av passasjerbanen avstandsruter, med alternativer fra nesten alle store amerikanske byer. Med sin massive hovedhall, ærverdige historie og kinematiske trinn er Union Station verdt et besøk, selv om du ikke kommer inn med tog. De fleste (men ikke alle) Metra forstadsbanene kjører fra Union Station og nærliggende OgilvieNorthwestern Station (Canal St og Madison St), som ligger vest for Loop. Noen sørlige linjer løper fra stasjoner på østsiden av Loop. Forstedene tog går så langt som Kenosha. Aurora. og joliet mens South Shore-linjen løper gjennom Indiana så langt som South Bend. Flere CTA busser samler seg om de to stasjonene, og Loop CTA-togene ligger innen gangavstand. Med bil rediger Chicagoans referere til noen motorveier etter navnene sine, ikke tallene som brukes til å identifisere dem på skiltene, vil du se oppført på US-motorveien. Så du må forplikte både navn og nummer til minne. I-55 (Stevenson Expressway) tar deg fra sørvestbyen og sørvest forstedene til sentrum av Chicago. I-9094 (kalt The Dan Ryan sør for sentrum) kommer inn fra Indiana i øst (via Chicago Skyway - I-90 og Bishop Ford Freeway - I-94) og fra sentrale Illinois (via I-57). I-90 (kalt The Kennedy nord for sentrum) kommer inn fra nordvestbyen og nordvest forstedene. I-94 (kalt Edens Expressway) kommer inn fra nordsiden og de nordlige forstedene til sentrum. I-80 går sør for byen i øst-vest-retning, som knytter seg til flere nord-sør-motorveier. Illinois tollway, som i tillegg til I-90. består av I-88 som betjener vest forstedene, I-355 (kalt The Vets eller The Veterans Memorial Tollway) som forbinder Joliet med Schaumburg, og I-294 - Tri-staten som går fra sørsiden til langt nordvestsiden og passerer ved siden av OHare flyplass. Vær forberedt på tollbooths av til høyre side av tollway som koster ca 1,50 per messe, en mye lavere kostnad enn du finner på tolls i New York City eller Los Angeles-området. Når du reiser tollway, har du alltid noen få dollar i kontanter og mynter til å betale på booths, som er bemannet på mainline toll plazas. Hvis du ankommer sentrum fra sør på I-94 eller I-90. eller fra nord på I-9094. flott utsikt kan sees som du nærmer deg sentrum skyline. Hvis du kommer på I-55 fra sørvest, eller på I-290 (Eisenhower Expressway. Tidligere og noen ganger fremdeles kalt The Congress Expressway) fra vest, er skylinen også synlig. Hvis du kommer fra nord eller sør på Lake Shore Drive (US Highway 41), kommer en vakker introduksjon dag eller natt på hva som må være den vakreste hovedveien i verden. Kom deg rundt rediger CTA-tog rutekart Navigering Chicago er enkelt. Blokknummer er konsistente over hele byen. Standardblokker, med 100 adresser hver, er omtrent 18 av en kilometer lang. (Derfor er en kilometer tilsvarer en gatenummerforskjell på 800.) Hver gate er tildelt et nummer basert på avstanden fra nullpunktet til adressesystemet, krysset mellom State Street og Madison Street. En gate med et W (vest) eller E (øst) nummer løper nord-sør (indikerer hvor mange blokker øst eller vest for staten St. det faller), mens en gate med et N (nord) eller S (sør) nummer løper øst-vest (som angir hvor mange blokker nord eller sør for Madison St. det faller). Et gatenummer er vanligvis skrevet på gateskilt ved kryss, under gatenavnet. Større hovedveier er på hver mil (multipler på 800) og sekundære arterier på halv mil markeringene. Dermed er Western Ave ved 2400 W (3 miles vest for State Street) en nord-sør hovedvei, mens Montrose Ave på 4400 N er en øst-vest sekundær arterie. Generelt løper veier nord-sør og gatene går øst-vest, men det er mange unntak. (for eksempel 48th Street kan deretter etterfølges av 48. plass). I en samtale skiller Chicagoans sjelden mellom gatene, avenyer, boulevarder osv. Flere gater følger diagonale eller svingete veier gjennom byen som Clark St, Broadway, Milwaukee Ave, Archer Ave, Vincennes Ave og South Chicago Ave for å nevne en få. Interessant, var mange av de vinklede gatene i Chicago (inkludert Archer Ave. Clark Street og Lincoln Ave.) opprinnelig Native American-stier etablert lenge før Chicago var en by. Til fots rediger Downtown Chicago er veldig walkable, med brede fortau og minimal trengsel. Walkers looking to avoid cold, heat, rain and snow find the Chicago Pedway System to be helpful. It is a system of underground, ground-level, and above-ground passages that connect downtown buildings. By public transit edit The best way to see Chicago is by public transit. It is cheap (basically), efficient (at times), and safe (for the most part). The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) oversees the various public transit agencies in the Chicagoland area. You can plan trips online with the RTA trip planner or get assistance by calling 836-7000 in any local area code between 5am and 1am. The RTA also has an official partnership with Google Maps, which can provide routes with public transit. CTA edit The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) operates trains and buses in the city of Chicago and some of the suburbs. Put simply, the CTA is Chicago. It is a marvel and a beast, convenient and irreplaceable. Even if you have the option of driving while youre in town, no experience of Chicago is complete without a trip on the CTA. Fares are paid with a card system called Ventra . Passes can be bought and re-filled at kiosks in the lobby of every CTA station, or online. The kiosks accept cash and credit cards. You have the option of buying a pass, good for unlimited rides for a set number of days, or simply putting cash on the card. A Ventra card costs 5, but you can get that amount back as credit on your card if you register the card online. With an online account, you can add more credit to your card or buy additional unlimited ride passes as needed. Note that the system will use an unlimited rides pass before it uses any transit credit thats already on the card. Unlike many cities rail system that are set up on zone fares, Chicagos L network, regardless of how many miles youre travelling, only cost 2.25. At many stations, you can transfer to another L line at no additional cost. If you have exited the turnstiles, entering another CTA station or boarding a CTA bus costs an additional 0.25 with your transit card, and transferring a third time is free provided it is still within two hours of when you started the trip. Locals refer to Chicagos public train system as the L. (Most lines run on el - evated tracks get it) All train lines radiate from the Loop to every corner of the city. The Loop name originally referred to a surface-level streetcar loop, which pre-dated the elevated tracks. A CTA bus - note the numberdestination and symbol for wheelchair accessibility CTA train lines are divided by colors: Red, Green, Brown, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Orange and Pink. All lines lead to the Loop except the Yellow Line, which is a shuttle between the suburb of Skokie and the northern border of Chicago. The Red and Blue lines run 247, making Chicago and New York City the two American cities that offer 24-hour rail service running throughout their city limits. Hours for the other lines vary somewhat by the day, but as a general rule run from about 4:30am-1am. Before you travel, find out the name of the train station closest to your destination, and the color of the train line on which it is located. Once youre on-board, youll find route maps in each train car, above the door. The same map is also available online. The name signs on platforms often have the stations location in the street grid, e. g. 5900 N, 1200 W for Thorndale. There should be an attendant on duty at every train station. They cannot provide change or deal with money, but they can help you figure out where you need to go and guide you through using the machines. A CTA bus stop: note the symbols for wheelchair accessibility and late-night hours. Buses run on nearly every major street throughout the entire city, and in many cases, every four blocks apart. Look for the blue and white bus stop sign, which should show the route that the bus will take. Once inside, watch the front of the bus, a red LED display will list the names of the streets as they pass by, making it easy to know that your stop is approaching if youre unfamiliar with the city. Rides of any length cost 2 with a transit card or Chicago Card or 2.25 in cash. Chicago has a large and comprehensive bus system, and buses typically run frequently. This allows Chicagoans to go to bus stops and wait for the bus without even looking at bus schedules, as buses usually run every few minutes apart. The major bus routes run every 7-15 minutes apart during the morning and afternoon hours. In the evening, these same routes run about every 15-20 minutes apart. The less traveled bus routes may run about 15-20 minutes apart during the day. There are many bus routes that run 24 hours a day these are called OWL routes and the bus stop sign usually has a picture of an owl to belabor that point. Overnight OWL service is approximately every 30 minutes. (See individual district articles for major bus routes through different parts of the city.) If you have a web-enabled mobile device, the CTA runs a little godsend called the CTA Bus Tracker . which uses GPS to provide reliable, real-time tracking information for almost all bus routes. CTA buses accept transit cards but do not sell them. They also accept cash but do not provide change. Like any bus system, you pay exact fare or forfeit your change. In compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, all CTA buses and some train stations are accessible to wheelchairs. Wheelchair-accessible L stations are indicated by the international wheelchair symbol and have elevators or are at ground level. If you are trying to get to a place with a non-accessible station, there will be alternate routes by bus so contact the CTA for more information. Crime on the CTA is low, but as with any major urban area, travellers should be aware of their surroundings, especially when travelling in the wee hours of the night. Some L cars have a button and speaker for emergency communication with the driver, located in the center aisle of the car on the wall next to the door. This is for emergencies only: do not press this just to ask questions, as the driver is required to halt the train until the situation has been confirmed as resolved, and your fellow passengers will not be amused. Metra and South Shore edit Metra train on the way to the Loop Metra system map Metra 1 312 322-6777, runs commuter trains for the suburbs, providing service within Illinois, to Kenosha. Wisconsin. out west, and to the South Shore railroad, which provides service to South Bend. Indiana. Metra trains are fast, clean, and punctual, but unpleasantly crowded during rush hour. Generally, every car or every other car on the train has a bathroom. Metras Electric Line provides service to the convention center (McCormick Place), Hyde Park (Museum of Science and Industry, University of Chicago), and the Far Southeast Side s Pullman Historic District and Rainbow Beach. The Electric Line is fast . taking at most 15 minutes to reach Hyde Park from the Loop. Unfortunately, service outside of rush hours is infrequent (about oncehour), so be sure to check the schedules while planning your trip. Although there are plans to change this in the future, none of the commuter trains currently accept CTA transit cards as payment. The fare to McCormick Place and Hyde Park, however, is only 2. Buy your tickets before boarding the train at a window or one of the automated vending machines. You can buy a ticket on the train, but that comes with an extra 3ticket surcharge if the station youre leaving from had an open ticket window or an operational ticket machine. Ten-ride, weekly, and monthly passes are available. If you have a group of four or more people, it may be cheaper to purchase a ten-ride card and have all of your fares punched from that one card. If using Metra on Saturday andor Sunday, you can purchase an unlimited ride weekend pass for just 7. Keep in mind that Metra only accepts cash at this time. Pace edit Pace runs buses in the suburbs, although some routes do cross into the city, particularly in Rogers Park at the Howard (RedPurpleYellow Line) CTA station and the Far Northwest Side at the Jefferson Park (Blue Line) CTA station. Pace provides paratransit services should you need to go somewhere inconvenient via CTA. By car edit Avoid driving in downtown Chicago if at all possible. Traffic is heavy and garages in the Loop can cost as much as 35 per day. Free websites like ParkWhiz and ParkingPanda let you book off-street parking in advance after searching by location and price, which is often discounted. Other sites like ChiParking provide tips about where to park in different parts of Chicago. Although downtown streets are laid out on the grid, some streets have multiple levels which can confuse even the most hardened city driver. Even outside of the city center, street parking may not be readily available. If you do find a spot, check street signs to make sure that a) no residential permit is required to park, and b) parking is not disallowed during certain hours for street cleaning, rush hour or something along those lines. Parking restrictions are swiftly enforced in the form of tickets and towing be especially wary during snowy weather. On-street parking is handled by one-per-block kiosks, which will issue a slip for you to put in your front window. The kiosks will accept cash in the form of quarters ONLY, or credit cards. If the kiosk fails for any reason (such as the printer running out of paper), there should be a phone number to call to report it and ensure you dont receive a ticket. Be advised: talking on a handheld cell phone while driving is illegal . and the police will write you a ticket. If you need to take or make a call, use a hands-free headset or better yet, pull over. Drivers on the city expressways can be very aggressive. For those used to driving on expressways in the Northeast US or Southern California, this may simply be a reminder of home. For everyone else, though, it may be intimidating. Rental cars are available at both airports (OHare and Midway) as well as from numerous rental offices in the Loop as well as other locations scattered throughout various neighborhoods and in the suburbs. OHare has the most and largest rental car offices, with many agencies operating 24 hours. OHare hasnt built any sort of consolidated rental car facility, so youll need to proceed out the door from baggage claim and find the shuttle bus belonging to the rental company youre renting with and ride it to their office a few minutes away. (Check rates and book a reservation before boarding a bus.) Some companies are closer than others--the better companies are located just up the main airport access road, while the lower-end discount agencies might be several miles away around the other side of the airport. When returning, be sure to allow plenty of time to find the rental lot, return the car, and ride the bus back to the terminal. Midway now has a consolidated rental facility hosting the rental counters and parking areas for all major companies. A dedicated rental facility bus for all companies picks up from the lower level of the main terminal building once you arrive, find the counter for the company youre renting with. By taxi edit Your Name Here As in most cities, naming rights are all the rage. While official city tourism guides rush to comply, using the new names will earn an eye roll or an oblivious look from most Chicagoans (and cab drivers). A few of the worst offenders: Sears Tower 36 years after it was built, the Western Hemispheres tallest building was renamed the Willis Tower. For most Chicagoans, however, it is still and will always be the Sears Tower. Comiskey Park Winning the citys first World Series in nearly a century helped earn some acceptance for the US Cellular Field moniker (nicknamed the Cell), but its still regarded as profanity by the old-timers in Bridgeport. where the first Comiskey Park was built in 1910. Hollywood Beach The favorite beach of Chicagos gay and lesbian community was renamed Kathy Osterman Beach for one of the mayors Edgewater - based political friends who died of cancer. But more than a decade later only city signage knows it by that name everyone else still calls it by its original name, Hollywood Beach. Chicago has some of the least expensive taxi fares in the US for a major city. Taxis can be hailed from the street throughout the entire city, and are most plentiful in the downtown and North Side areas. Rates are regulated by the city fares are standard and the initial charge (flag pull) is 2.25 for the first 19 mile, then 0.20 for each additional 19 mile or 0.20 for each elapsed 36 seconds. There is a 1.00 fuel surcharge added to the initial charge. There is also a flat 1.00 charge for the second passenger, and then a 0.50 charge for each additional passenger after that (for example, if four people take a taxi together, there will be 2.00 in additional flat fees). Rides from OHare and Midway to outer suburbs cost an additional 50 over the metered fee. Give the driver the nearest major intersection to which you are heading (if you know it) and then the specific address. There is no additional charge for baggage or credit card use, although some drivers discourage credit card payments if the distance travelled is short. If you are outside of Downtown, North Side, Near West, or Near South neighborhoods, it may be less easy to find cabs from the street and easier just to call one. Taxis typically take 10-15 min from the time you call to arrive. The principal companies are: The above applies only to Chicago taxis. Suburban taxi cabs have their own fares and rates, depending on the laws and regulations of the town in which they are based. By shuttle edit Shuttlewizard. To From OHare Airport. 1 310-626-0067. 12. Offers airport transportation rides with shuttles, private sedans, SUVs, and limos. 160edit By bicycle edit Chicago has bike paths along the north shores of Lake Michigan, making northsouth travel convenient near the lake as long as the weather is favorable. Riding off the bike paths is very inadvisable as Illinoisans drive very recklessly and without regard, and will rear end a cyclist and keep right on going. Do not ride on either the street or sidewalk in the city. However, you can legally and safely ride in some of the alleys as Chicago has a lot of them. The mid and inner city, especially including the west and south sides, also has many high crime areas where cyclists get shot and murdered while riding through and then their bikes stolen out from under them, even in broad daylight. If you really want to take bicycle trips and be safe, it is wise to head to the western suburbs. The Illinois Prairie Path is a bicycle trail that runs through DuPage and Kane Counties where it connects with the Fox River Trail, both of which make for some very scenic bicycle riding. Most other areas of DuPage and Kane County are crisscrossed with bicycle trails. There is also the Salt Creek Trail that starts around west suburban Brookfield and goes west to around Interstate 294. By water taxi edit In the summer, water taxis are sometimes more convenient than the CTA, if you are traveling around the fringes of downtown. They are also a relatively cheap way to take in some offshore views. Two private companies operate water taxi services around the Loop. Chicago Water Taxi ( Wendella Boats ) 13 1 312 337-1446, uses yellow boats and has three stops (Michigan Ave, LaSalleClark, Madison St), plus Chinatown on weekends (2, 4 Chinatownall day pass). Taxis run roughly M-F 6:30AM-6:30PM, Sa-Su 10:30AM-6:30PM. Shoreline Sightseeing 14 1 312 222-9328, has blue and white boats. It is more expensive (5-7), but it serves seven destinations including some on Lake Michigan (Union StationSears Tower, Wells amp Wacker, Michigan Ave Bridge, Navy Pier-Ogden Slip, Navy Pier-Dock St, Buckingham Fountain, and Museum Campus). Shoreline taxis run 10AM-6PM every twenty minutes and 6PM-9PM every half hour Memorial DayLabor Day, with occasional and less frequent service in the spring and fall. See edit add listing Itineraries edit Along the Magnificent Mile one day and night in Chicago, with skyscrapers, shopping, food, parks, and amazing views of the city from high and low. Loop Art Tour a 2 to 4 hour walking tour of downtown Chicagos magnificent collection of modern sculptures. Museums edit Penguin triumphant, Lincoln Park Zoo Chicagos set of museums and cultural institutions are among the best in the world. Three of them are located within a short walk of each other in the Near South. on what is known as the Museum Campus . in a beautiful spot along the lake: the Adler Planetarium . with all sorts of cool hands-on space exhibits and astronomy shows the Field Museum of Natural History . which features SUE . the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, and a plethora of Egyptian treasures and the Shedd Aquarium . with dolphins, whales, sharks, and the best collection of marine life east of California. A short distance away, in Hyde Park. is the most fun of them all, the Museum of Science and Industry or, as generations of Chicago-area grammar school students know it, the best field trip ever. In the Loop. the Art Institute of Chicago has a handful of iconic household names among an unrivaled collection of Impressionism, modern and classical art, and tons of historical artifacts. And in Lincoln Park. a short trip from the Loop, the cheerful (and free) Lincoln Park Zoo welcomes visitors every day of the week, with plentiful highlights like the Regenstein Center for African Apes. Also, Chicago has some knockout less well-known museums scattered throughout the city like the International Museum of Surgical Science and the Loyola University Museum of Art in Gold Coast. Chicago History Museum in Lincoln Park. DuSable Museum of African American History in Washington Park. National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. the Polish Museum of America in Wicker Park. the Museum of Photography in the Loop, and the Driehaus Museum in Near North. The University of Chicago, in Hyde Park. has several cool (and free) museums that are open to all visitors, showcasing a spectacular collection of antiquities and moderncontemporary art. Discount packages like the Chicago CityPASS 15 and the Go Chicago Card 16 can be purchased before you arrive in town. They cover admission to some museums and other tourist attractions, allowing you to cut to the front of lines, and may include discounts for restaurants and shopping. Also, programs such as Bank of Americas Museums to Go offer free admission at multiple Chicago museums for designated times which can save you a small fortune on admission fees. Ticket comparison sites like Trevii . 17 automatically calculates you the best ticket option for your trip itinerary with consideration of various discount options, such as CityPASS, Bank of Americas Museums to Go, age-dependent discounts, and etc. Architecture edit See the Chicago skyline guide to find out more about the citys skyscrapers. Prairie School Style Home, Oak Park From the sternly classical to the space-age, from the Gothic to the coolly modern, Chicago is a place with an embarrassment of architectural riches. Frank Lloyd Wright fans will swoon to see his earliest buildings in Chicago, where he began his professional career and established the Prairie School architectural style, with numerous homes in Hyde ParkKenwood. Oak Park. and Rogers Park over 100 buildings in the Chicago metropolitan area Frank Lloyd Wright learned his craft at the foot of the lieber meister . Louis Sullivan . whose ornate, awe-inspiring designs were once the jewels of the Loop. and whose few surviving buildings (Auditorium Theater, Carson Pirie Scott Building, one in the Ukrainian Village ) still stand apart. The 1871 Chicago Fire forced the city to rebuild. The ingenuity and ambition of Sullivan, his teacher William Le Baron Jenney (Manhattan Building), and contemporaries like Burnham amp Root (Monadnock, Rookery) and Holabird amp RocheRoot (Chicago Board of Trade) made Chicago the definitive city of their era. The worlds first skyscrapers were built in the Loop as those architects received ever more demanding commissions. It was here that steel-frame construction was invented, allowing buildings to rise above the limits of load-bearing walls. Later, Mies van der Rohe would adapt Sullivans ethos with landmark buildings in Bronzeville (Illinois Institute of Technology) and the Loop (Chicago Federal Center). Unfortunately, Chicagos world-class architectural heritage is almost evenly matched by the world-class recklessness with which the city has treated it, and the list is long of masterpieces that have been needlessly demolished for bland new structures. Today, Chicago boasts three out of Americas five tallest buildings: the Sears Tower (1st), the Trump Tower (2nd), and the Aon Center (5th) (although the local favorite is actually 6: the John Hancock Center ). For years, the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world, but it has since lost the title. Various developers insist theyre bringing the title back with proposed skyscrapers. Until they do, Chicago will have to settle for having the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere with the Sears Tower, although the Hancock has a better view and is quite frankly better-looking. Chicago is particularly noted for its vast array of sacred architecture . as diverse theologically as it is artistically. There were more than two thousand churches in Chicago at the opening of the twenty-first century. Of particular note are the so-called Polish Cathedrals like St. Mary of the Angels in Bucktown and St. Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale. as well as several treasures in Ukrainian Village beautifully crafted buildings with old world flourishes recognized for their unusually large size and impressive scope. The National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in Lincoln Park is the masterpiece of renowned architect Leonard Gliatto. Architectural tours cover the landmarks on foot and by popular river boat tours, or by just standing awestruck on a downtown bridge over the Chicago River see individual district articles for details. For a tour on the cheap, the short trip around the elevated Loop train circuit (BrownPurple Lines) may be worth every penny of the 2 fare. African-American history edit Chicagos African-American history begins with the citys African-American founder, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable . Born to a Haitian slave and a French pirate, he married a woman from the Potawatomi tribe, and built a house and trading post on the Chicago River on the spot of todays Pioneer Court (the square just south of the Tribune Tower in the Near North ). Du Sable lived on the Chicago River with his family from the 1770s to 1800, when he sold his house to John Kinzie, whose family and friends would later claim to have founded the city. Relative to other northern cities, African-Americans constituted a fairly large part of Chicagos early population because of Illinois more tolerant culture, which was inherited from fervent anti-slavery Mormon settlers. As a non-slave state generally lacking official segregation laws, Illinois was an attractive place to live for black freedmen and fugitive slaves. By the 1920s, Chicago had a thriving middle class African-American community based in the Bronzeville neighborhood, which at the time became known as The Black Metropolis, home to a cultural renaissance comparable to the Harlem Renaissance of New York. African-American literature of the time was represented by famous and local poetess Gwendolyn Brooks and the novelist Richard Wright . most famous for his Native Son . nearly all of which takes place in Chicagos Bronzeville and Hyde ParkKenwood. The Chicago school of African-American literature distinguished itself from the East Coast by its focus on the new realities of urban African-American life. Chicago became a major center of African-American jazz, and the home for the blues. Jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start there other famous black Chicagoans of the day included Bessie Coleman the worlds first licensed black pilot, the hugely influential African-American and womens civil rights activist Ida B. Wells . the great pitchermanagerexecutive of Negro League Baseball Andrew Rube Foster . and many more. Helping to fuel Chicagos black renaissance was one of the single most influential parts of African-American history: the Great Migration . African-Americans from the South moved to the industrial cities of the North (particularly Chicago) due to the post-WWI shortage of immigrant industrial labor, and to escape the Jim Crow Laws and racial violence of the South. The massive wave of migrants increased Chicagos black population alone by more than 500,000. With it came southern food, Mississippi blues, and the challenges of establishing adequate housing for so many recent arrivals. Black Chicagos renaissance was halted momentarily, as was the entire world, by the Great Depression. In 1937 came the creation of the Chicago Housing Authority which sought to build affordable public housing for the city. However well-intentioned, the results were not good. The largest housing projects by far were the 1940 Ida B. Wells projects the Cabrini Green projects, which developed a reputation as the most violent housing projects in the nation and the massive 1962 Robert Taylor Homes, which stretched for several miles. In the beginning, the housing projects were indeed decent. As the years passed, unsavory people and less maintenance proved to be the downfall of the projects. The Black Metropolis was unable to cope with this development, and surrounding neighborhoods fell with it. Today, the city has torn down most of these structures and replaced them with lower rise, mixed used buildings which has shown to have more success than the previous dwellings. Further damaging to Chicagos black population was the phenomenon of white flight that took place across the nation. Unwilling to live beside black neighbors, many white Chicagoans fled desegregation to the suburbs. This trend was accelerated by the practice of blockbusting, where unsavory real estate agents would fan racist fears in order to buy homes on the cheap. As a result, most of Chicago neighborhoods never truly integrated at that time, and the social, educational, and economic networks that incoming non-whites had hoped to join disintegrated in the wake of fleeing white citizens. Today, integration has come a long way and integration exists in many Chicago neighborhoods including the communities on the entire eastern half of the North Side that border the lakefront, as well as communities such as Hyde ParkKenwood. Logan Square. Little Italy. Auburn Gresham, Beverly. and Hegewisch. However, there are still parts of the city that are predominantly composed of one race. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. decided to come north and chose Chicago as his first destination. However, from the moment of his arrival on the Southwest Side. King was utterly confounded. The death threats that followed his march through Marquette Park were challenge enough, but nowhere in the South was there a more expert player of politics than Chicagos Mayor Richard J. Daley. King left town frustrated and exhausted, but Rev. Jesse Jackson continued civil rights efforts in Chicago through his Operation PUSH. The 1983 election of Mayor Harold Washington . the first black mayor of Chicago, was a watershed event for Chicagos African-American population, and although long battles with obstructionist and racist white politicians lay ahead, it marked the moment when Black elected officials became major, independent forces in Chicago. Today, comprising well over a third of the city, Chicagos black population is the countrys second largest in overall numbers, after New York City. However, blacks make up a larger percentage of Chicago than they do of New York City. The large South Side is the cultural center of Chicagos black community. The South Side along with the adjoining south suburbs constitutes the largest single Black region in the entire country, and boasts the countrys greatest concentration of black-owned businesses. Some Chicagoans and outsiders from other parts of the country who are ignorant of this area may tell you that it is dangerous. North Siders in general do not think much of the West Side or the South Side (similar to the way Manhattanites in New York City do not think much of the other four boroughs of that city). Although the West Side of Chicago does contain many economically challenged neighborhoods, the reality of the South Side is more complex. On the South Side there are affluent, middle class, and economically challenged neighborhoods. Affluent and upper-middle class areas on the South Side include the South Loop. Hyde ParkKenwood. upper Bronzeville. Chatham. South Shore. Beverly. Mount Greenwood. West Lawn. and western Morgan Park. Chicago is a very large city and the South Side is large, thus, many people outside the South Side may not be familiar with these affluentupper-middle class areas on the South Side. The local newscasts also have a bad habit: When a crime happens on the North Side, the commentator will put an emphasis on the neighborhood in which it happened, which tends to not give the entire North Side a bad image. However, when a crime happens on the South Side, the emphasis is put on South Side . thus giving the entire South Side a bad image. For those interested in African-American history, Bronzeville is a top destination. The Kenwood area also boasts interesting recent history, as it has been (or is) home to championship boxer Muhammad Ali, Nation of Islam leaders Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan, and President Barack Obama . No one should miss the DuSable Museum of African-American History in Bronzeville. adjancent to Hyde Park, the first museum of African-American history in the United States. And if your interest is more precisely in African-American culture than history, head down to Chatham and South Shore to enter the heart of Chicagos black community. Ethnic neighborhoods edit Wentworth Ave, Chinatowns main street Chicago is among the most diverse cities in America, and many neighborhoods reflect the character and culture of the immigrants who established them. Some, however, do more than just reflect: they absorb you in a place that can make an entire neighborhood feel like a chunk of another country. The best of Chicagos ethnic neighborhoods are completely uncompromised, and that makes them a real highlight for visitors. Chicagos Chinatown is among the most active Chinatowns in the world. It even has its own stop on the CTA Red Line. Its on the South Side near Bridgeport. birthplace of the Irish political power-brokers who have run Chicago government for most of the last century. More Irish communities exist on the Far Southwest Side. where they even have an Irish castle to seal the deal. The Southwest Side houses enormous populations of Polish Highlanders and Mexicans, as well as reduced Lithuanian and Bohemian communities. No serious Chicago gourmand would eat Indian food that didnt come from a restaurant on Devon Avenue in Rogers Park. Its paradise for spices, saris, and the latest Bollywood flicks. Lawrence Avenue in Albany Park is sometimes called Seoul Drive for the Korean community there, and the Persian food on Kedzie Avenue nearby is simply astonishing. At the Argyle Red Line stop, by the intersection of Argyle and Broadway in Uptown. youd be forgiven for wondering if you were still in America Vietnamese, Thais, and Laotians share space on a few blocks of restaurants, grocery stores, and even dentists. Neither the Swedish settlers who built Andersonville or the Germans from Lincoln Square are the dominant presence in those neighborhoods any more, but their identity is still present in restaurants, cultural centers, and other discoveries to be made. Likewise, Little Italy and Greektown on the Near West Side survive only as restaurant strips. A more contemporary experience awaits in Pilsen and Little Village. two neighborhoods on the Lower West Side where the Spanish signage outnumbers the English in fact, Chicago has the second largest Mexican and Puerto Rican populations outside of their respective home countries. Pilsen and its arts scene is an especially an exciting place to visit. Its hard to imagine displacement being a concern for the Polish community on the citys Far Northwest and Southwest sides. The Belmont-Central business district is what you might consider the epicenter of Polish activity. Bars, restaurants, and dozens of other types of Polish businesses thrive on this strip, and on a smaller section of Milwaukee Avenue (between Roscoe and Diversey) in the vicinity of St. Hyacinth Basilica which bears the Polish name of Jackowo - Chicagos Polish Village. Polish Highlanders, or Grals, on the other hand dominate the citys Southwest Side with a cuisine and culture that is decidedly Balkan. A host of restaurants and cultural institutions visibly display the rustic touch of their Carpathian craft such as the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America at Archer Avenue just northeast of its intersection with Pulaski Road. Taste of Polonia . held over Labor Day weekend on the grounds of the Copernicus Foundation at the historic Gateway Theatre . draws an annual attendance of about 50,000 people and is touted as the citys largest ethnic fest. Do edit add listing Shedd Aquarium ( Shedd Aquarium ), 1200 S. Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60605. (312) 939-2438. 18. 9 am - 5pm. Chicagos Shedd Aquarium is the citys premier location for aquatic life and family fun With over 32,000 creatures, ranging from fish to crustaceans and everything in between, Shedd is the perfect place for children to learn and inspire curiosity about oceanic and aquatic life Various exhibits include Aquatic Shows, Amazon Rising, Caribbean Reef, Jellies, Abbott Oceanarium, Polar Play Zone, Waters Of The World, Wild Reef, and A Holiday Fantasea. General Admission Adults - 8, Children - 6, special exhibits cost extra. ( 41.8676 N. 87.6140 W ) 160edit Chicago Architecture Foundation ( CAF ), 224 S. Michigan Avenue ( at Michigan and Jackson ), 312-922-3432. 19. 9-6. provides over 90 tours by boat, bike, trolley, bus and on foot of Chicagos architecture. Tours offered every day except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day. Multiple walking tours through out the day one bus or trolley tour daily, Chicago River Cruise from April thru November. prices vary. 160edit Beaches edit The five Great Lakes together form one of the largest masses of freshwater on Earth, containing around 20 of the worlds surface fresh water alone, and Chicagoans enjoy flocking to the beaches of Lake Michigan. Chicago has great beaches and anyone can show up and swim. There are no admission fees on the citys miles upon miles of beaches, and nearly the entire waterfront is open as public beach and parkland what amounts to terrific planning by the city. The water is quite warm in the summer and early fall (check with the NOAA for temperatures 20 ). The Chicago shore has been called the second cleanest urban waterfront in the world . and thats really saying something for a metropolitan area of nearly 10 million people. Bacteria levels in the water do force occasional closures, but they are very rare. Lifeguards will be posted when the beach is officially open. Oak Street Beach and North Avenue Beach (in the Near North and Lincoln Park ) are the fashionable places to sun-tan and be seen and are usually crowded due to their proximity to downtown and area hotels. Rogers Park. Edgewater. and 35th Street Beach allow visitors more individual space and an enjoyable vibe as well. Hyde Parks Promontory Point is beautiful, and offers skyline views from its submerged beach by the rocks, although a swim there is technically against city rules. Hollywood Beach in Edgewater is the main gay beach. Montrose Beach in Uptown is the citys largest beach and hosts a large dog beach and a full service, outdoor restaurant in addition to July 3 fireworks and a variety of live music events. A large bird sanctuary and one of the few hills in Chicago are also located near Montrose Beach. Volleyball tournaments are occassionally held at Chicago beaches. The city has 33 beaches of various sizes within the city limits alone. There are additional beaches in the northern suburbs as well. Parks edit The Osaka Garden on Jackson Parks Wooded Isle Where there are beaches, there are waterfront parks. During the summer months, the parks are a destination for organized and impromptu volleyball and soccer games, chess matches, and plenty more, with tennis and basketball courts dotted along the way. There are also terrific parks goin inland. In the Loop. Grant Park hosts music festivals throughout the year, and Millennium Park is a fun destination for all ages, especially during the summer. In Hyde Park. Midway Park offers skating, and summer and winter gardens in the shadow of the academic giant, the University of Chicago, and Jackson Park has golf, more gardens and the legacy of the citys shining moment, the 1893 Worlds Colombian Exposition. In Bronzeville. Washington Park is one of the citys best places for community sports. Lincoln Park contains the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory. And thats just a brief overview. Almost every neighborhood in Chicago has a beloved park. Chicago is also home to the Bloomingdale Trail606. This is a linear park in the sky. This elevated greenway, created from railroad right-of-ways and its viaducts, is 2.7 miles, running through several Chicago neighborhoods, and complete with walking paths, bike lanes, benches, flowers and plants. This type of linear park, over former rail lines, is the third such type in the entire world, after a nearly 3 mile long version in Paris, and a 1 mile long version in New York City. Events amp Festivals edit The Lollapalooza Music Festival If youre absolutely determined and you plan carefully, you may be able to visit Chicago during a festival-less week. Its a challenge, though. Most neighborhoods, parishes, and service groups host their own annual festivals throughout the spring, summer, and fall 21. And the city has several in the winter. There are a few cant-miss city-wide events, though. In the Loop. Grant Park hosts Taste of Chicago in July, the largest outdoor food festival in the world and there are four major music festivals: Blues Fest and Gospel Fest in June, Lollapalooza in August, and Jazz Fest in September. All but Lollapalooza are free. The Chicago-based music website Pitchfork Media also hosts their own annual three day festival of rock, rap, and more in the summer at Union Park on the Near West Side. Sports edit With entries in every major professional sports league and several universities in the area, Chicago sports fans have a lot to keep them occupied. The Chicago Bears play football at Soldier Field in the Near South from warm September to frigid January. Since the baseball teams split the city in half, nothing seizes the Chicago sports consciousness like a playoff run from the Bears. Aspiring fans will be expected to be able to quote a minimum of two verses of the Super Bowl Shuffle from memory, tear up at the mention of Walter Payton, and provide arguments as to how Butkus, Singletary, and Urlacher represent stages in the evolution of the linebacker, with supporting evidence in the form of grunts, yells, and fists slammed on tables. The Chicago Bulls play basketball at the United Center on the Near West Side. They are an exciting team to watch, led by star Derrick Rose. The Chicago Blackhawks share quarters with the Bulls. As one of the Original Six teams in professional hockey, the Blackhawks have a long history in their sport, and the team is experiencing a renaissance after capturing the Stanley Cup in 2010 for the first time in 49 years and winning two more championships in 2013 and 2015. Home games for both teams tend to sell out, but tickets can usually be found if you check around. Both the Bulls and the Blackhawks play from the end of October to the beginning of April. Its baseball, though, in which the tribal fury of Chicago sports is best expressed. The Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field (the oldest National League ballpark and the second oldest active major league ballpark) on the North Side, in Lakeview. and the Chicago White Sox play at U. S. Cellular Field (Comiskey Park, underneath the corporate naming rights) on the South Side, in Bridgeport. Both franchises have more than a centurys worth of history, and both teams play 81 home games from April to the beginning of October. Everything else is a matter of fiercely held opinion. The two three-game series when the teams play each other are the hottest sports tickets in Chicago during any given year. If someone offers you tickets to a game, pounce. There are plenty of smaller leagues in the city as well, although some play their games in the suburbs. The Chicago Fire (Major League Soccer) and Chicago Red Stars (National Womens Soccer League) play soccer in the suburb of Bridgeview, the Chicago Sky play womens professional basketball at the UIC Pavilion on the Near West Side. and the Windy City Rollers skate flat-track roller derby in neighboring Cicero. Minor league baseball teams dot the suburbs as well. While college athletics are not one of Chicagos strong points, Northwestern football (in Evanston ) and DePaul basketball (off-campus in Rosemont ) show occasional signs of life. If you find yourself in Hyde Park. ask someone how the University of Chicago football team is doing its a surefire conversation starter. Theater edit The Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park. seat of the Copernicus Foundation. The theaters Baroque spire is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw . Modern American comedy the good parts, at least was born when a group of young actors from Hyde Park formed The Compass Players, fusing intelligence and a commitment to character with an improvisational spark. One strand of their topical, hyper-literate comedy led, directly or indirectly, to Shelly Berman, Mike Nichols amp Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, MASH and The Mary Tyler Moore Show another strand, namely The Second City . led to Saturday Night Live and a pretty huge percentage of the funny movies and television of the last thirty years. Still in Chicagos Old Town (and few other places as well), still smart and still funny, Second City does two-act sketch revues followed by one act of improv. If you only see one show while youre in Chicago, Second City is a good choice. Improvisational comedy as a performance art form is a big part of the Chicago theater scene. At Lakeview and Uptown theaters like The Annoyance Theater . I. O. . and The Playground . young actors take classes and perform shows that range from ragged to inspired throughout the week. Some are fueled by the dream of making the cast of SNL or Tina Feys latest project, and some just enjoy doing good work on-stage, whether or not theyre getting paid for it (and most arent). Theres no guarantee that youll see something great on any given night, but improv tends to be cheaper than anything else in town, and it can definitely be worth the risk. Another popular theater experience is the comedydrama hybrid Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind . offering 30 plays in 60 minutes every weekend in Andersonville. Steppenwolf . in Lincoln Park. is Chicagos other landmark theater. Founded in 1976, they have a history of taking risks onstage, and they have the ensemble to back it up, with heavyweights like Joan Allen, John Malkovich, and Gary Sinise. Steppenwolf isnt cheap any more, but they mix good, young actors with their veteran ensemble and still choose interesting, emotionally-charged scripts. Its the best place in town to see modern, cutting-edge theater with a bit of I went to. name-drop value for the folks back home. Most of the prestige theaters, including the Broadway in Chicago outlets, are located in the Loop or the Near North. Tickets are expensive and can be tough to get, but shows destined for Broadway like The Producers often make their debut here. For the cost-conscious, the League of Chicago Theatres operates Hot Tix 22. which offers short-notice half-price tickets to many Chicago shows. One theater to see, regardless of the production, is The Auditorium in the Loop. Its a masterpiece of architecture and of performance space. Designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, who were on a commission from syndicate of local business magnates to bring some culture to the heathen city, it was the tallest building in Chicago and one of the tallest in the world at the time of its opening in 1889, and its still an impressive sight, inside and out. Learn edit The University of Chicagos Gothic campus is in Hyde Park. which is, famously, home to more Nobel Prizes per square mile than any other neighborhood on Earth. Work edit The iconic L rumbling overhead in the Loop Chicago still loves Carl Sandburg and his poems, but the city shucked off the hog butchers apron a long time ago. In terms of industry, theres little that distinguishes Chicago from any other major city in America, save for size. The Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are among the biggest employers, with stables of traders and stock wizards. Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago amid much fanfare a few years ago United Airlines . Abbott Laboratories . and AbbVie are other international companies with headquarters in town. The Big Five consulting firms all have one or more offices in the Loop. And theres always construction work in the city the city has a strong union presence. For younger workers, the museums in the downtown area are always looking for high-enthusiasm guides, and the retail outlets on the Magnificent Mile and State Street are also good options. And with so many colleges and universities in the city, study abroad opportunities abound. Buy edit add listing Whatever you need, you can buy it in Chicago, on a budget or in luxury. The most famous shopping street in Chicago is a stretch of Michigan Avenue known as The Magnificent Mile . in the Near North area. It includes many designer boutiques, and several multi-story malls anchored by large department stores like 900 N Michigan and Water Tower Place. Additional brands are available from off-strip shops to the south and west of Michigan. State Street used to be a great street for department stores in the Loop. but its now a shadow of its former self, with Carson Pirie Scotts landmark Louis Sullivan-designed building now a Target store, and invading forces from New York holding the former Marshall Fields building hostage under the name Macys (Most locals still insist that it is Marshall Fields). Even Filenes Basement, the famous discount location, is now closed, though a few other discount shops persist. For a classic Chicago souvenir, pick up a box of Frango Mints . much-loved mint chocolates that were originally offered by Marshall Fields and are still available at Macys stores. Although no longer made in the thirteenth-floor kitchen of the State Street store, the original recipe appears to still be in use, which pleases the loyal crowds fond of the flavor and too bad for anyone looking to avoid trans-fats. However, for a more unique shopping experience, check out the fun, eclectic stores in Lincoln Square. or the cutting-edge shops in Bucktown and Wicker Park. which is also the place to go for music fiends although there are also key vinyl drops in other parts of the city as well. Southport in Lakeview and Armitage in Lincoln Park also have browser-friendly fashion boutiques. For art or designer home goods . River North is the place to go. Centered between the Merchandise Mart and the Chicago Avenue Brown Line L stop in the Near North. River Norths gallery district boasts the largest arts and design district in North America outside of Manhattan. The entire area is walkable and makes for fun window-shopping. Goods from around the world are available at the import stores in Chicagos many ethnic neighborhoods check See for descriptions and district articles for directions. If you are the type that loves to browse through independent bookstores . Hyde Park has a stunning assortment of dusty used bookstores selling beat-up-paperbacks to rare 17th century originals, and the worlds largest academic bookstore. Printers Row in the Near South is also a great stop for book lovers. Groceries and other basics edit The major supermarket chains in Chicago are Jewel Osco, Marianos, Food 4 Less, Aldi, Whole Foods Market, and Trader Joes. In addition, the nations three largest discount store chains Walmart, Target, and Kmart have several stores in Chicago as well. 7-Eleven convenience stores are usually found every couple of blocks and are always open 24-7, but have limited selection and high prices. The Walgreens drug store chain which is based in the city are also ubiquitous throughout Chicago with many locations open twenty four hours a day. Competitor CVS also has many locations in the area. Due to its huge expat and immigrant population, Chicago also features a large variety of ethnic grocery stores, including Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, and Mexican. Eat edit add listing Chicagos love affair with Polish sausages runs deep. As Hyde Park is to academics, and Near North is to department stores, so Avondale is to Polish sausages. Cavernous delis line the streets here, particularly up Milwaukee Avenue Chicago is one of the great restaurant towns in America. If youre looking for a specific kind of cuisine, check out the neighborhoods. Greektown. the Devon Ave Indian corridor, Chinatown. and Chatham s soul food and barbecue are just the tip of the iceberg. Other areas are more eclectic: Lincoln Square and Albany Park have unrivaled Middle Eastern, German, and Korean food, while Uptown offers nearly the whole Southeast Asian continent with Ghanaian, Nigerian, contemporary American, stylish Japanese, and down-home Swedish a few blocks away. If youre interested in celebrity chefs and unique creations, Lincoln Park and Wicker Park have plenty of award-winners. River North has several good upscale restaurants, but dont waste your time on tourist traps like Rainforest Cafe, Cheesecake Factory, or the Hard Rock Cafe. In fact, you should never submit to standing in line there are always equally good restaurants nearby. No matter what you enjoy, youll have a chance to eat well in Chicago, and you wont need to spend a lot of money doing it unless you want to, of course. But while Chicago has a world class dining scene downtown, it is the low-end where it truly distinguishes itself. No other city on earth takes fast food so seriously for those who dont concern themselves with calorie counting, Chicago is cheap, greasy heaven. Head northwest and youll find sausage shops and old-style Polish restaurants that carry on as if health food and celebrity chefs never happened in Jackowo - Chicagos Polish Village. as well as at Belmont-Central - an Eastern European culinary heaven. The suburb of Des Plaines on the northwest side of the city near OHare is where you can find the worlds first McDonalds. Quite a few other local culinary specialties in particular deserve further description. The citys three most iconic dishes are Chicago-style hot dogs, deep dish pizza, and Italian beef. However, there are other unique fast foods that are local favorites (particularly in the South Side). These lesser-known include the Maxwell Street Polish (a grilled kielbasa served on a hot dog bun with grilled onions), the pork chop sandwich (a tender pork chop with grilled onions and hot pepper on a hamburger bun be advised, this tasty sandwich has a bone in the pork chop), and Chicago-style thin-crust pizza (which has a much crispier crust than that of a New York thin-crust pizza). Maxwell Polishes and pork chop sandwiches are available throughout Maxwell-style eateries in the city, but are much more prevalent in the West Side and the South Side the three most popular Maxwell-style eateries are Jims Original (1250 S. Union Ave.), Express Grill (1260 S. Union Ave.) and the Maxwell Depot (411 W. 31st St.). Chicago-style thin-crust pizza is available in almost every pizzeria in the South Side. Chicago pizza edit Chicagos deep dish pizza is incredible Chicagos most prominent contribution to world cuisine might be the deep dish pizza . Delivery chains as far away as Kyoto market Chicago-style pizza, but the only place to be sure youre getting the real thing is in Chicago. To make a deep dish pizza, a thin layer of dough is laid into a deep round pan and pulled up the sides, and then meats and vegetables Italian sausage, onions, bell peppers, mozzarella cheese, and more are lined on the crust. At last, tomato sauce goes on top, and the pizza is baked. Its gooey, messy, not recommended by doctors, and delicious. When you dine on deep dish pizza, dont wear anything you were hoping to wear again soon. Some nationally-known deep dish pizza hubs are Pizzeria UNO and DUE, Ginos East, Giordanos, and Lou Malnatis, but plenty of local favorites exist. Ask around people wont be shy about giving you their opinion. But deep dish is not the end of the line in a city that takes its pizza so seriously. Chicago also prides itself on its distinctive thin-crust pizza and stuffed pizzas. The Chicago thin crust has a thin, cracker-like, crunchy crust, which somehow remains soft and doughy on the top side. Toppings and a lot of a thin, spiced Italian tomato sauce go under the mozzarella cheese, and the pizza is sliced into squares. If you are incredulous that Chicagos pizza preeminence extends into the realm of the thin crust, head south of Midway to Vito and Nicks, which is widely regarded among local gourmands as the standard bearer for the city. The stuffed pizza is a monster, enough to make an onlooker faint. Start with the idea of a deep dish, but then find a much deeper dish and stuff a lot more toppings under the cheese. Think deep-dish apple pie, but pizza. Allow 45 minutes to an hour for pizza places to make one of these and allow 3-4 extra notches on your belt for the ensuing weight gain. Arguably the best stuffed pizza in town is at Bella Bacinos in the Loop. which somehow is not greasy, but other excellent vendors include Giordanos, Ginos, and Edwardos. The Chicago hot dog edit A charred Chicago-style hot dog with all the trappings This may come as a surprise to New Yorkers, but the Chicago hot dog is the king of all hot dogs indeed, it is considered the perfect hot dog . Perhaps due to the citys history of Polish and German immigration, Chicago takes its dogs way more seriously than the rest of the country. A Chicago hot dog is always all-beef (usually Vienna beef), always served on a poppy-seed bun, and topped with what looks like a full salad of mustard, tomato slices, a dill pickle spear, sport (chili) peppers, a generous sprinkling of celery salt, diced onion, and a sweet-pickle relish endemic-to-Chicago that is dyed an odd, vibrant bright-green color. Its a full meal, folks. Ketchup is regarded as an abomination on a proper Chicago-style hot dog. Self-respecting establishments will refuse orders to put the ketchup on the dog, and many have signs indicating that they dont serve it truly serious hot dog joints dont even allow the condiment on the premises. The reason for Chicagos ketchup aversion is simple ketchup contains sugar, which overwhelms the taste of the beef and prevents its proper enjoyment. Hence, ketchups replacement with tomato slices. Similarly, Chicagoans eschew fancy mustards that would overwhelm the flavor of the meat in favor of simple yellow mustard. And for the hungry visiting New Yorkers, the same goes for sugary sauerkraut just no . At most hot dog places, you will have the option to try a Maxwell Street Polish instead. Born on the eponymous street of the Near West Side. the Polish is an all-beef sausage on a bun, with fewer condiments than the Chicago hot dog: usually just grilled onions, mustard, and a few chili peppers. In a tragic, bizarre twist of fate, the areas of Chicago most visited by tourists (i. e. the Loop ) lack proper Chicago hot dog establishments. If you are downtown and want to experience a Chicago hot dog done right, the nearest safe bet is Portillos. Although, if youre up for a little hot dog adventure, you can eat one right at the source, at the Vienna Beef Factory deli. Sadly, both baseball parks botch their dogs, although the 2011 return of Vienna Beef as the official hot dog of Wrigley Field is a step in the right direction. Italian Beef edit The Italian Beef sandwich completes the Chicago triumvirate of tasty greasy treats. The main focus of the sandwich is the beef, and serious vendors will serve meat of a surprisingly good quality, which is slow-roasted, and thinly shaved before being loaded generously onto chewy, white, Italian-style bread. Two sets of options will come flying at you, so prepare yourself: sweet peppers or hot, and dipped or not. The sweet peppers are sauted bell peppers, while the hots are a mixed Chicago giardiniera. The dip, of course, is a sort of French dip of the sandwich back into the beef broth. (Warning: dipped Italian Beefs are sloppy) If you are in the mood, you may be able to get an Italian Beef with cheese melted over the beef, although travelers looking for the authentic Italian Beef perhaps should not stray so far from tradition. The Italian Beef probably was invented by Italian-American immigrants working in the Union Stockyards on the Southwest Side. who could only afford to take home the tough, lowest-quality meat and therefore had a need to slow-roast it, shave it into thin slices, and dip it just to get it in chewable form. But today the sandwich has found a lucrative home downtown, where it clogs the arteries and delights the taste buds of the Chicago workforce during lunch break. Some of the citys favorite downtown vendors include Lukes Italian Beef in the Loop and Mr. Beef in the Near North. while the Portillos chain is another solid option. Four fried chickens and a coke. With the Great Migration came much of what was best about the South: blues, jazz, barbecue but following a legendary meal at which a young, hungry Harold Pierce saw the last piece of bird flee his grasp into the mouth of the local preacher, Harold made it his mission to add fried chicken to that prestigious list, and to ensure that no South Side Chicagoan ever run out. Harolds Chicken Shack, a. k.a. the Fried Chicken King, is a South Side institution like no other. The Chicago-style fried chicken is considered by many connoisseurs to be some of the nations best (certainly in the North), and it is fried in a home-style mix of beef tallow and vegetable oil, then covered with sauce (hot or mild). Crucially, it is always cooked to order ensuring that essential layer of grease between the skin and the meat. A half chicken meal can come as cheap as 4 and includes coleslaw, white bread, and sauce-drenched fries make like a local and wrap the fries in the bread. Initially, the fried chicken chain spread throughout black neighborhoods, which were ignored by other fast food chains, but in later years the franchise has extended its greasy fingers to the West and North Sides, as well as downtown. While chances are you will not find better fried chicken outside of Harolds walls, the quality, pricing, and character vary between individual locations. Your safest bets are on the South Side if you are served through bullet-proof glass under signs bearing a chef chasing a chicken with a hatchet, rest assured you are getting the best. Drink edit add listing Chicago is a drinking town, and you can find bars and pubs in every part of the city. It is believed that Chicago has the second highest bars-per-capita in the U. S. (after San Francisco ). Chicagoans have their choice of the hottest clubs or the best dive bars in town. Most areas that thrive on the bar culture do so for the variety, and bar hopping is quite common. Grab a drink or two, have a good time, and then try another place. It is all about variety. Be prepared to be asked for identification to verify your age, even at neighborhood dive bars. Smoking is banned in Chicago bars (and restaurants). The best places to drink for drinkings sake are Wicker Park and neighboring Logan Square and Bucktown. which have a world-class stock of quality local breweries and dive bars, which can be reached by the CTA Blue Line. These two areas are where the majority of Chicagos hipsters live, with the effect that most of the bars are considered Hipster Bars. North Center and Roscoe Village are also great destination for the art of the beer garden. Just to the west of the Addison CTA Red Line stop and near Wrigley Field in Lakeview is the Wrigleyville district with bars that are popular with twenty-somethings. These bars are crowded on weekends and whenever the Cubs are playing. One block to the East of the Addison stop on Halsted Street, is the center of Chicagos gay community, known as Boystown. Boystown centers around Halsted street and stretches from Belmont Avenue to the south to Irving Park Road on the North. Clark Street runs at an angle through the area. This district is filled with many trendy shops, bars, clubs, and restaurants. Housing is at a premium rate in this area. Boystown is busy most nights of the week and very busy on weekends. Just to the south, the Lincoln Park neighborhood has bars and beer gardens, and some trendy clubs for the neighborhoods notorious high-spending Trixies. This is another very expensive neighborhood. Tourists and locals also converge upon the nightclubs of Rush and Division St. This area remains very popular although other areas of the city are becoming increasing popular as nightlife destinations as well. For the last few years the West Loops warehouse bars were the place to be, but more recently the River North neighborhood has become popular. Still, the RushDivision bars do huge business. Streeterville, immediately adjacent, exchanges the dance floors for high-priced hotel bars and piano lounges. Although good dance music can be found in Wicker Park and the surrounding area, the best places to dance in the city are the expensive see and be seen clubs in River North and the open-to-all (except perhaps bachelorette parties) clubs in gay-friendly Boystown. which are a lot of fun for people of any sexual orientation. Halsted St in Boystown has many LGBT bars and nightclubs, for every age and type of music. Take the Redline train and get off at Belmont station. Jazz and Blues edit See The Jazz Track for a wealth of information about current and historic jazz clubs in Chicago. The Lower Mississippi River Valley is known for its music New Orleans has jazz, and Memphis has blues. Chicago, though located far away from the valley, has both. Former New Orleans and Memphis residents brought jazz and blues to Chicago as they came north for a variety of reasons: the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 brought a lot of itinerant musicians to town, and the citys booming economy kept them coming through the Great Migration. Chicago was the undisputed capital of early jazz between 1917-1928, wih masters like Joe King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, Earl Hines, and Jelly Roll Morton. Most of Chicagos historic jazz clubs are on the South Side, particularly in Bronzeville. but the North Side has the cant-miss Green Mill in Uptown. The blues were in Chicago long before the car chase and the mission from God, but The Blues Brothers sealed Chicago as the home of the blues in the popular consciousness. Fortunately, the city has the chops to back that up. Maxwell Street 23 (Near West Side ) was the heart and soul of Chicago blues, but the wrecking ball, driven by the University of Illinois at Chicago, has taken a brutal toll. Residents have been fighting to save what remains. For blues history, it doesnt get much better than Willie Dixons Blues Heaven Foundation (Near South ), and Bronzeville. the former Black Metropolis, is a key stop as well. Performance venues run the gamut from tiny, cheap blues bars all over the city to big, expensive places like Buddy Guys Legends (Loop ) and the original House of Blues (Near North ). But dont let yourself get too wrapped up in the past, because Chicago blues is anything but. No other city in the world can compete with Chicagos long list of blues-soaked neighborhood dives and lounges. The North Sides blues clubs favor tradition in their music, and are usually the most accessible to visitors, but offer a slightly watered down experience from the funkier, more authentic blues bars on the South and Far West Sides, where most of Chicagos blues musicians live and hang. If one club could claim to be the home of the real Chicago blues, Lees Unleaded Blues in Chatham-South Shore would probably win the title. But there are scores of worthy blues joints all around the city (many of which are a lot easier to visit via public transport). A visit to one of these off-the-beaten-path blues dives is considerably more adventurous than a visit to the touristy House of Blues, but the experiences born of such adventures have been known to reward visitors with a life-long passion for the blues. Although playing second fiddle to the blues in the citys collective consciousness, jazz thrives in Chicago, too, thanks in no small part to members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and their residencies at clubs like The Velvet Lounge and The Jazz Showcase (both of which see regular national acts) (Near South ), The New Apartment Lounge (Chatham-South Shore ) and The Hideout (Bucktown ), with more expensive national touring acts downtown at The Chicago Theater (Loop ). If you are staying downtown, the Velvet Lounge will be your best bet, as it is an easy cab ride, and its high-profile performances will rarely disappoint. Fans should time their visits to coincide with Blues Fest in June, and Jazz Fest over Labor Day Weekend. Both take place in Grant Park (Loop ). Concerts edit Wicker Park and Bucktown are the main place to go for indie rock shows: the Double Door and the Empty Bottle are the best-known venues, but there are plenty of smaller ones as well. In Lakeview. the Metro is a beloved concert hole, with Schubas . Lincoln Hall . The Vic . and the Abbey Pub nearby (the latter on the Far Northwest Side ). Other mid-sized rock, hip-hop and RampB shows take place at the Riviera and the awesome Aragon Ballroom in Uptown. The Near South has become an underrated destination for great shows as well. The legendary Chicago Theater The Park West in Lincoln Park has light jazz, light rock, and other shows youd sit down for so does Navy Pier (Near North ), particularly in the summer. The venerable Chicago Theater in the Loop is better-known for its sign than for anything else, but it has rock, jazz, gospel, and spoken-word performances by authors like David Sedaris. The world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is the main bulwark in the city for classical and classy jazz, with occasional curve-balls like Bjrk. Youll find musicians from the CSO doing outreach all over the city, along with their counterparts at the Lyric Opera . Both are in the Loop. A few big concerts are held at the UIC Pavilion . the Congress Theater . and the United Center on the Near West Side every year, and some huge concerts have taken place at Soldier Field (Near South ). The Petrillo Bandshell in Grant Park and the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park . both in the Loop. tend to host big, eclectic shows and festivals in the summer, which are sometimes free. Otherwise, most big shows are out in the suburbs, primarily at the Allstate Arena and the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont. the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Star Plaza in Indiana. and the Alpine Valley Music Theater over the Wisconsin border in Elkhorn. Youll also have to head out to the suburbs for Ravinia . which features upscale classical, jazz, and blues outdoors throughout the summer. See Chicagoland for details on suburban venues. Sleep edit add listing Chicago hosts many major conventions each year and has plenty of places to stay. The majority are either at OHare Airport or downtown in the Loop and the Near North (near the Magnificent Mile). If you want to explore the city, aim for downtown a hotel near OHare is good for visiting one thing and one thing only, and thats OHare (although the CTA Blue Line is walking distance from most of them, so access to the city is easy, aside from 30 minutes). However, if you have a specific interest in mind, there are hotels throughout the city, and getting away from downtown will give you more of a sense of other neighborhoods. Youll appreciate that if youre in town for more than a couple of days. Make sure that where youre staying is within your comfort level before committing to stay there, though. More far flung transient hotels will be suitable for those seeking to relive Jack Kerouacs seedy adventures around the country, but may alarm and disgust the average traveler. Budget-priced places are usually pretty far from the Loop. so when youre booking, remember that Chicago is vast. Travelers on a budget should consider accommodations away from the city center which can be easily reached via any of the several CTA train lines. There is a hostel in the Loop. a hostel in Greektown within walking distance to Union Station, a hostel by Wrigley Field and three others near the universities in Lincoln Park, Rogers Park and in Wicker Park, all of which are interesting neighborhoods in their own right, and close to the L for access to the rest of the city. For deals on mid-range hotels, there are good options far out from the center by Midway and in North Lincoln. Embassy Suites Chicago North ShoreDeerfield. 1445 Lake Cook Road Deerfield, IL 60015. 1-847-945-4500. 24. 160edit IHSP Chicago Hostel. 1616 North Damen ( Damen on the Blue Line ), 3127314234. 25. checkin: 2PM checkout: 11 AM. Rooftop deck, common room, free breakfast, social atmosphere. 20 -200 USD. 160edit Hilton Garden Inn Chicago DowntownMagnificent Mile. 10 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. 312-595-0000. 26. 160edit Trump International Hotel amp Tower Chicago ( Trump Hotel Chicago ), 401 N Wabash Ave ( Downtown ), 312.588.8000. 27. 5 star, luxury downtown Chicago hotel on Michigan Avenueoffers river, lake and skyline views, accommodations, spa amp health club, 5 star Michelin-rated dining, and meeting and wedding venues. 160edit Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. 540 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611. 1-312-836-0100 ( fax. 1-312-836-6139 ), 28. checkin: 16:00 checkout: 12:00. Located on Magnificent Mile within walking distance of Navy Pier, American Girl Place, Shedd Aquarium, Millennium Park, Theater and Museum Districts. Hotel has indoor pool, fitness center, on-site bar, coffee shop and restaurant. 199 USD and above. 160edit JW Marriott Chicago. 151 West Adams Street Chicago, IL 60603. 1-312-660-8200 ( fax. 1-312-660-8201 ), 29. checkin: 15:00 checkout: 12:00. Located at LaSalle and Adams, this Chicago Loop hotel features an on-site spa, restaurant and bar. 229 USD and above. 160edit Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel. 1 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60601. 1-312-372-7200 ( fax. 1-312-372-0093 ), 30. checkin: 16:00 checkout: 12:00. Situated on the north edge of the Loop, this downtown Chicago, IL hotel is steps from upscale shopping, fine dining and Millennium Park. On-site spa, fitness center, indoor pool, bar and restaurant. 209 USD and above. 160edit Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel ( The Blackstone ), 636 South Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605. 1-312-447-0955 ( fax. 1-312-765-0545 ), 31. checkin: 16:00 checkout: 12:00. Conveniently located next to Grant Park and the downtown Chicago Loop, the Blackstone offers luxury accommodations and upscale dining. 179 USD and above. 160edit Chicago Marriott OHare. 8535 West Higgins Road Chicago, IL 60631. 1-773-693-4444 ( fax. 1-773-693-3164 ), 32. checkin: 15:00 checkout: 12:00. Newly renovated and conveniently located three miles from Chicago OHare International Airport, 15 miles from downtown and L-train access just one block away. Features indoor pool, fitness center, on-site bar, coffee shop and restaurant. 119 USD and Up. 160edit Renaissance Chicago OHare Suites Hotel. 8500 West Bryn Mawr Avenue Chicago, IL 60631. 1-773-380-9600 ( fax. 1-773-380-9601 ), 33. checkin: 16:00 checkout: 12:00. Features indoor pool, fitness center, on-site bar, coffee shop and restaurant. Located steps from the L Chicago Blue Line-OHare and offering complimentary 24-hour shuttle service to Chicago OHare International Airport. 119 USD and above. 160edit Chicago Getaway Hostel. 616 W. Arlington Pl. 1 (773) 929-5380. Backpackers Hostel in a residential neighborhood, providing dorm and private rooms. 160edit Wyndham Grand Chicago Riverfront ,71 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, 60601, phone 1-312-346-7100, Formaly Hotel 71, this hotel is located near the intersection of Michgan Avenue and Wacker Drive. Near The Loop and the Magnificent Mile. On site restaurant and an event room that can seat 250 people. Rates 129 and above. Courtyard Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile. 165 E Ontario Street. 312-573-0800. 34. checkin: 3pm checkout: 12pm. With spectacular shopping, world-class museums, dynamic corporations and breathtaking architecture, the Windy City has it all and this hotel is located right in the heart of everything 160edit Stay safe edit Violent crime rates by neighborhood As in almost the entire United States, dial 911 to get emergency help. Dial 311 for all non-emergency situations in Chicago. Despite a big decline in the crime rate from the 1970s and 1980s, Chicago is still a big city with big city problems. There are run-down areas within a few blocks of some well-travelled places such as near the United Center and US Cellular Field. The majority of the citys violent crimes occur within a relatively small number of neighborhoods well off the beaten path in the South and West Sides, but given the chance nature of crime, you should exercise the usual precautions wherever you go. While on the South Side, in general, one should preferably avoid, or at the very least be extra vigilant in the area bounded by King Drive on the East, 43rd St on the North, 79th on the South, and Western Ave on the West. On the West Side, with the exception of visiting the Garfield Conservatory, the same advise applies to the area bounded roughly by Western Ave to the East, Central Ave to the West, Harrison Street to the South, and Chicago Ave to the North. Additionally, the North section of Lawndale, the East section of Chatham, the Northeast section of Auburn Gresham, and the Southern section of Roseland are inadvisable for visitors to enter unless one is headed to a specific restaurantsite in those areas. Even in a neighborhood with a bad reputation, though, you might still have a perfectly good time, as long as it falls within your comfort level. Take caution in the Loop at night after working hours, the Loop gets quiet and dark in a hurry west of State Street, but youll be fine near hotels and close to Michigan Avenue and the lake. When disembarking a crowded CTA train, especially in the downtown-area subways, be wary of purse snatchers and Apple pickers (thieves who snatch your smart phone--iPhones are a particular favorite--out of your hand and exit the train just before the doors close). Homelessness is a problem in the city and seeing people ask for help is common downtown. They are very unlikely to pose any kind of problem, though. Most are either holding up a sign asking for some type of assistance while others will actively solicit you for spare change. If you ignore them, they will ignore you. Some do sell a local newspaper called Streetwise to make a living. These people should be wearing a badge of some kind to indicate they sell the newspaper and they keep all the profits they make. If youre feeling generous but want to be safe, those selling Streetwise are your best bet. A common scam is for a beggar to come up to you and make remarks about how your shoes need to be cleaned or polished. They can be very friendly though very pushy to the unsuspecting tourist. Before you know it, your shoe is up on their knee and they are asking you for some amount they claimed they told you before they started. If you simply ignore them and walk away they should leave you alone. Not often, but some will continue to follow and harass you. If this happens, go inside any restaurant or store until they leave. In general, common sense will keep you safe in Chicago: avoid unfamiliar side streets at night, stay out of alleys at night, know where youre going when you set out, stick to crowded areas, and keep a 20 bill on hand for cab fare as a bail-out option. Dress appropriately for the weather. Chicagos winter is famously windy and cold, so cover exposed skin and wear layers in the winter, but heat exhaustion is an equal risk in the summer months, especially July and August. After snowfalls edit Stay off the road during a snowstorm. Chicagos streets and sanitation department generally does a good job clearing the major roads in the center of the city, but the neighborhoods can take longer, and the construction-littered expressways are anyones guess. If you happen to be driving in Chicago during or right after a snowstorm, be aware that certain areas have a tradition of parking dibs where residents place debris on the street to mark their cleared parking spots when their cars arent present. If you see broken furniture or wooden crates covering up a potential parking spot, dont move the debris to park as this might result in a serious altercation with residents or deliberate damage to your vehicle (eg slashed tires, broken windows, key scratches, etc). Respect edit Chicago has a reputation of being a segregated city, yet this image has finally started to erode somewhat. In many ways, it is like any other city: What may be okay behavior on one side of the city may get you into trouble on another side of the city. Homosexuality, accepted through downtown and the North Side, and parts of the South Side, may not be as well received elsewhere. There are many neighborhoods in Chicago where various races live in harmony, and race isnt an issue whatsoever. There are also neighborhoods that are mainly white, black, or latino and outsiders may be looked at with a curious eye. If you get lost, it is recommended that you try and flag down a police officer, as the Chicago Police Department can be quite helpful. You should also have a map with you of the city or area of the city that you intend to explore in case you get lost, so you dont have to bother someone for directions. Contact edit Internet edit The first Internet cafe in the United States was opened in Chicago, but they never really caught on here. There are still a few, though check individual district articles. If you have a computer with you, free wireless Internet access is now standard-issue at coffee shops throughout the city including major ones like Starbucks. Most hotels above the transient level offer free Wi-Fi, too. The good news is that all branches of the Chicago Public Library system offer free internet access . via public terminals and free, password-free, public wireless. If you do not have a Chicago library card, but you have a photo ID that shows you do not live in Chicago, you can get a temporary permit from the library information desk. (If you are from Chicago and dont have a library card, though, all you can get is a stern look and a brief lecture on how Chicagoans need to support the library system.) The most centrally located branch is the giant Harold Washington Library in the Loop. but there are branch libraries in every part of the city again, see individual district articles. Only Harold Washington and the two regional libraries (Sulzer and Woodson ) are open on Sundays. Telephones edit 312 was the area code for all of Chicago for a long time its still the code of choice for the Loop. and most of the Near North and Near South. 773 surrounds the center, covering everything else within city limits. Suburban areas close to the city use 847 (northnorthwest), 224 (northnorthwest), 708 (south), 815 (southwest), 630 (west), and 219 (northwest Indiana). Cope edit Publications edit The Chicago Tribune ( The Trib ), 35. The Tribune is Chicagos oldest daily, recently converted into a tabloid format for newsstand purchases. New ownership has shed much of the Tribs former prestige with a debt-leveraged purchase and forced bankruptcy, widespread staff layoffs, and an ill-advised redesign. 160edit The Chicago Sun-Times. 36. The Sun-Times is Chicagos other major newspaper. It has a long-standing reputation for aggressive (some might say sensationalist) investigative journalism. It has also been teetering on the verge of oblivion for some time. 160edit The Redeye. 37. Redeye is a free weekdays-only newspaper produced by the Tribune. Although its covers appear to report from some parallel universe where topics like sandwiches and being tired at work are the top stories of the day, it does have basic news coverage inside along with entertainment gossip. 160edit The Chicago Defender. 38. The Defender is Chicagos biggest African-American daily, and it played a major role in the citys African-American history. Its distribution network today is comparatively small, though. 160edit Hola Hoy. 39. Hola Hoy produces a free Spanish-language newspaper with wide distribution. 160edit The Chicago Reader. 40. The Reader is a free weekly newspaper distributed throughout the city each Wednesday. It includes extensive listings of arts, music, and events. Nobody knows more about Chicago than the Reader, but its definitely oriented toward locals. 160edit Crains Chicago Business. 41. Crains is a long-standing weekly newspaper covering the Chicago area business community, with a dash of politics and lifestyle definitely worth a look if youre in town on business. 160edit New City. 42. New City is a free weekly alternative arts and entertainment magazine, distributed every Wednesday. Event listings and local content are skimpy, but it is free. 160edit Time Out Chicago. 43. Time Out produces a weekly magazine available at most newsstands and bookstores. Its listings for events, bars, and restaurants are by far the most comprehensive and easiest to use for visitors to the city. 160edit Windy City Times. 44. Free weekly LGBT newspaper. 160edit The Daily Herald. The Daily Herald is wide serving suburban newspaper based in Arlington Heights, a Chicago suburb. 160edit Religious services edit The spectacular Bah Temple There are places of worship all over the city the front desk of your hotel will almost certainly be able to direct you to one nearby. Otherwise, the following are centrally located in either the Loop or the Near North. unless otherwise noted. For churches of specific Orthodoxies, check in neighborhoods that feature communities with ties to that region. Theres a majestic Orthodox church in Ukrainian Village. for eksempel. Evangelical Christian ministries are mostly on the South Side, with some historic churches in Bronzeville. For the Bahai faith, visit the Bahai Temple in Wilmette. easily accessible by the CTA Purple Line. Anshe Sholom Bnai Israel. 540 W Melrose St ( Belmont Red Line ), 1 773 248-9200. 45. Modern Orthodox Judaism. In a remarkably beautiful building by the lake. Shacharit Su 8:30AM, M, Th 6:45AM, Tu W, F 7AM Mincha Su-Th 7:45PM. 160edit Armitage Baptist Church. 2451 N Kedzie Blvd. ( Logan Square Blue Line ), 1 773 384-4673. 46. Sunday worship 9:30AM, 11AM, and 6PM. 160edit BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. 4N739 IL Route 59, Bartlett. 1 630 213 2277. 47. Everyday worship 11:30 AM Aarti. Gratis. 160edit Chicagos Central Synagogue. 15 W Delaware Place ( Chicago Red Line ), 1 312 787-0450. 48. Conservative Judaism. Shabbat services Sa 9:15AM. 160edit Chicago Loop Synagogue. 16 S Clark St ( MadisonWabash BrownPurpleGreenOrangePink Line ), 1 312 346-7370. 49. Traditional Judaism. Shachris Sa 9AM, Su 9:30AM Mincha Sa 3:45PM, Su 4:15PM, M-F 1:05PM Maariv 4:45PM. 160edit Chicago Sinai Congregation. 15 W Delaware Pl ( Chicago Red Line ), 1 312 867-7000. 50. Liberal Reform Judaism. Torah study Sa 10:30AM Shabbat Eve service F 6:15PM, Sunday service 11AM. 160edit Christ the Savior Orthodox Church. 927 N LaSalle Dr ( Chicago Red and Brown line ), 1 312 202-0423 ( fax. 1 312 202-0427 ), 51. OCA parish with services in English. Saturday Great Vespers 4:30pm. Sunday Liturgy 9:15am. Wednesday Daily Vespers 6:30pm. 160edit Downtown Islamic Center. 231 S State St ( Jackson Red Line ), 1 312 939-9095. 52. M-F 10:30AM-5:30PM. Friday prayers: Khutba 1:05PM Aqama 1:30PM (1st Friday Jamaa), Khutba 2:05pm Aqama 2:30pm (2nd Friday Jamaa). 160edit Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. 10915 Lemont Rd, Lemont, IL. 1 630 972-0300. 53. M-F 10AM-8PM. 25 miles southwest of Chicago. Call temple to schedule priest services. 160edit Holy Name Cathedral. 735 N State St ( Chicago Red Line ), 54. Open for private prayer or reflection from 5:30am-7pm. Flagship of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Sunday Masses at 7am, 8:15am, 9:30am (incl sign language), 11am, 12:30pm, and 5:15pm. See website for Saturday, weekdays, and Holy Days schedules, as well as other sacraments. 160edit Saint James Cathedral. 65 E Huron St ( Chicago Red Line ), 1 312 787-7360. 55. Episcopalian services. Office hours M-F 9am-4pm. Eucharist Su 8am, 10:30am W 5:30pm Th, F 12:10pm 160edit Foreign consulates edit Heres a quick list of foreign consulates in Chicago: Get out edit Chicago Suburbs edit Forest preserves are prevelant on the far north, northwest, and southwest sides, and into the nearby Chicagoland suburbs. They are excellent for biking, jogging, picnics, and various outdoor activities. Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL is an outdoor stadium that hosts several sporting events and concerts including the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. It is located on Harlem Avenue south of the Stevenson ExpresswayInterstate 55. An express bus runs from the Midway station on the CTA Orange Line on event days. The Brookfield Zoo . which is Chicagolands other world-class zoo, is loacted in nearby Brookfield, IL. Though not accessible via the CTA, the Hollywood station on METRAs Burlington Northern line is 2 blocks away. It is located on 31st Street close to the Eisenhower ExpresswayInterstate 290. Evanston is over the northern border of Chicago. In addition to Northwestern University . the city has a vibrant downtown area, some historical homes scattered about, and a lovely lakefront. Just beyond that is Wilmette. with the fascinating Bahai Temple . Both suburbs are accessible via the CTA Purple Line. The Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL is a 385 acre garden featuring 25 display gardens, four natural habitats, and 2.5 million plants. Though not accessible by the CTA, the Braeside station along METRAs Union Pacific North line is nearby. It is located on Lake Cook Road near the Edens ExpresswayInterstate 94 and US Route 41. In the same category as the Chicago Botanic Garden is the Morton Arboretum in western suburb of Lisle, IL. It hosts over 186,000 catalogued plants, the largest restored Prairie in Chicagoland, 16 miles (26 km) of hiking trails and nine miles (14 km) of roadways for drivingbicycling on 1700 acres. The Lisle station on METRAs Burlington Northern line is about 2 miles away. It is located on IL Route 53 near the Reagan TollwayInterstate 88. Naperville has a wonderful and trendy downtown area. It boasts numerous restaurants, shops, and a riverwalk. It is located on The Reagan TollwayInstertate 88 or near the Naperville Station on METRAs Burlington Northern line. Schaumburg is the shopping hub of Chicagos Northwest Suburbs. Its home to one of the top 10 largest malls in the United States, Woodfield Mall . and has a wide range of shopping and entertainment offerings. It is located off of the Jane Adams (I-90, Kennedy from OHare Airport to Chicago) about 15 miles northwest of the Chicago OHare International Airport. Oak Park was the home of architecture legend Frank Lloyd Wright. The village boasts many houses that were designed by him and his home and studio are now a museum. Walking tours to see his designs are a must for anyone who appreciates architecture. The museum and beautiful downtown Oak Park are located near the Oak Park CTA Green Line station or not too far from the Eisenhower ExpresswayInterstate 290. Ravinia is the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The arts and crafts style architecture coupled with a dazzling array of acts make this a classic summer destination for Chicagoans and tourists. Bring food, a blanket, wine, and a citronella candle buy anything you forgot on-site. The Ravinia Park station on METRAs Union Pacific North line stops at the park gates and a return train waits for late-ending concerts. It is located on Half-Day Road about a mile from the Edens ExpresswayInterstate 94 and US Route 41. Elsewhere in Illinois edit Six Flags Great America has the biggest and wildest roller coasters in Illinois. It is located off of Interstate 94 in Gurnee . Historic Galena. is great for hiking, sightseeing, and antiquing. Drive here in just over 3 hours via Interstate 90 and US Route 20. Peoria is in some ways a miniature Chicago. It is located about about 3 hours southwest of Chicago via Interstates 55 and 74. Springfield is the Illinois state capital and a city closely tied to Abraham Lincoln. This final resting place of the 16th president of the United States is located about 3 12 hours south of Downtown Chicago on Interstate 55. Starved Rock State Park . defined by its numerous canyons and waterfalls, sits on over 2600 acres. It is located near the junction of Interstates 39 and 80, about 2 hours southwest of Downtown Chicago. The Quad Cities bridge the Mississippi River forming a unique metropolitan area on the border of Iowa and Illinois. They sit about 3 hours west of Downtown Chicago on Interstates 80 and 88. Indiana edit The Indiana Dunes are a moderate drive away, and are also accessible via the South Shore commuter rail. If youve enjoyed the beaches in Chicago, you owe the Indiana Dunes a stop thats where all the sand came from. Taking the SkywayInterstate 90 to the Indiana Toll Road is the easiest way to visit. Gary is just over the border on the Skyway, with a skyline that rivals Chicagos for strength of effect industrial monstrosity, in this case with casinos, urban ruins, and a few entries by Prairie School architects Frank Lloyd Wright and George Maher. You can drive to Gary on the Indiana Toll RoadInterstates 8090. South Bend is about a two hour drive to the east or a simple ride on the South Shore from Millennium Station. It is most famous as the home of the University of Notre Dame but also has a history as the location of former automobile manufacturer Studebaker. Another half an hour drive east to Elkhart County will land you in Northern Indiana Amish country. Both are accessible via the Indiana Toll RoadInterstates 8090. The South Shore terminates at the South Bend Airport. Indianapolis is about a three hour drive southeast of Chicago and is worth a visit if you have time. Just follow Interstate 94 to Interstate 65. Also just over the Skyway (before you reach Gary) is East Chicagos bizarre 19th century planned community, Marktown . which looks like a small English village totally incongruous with the gigantic steel mills and the worlds largest oil refinery which surround it. Michigan edit Further along the lake from the Indiana Dunes are Michigans dunes and summer resorts in Harbor Country. Keep your eyes open because notables such as former Mayor Richard M. Daley, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer, and others summer here. This region, well-known for its wineries and fresh fruit, is about an hour and a half drive from Chicago on Interstate 94. Saint Joseph amp Benton Harbor are two towns about 2 hours northeast of Chicago. St. Joseph sits on a bluff that overlooks Silver Beach State Park and Lake Michigan. The view will knock your socks off - especially at sunset. St. Joseph has numerous shops and various festivals throughout the summer. It is easily accessible via Interstate 94. Grand Rapids is the second-largest metro area in Michigan and is home to a thriving craft beer industry. Annual festivals such as ArtPrize and Laugh Fest draw thousands to the area. Additionally, many great restaurants and activities populate this growing city and Lake Michigans picturesque beaches are only 30 minutes away. Take Interstate 94 to Interstate 196. Detroit has many of Chicagos most hated sports rivals. Although it has fallen on hard times, it has a musical and architectural heritage comparable to the Windy City. It is a little over 4 hours away on, you guessed it, Interstate 94. Wisconsin edit Lake Geneva. across the Wisconsin border, is the other big summer getaway. Nearby are the Kettle Moraine state parks, with good mountain biking. Madison is located about two and half hours from Chicago on I-90 and via Van Galder buses. It is a vibrant city home to the giant University of Wisconsin and is known for its lively downtown, thriving culture, and beautiful scenery. Milwaukee and its venerable breweries are less than two hours from Chicago on I-94, via Amtrak, and by intercity bus services. Spring Green is an easy weekend trip from Chicago, about three and a half hours from town on I-90. Its the home of two unique architectural wonders: Frank Lloyd Wrights magnificent estate Taliesin . and Alex Jordans mysterious museum The House on the Rock . The Wisconsin Dells are another (wet) summer fun destination, just three hours north of the city by car (I-9094), also accessible by Amtrak train. Cedarburg is a popular festival town with a charming downtown featured on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located 20 miles north of downtown Milwaukee. Take 1-94 to Milwaukee and continue north on I-43. Routes through Chicago