Visiting Chicago
 

I am off the windy city in May for a week, has anyone on here ever been before?
I watched Billy Connoly's Route 66 last week and there looks to be amazing architecture in the city.

Sears Tower: do the Ferris Bueller thing on the skydeck
Wrigley Field
Soldier Field
Field Museum
Navy Pier
Lots of other stuff...

100%, one of the most amazing skylines of any city in the world. If that really interests you, make sure you go on one of the architectural boat tours, run by the Architecture Foundation (caf.architecture.org/tours).

Other must-see/must-do items:
Evening drink in the bar at the top of the John Hancock tower (ideal time is just before sunset).
Night out at a blues club (Kingston Mines gets my vote, but there are others).
Deep-dish pizza/steak/burger at one or some of the more famous eateries.
Museum of Art.
At least one whole day just taking a wander around downtown and up Michigan Avenue.

Great place to visit, plenty to do and see, and generally very clean and safe :thumb:

Just don't go up any dirty alleys with Nike air max's on, you'll get them robbed :)

"Chicago finished out 2012 with a bang, as it passed a major milestone hitting over 500 murders. Chicago has started off 2013 on the wrong foot, with this past week’s murder rate outpacing 2012’s."

http://www.policymic.com/articles/22...e-skyrocketing

Don't wear your short skirt outside.

Les ;)

As with a lot of large cities, a very large proportion of all violent crime, especially murders, is gang-related, and if you stay out of those areas where that kind of activity goes on you're on pretty safe turf. Chicago's definitely no exception here:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...gs.html?ref=us

That said, I'm still slightly surprised by the 16% rise that's happened in just 2 years since I visited.

Cheers for that will look into booking some tours. :thumb:

Dont worry I wont pack any skirts or Air Max's.

Yeah, sadly it was a week after 9/11, so pretty hostile atmosphere in many places.

The place was nice though, weather was very changeable.
You've got to go see a baseball game while you're there.
Watch out for the black tramps, they seemed pretty aggressive fcukers when I was there, although that could have been to do with 9/11?