Things to do in Chicago?

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Coming out there in January. Aware me of some stuff to check out NT fam. Where should I avoid? What are some bars/restaurants that I should put on my list?

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there's plenty of eating, shopping, clubbing. What do you want to do specifically while here?
 
I light seeing sights. I'm not too big on new dining experiences, but I figured I'd try the deep dish pizza you guys have out there.

Looking for a few good bars/lounges, not too big on clubs like that.

I'll be with my girl, if that matters.
 
Unless you have heavy coats do not go to the navy pier. It's cold as **** and you can see the wind coming towards you to disrespect your outerwear.

That's all I got I've only been twice .
 
This forum is garbage now when you need info on cities. Try regional

I want to go to Chicago before the end of the year
 
I wouldn't say that. The guys in DC were pretty helpful when I made the thread asking them for help. Had a great time off some of their recommendations.

I always thought Chicago had a pretty good presence on the general forum. The regional forums all seem dead.
 
You should hit the clubs in Wicker Park/Bucktown. My office is in that area. It goes down in a good way. Rush St. is always solid.

Are you and your girl into museums? We got plenty. The Chicago History Museum is slick, and the Museum of Science and Industry has been my favorite since kindergarten. You should check out a Bulls/Blackhawks game while you're here if possible.

For the pizza, there's Uno, Homerun Inn, Lou Malnatti's, Gino's East and Giordano's. We got whatever you want in terms of cuisine though. You can go far past pizza here. There are a few breweries you may like here as well .
 
Good looking out man. Ripped. I'll PM you when I'm in town to figure out stuff further. :smokin
 
Art institute of chicago is must
Get a hot dog (no ketchup)
China town has good cheap eats...like less than 10 bucks
Hit up ty (donjuans) store ldrs
Dont try deep dish
And this is gonna sound really touristy but the sky view on willis tower.....go there an hour b4 the sunsets.
 
handullz said:
Go to Harold's chicken

Get a six piece with extra mild sauce, word to Freddie Gibbs

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This! If you're really hungry grab the 8 wing dinner. Get mild sauce on it and on the side.

Their mild sauce is more sweet without any real heat.
 
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Hit up Randolph street. Great bars and food. Feel free to hit the PM if you've got any specific Q's. You'll also be staying by some solid bars like Fremont.
 
I spent some time in the Chi this Summer. I'm from NY, so I dig the second city's vibe. Forgive me, I can't really recall the names of all the spots I went to, I was with people from out there. But I from what I experienced, Harold's Chicken was excellent (like a high end Chicken Spot). I got some good Jamaican food from a spot called "Jerk Modern Jamaican Grill" that spot was cool, it had a DJ inside. Mexican, the tacos i got from out there were amazing. Also, if you are into Puerto Rican, you gotta try the jibarito from Humboldt Park region.

Night life wise, I mostly was out in the Wicker Park region. The bars and such were cool. There's also shopping in that area. Overall I had a great time. Loved it out there.
 
Chicago is a great city. Been there multiple times

If your into sight seeing then copp that Chicago city pass for Museums and whatnot. Actually you should price it out to see if it would be worth it since you are going in the winter and maybe not a lot of people do sightseeing at that time. Citypass allows you to skip the long lines.

Off the top of my head:

Chicago Art Museum
SHedd Aquarium
Hancock observatory over Willis Tower imho
LDRS 1354
Gibson Steakhouse
Jake Melnicks CornerTap - To this day they have the best chicken wings I've ever had
I would have said take the River Boat Cruise cuz it passes by some great architecture and a chocolate factory that makes that whole section of the river smell like chocolate but in January that's probably not the most poppin thing to do
SpaceTime Tanks - if your into that sorta thing
Chicago public library is a cool builiding to check out
The Bean of course
Ride the "El"
Museum of Science and Industry
Get some deep dish at Digiordano's
THey got a health food place called Freshii and I would try their banana nut crunch shake
Check out the chicago theatre to see if they have any good shows coming up

GL!
 
Personally i dont give a **** wat people put on anything but Once i had a dog with only mustard i never went back.

You have to grow up sometime," says council president Janet Riley, a.k.a. "the Queen of Wien" in her Hot Dog Etiquette video.

So apparently it's immature to use ketchup on your hot dog. Maybe that's because ketchup is so sugary, and you're supposed to be over that as an adult and into good ol' salty meats with chopped onions, vinegary mustard, or chili. You want to enhance the all-beef dog, not camouflage it. Ketchup is what parents smother over everything to make kids eat their food, after all.

Another idea: The dislike goes back to the early days of baseball, when to protect patrons from sugar-loving yellow jacket and flies, hot dog vendors only carried mustard with them. Thanks, guys.

People are pretty frank about the horror that this pairing creates. "Ketchup on your hot dog is the end of the world,” says Bill Savage in theChicago Tribune. Savage gave a “Ketchup: The Condiment of Controversy" talk at the Chicago Hot Dog Festival last summer. For Savage, you're not a real Chicagoan if you put the tomato-based condiment on your dog. It's an identity thing. That's not the way his people do it. Vienna dog vice president Bob Schwartz even wrote a book about it: "Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog," about Chicago's hot dog stands.

When you push people past their outrage and spouting of the 11th commandment — Thou Shalt Not Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog — and make them give a good reason, it always comes back to sugar.

"Ketchup smothers the flavor of the hot dog because ketchup makers add sugar to their products," says Cecil Adams in his reply to this very question on The Straight Dope. "That takes the edge off the highly acidic tomatoes, but it takes the edge off everything else, too." Adams merely repeated the reasoning given by Mel Plotsky, sales manager for the David Berg hot dog company in Chicago.

As if you didn't already know, Chicago is one of the Hot Dog Holy Cities. It's usually an all-beef Vienna dog with yellow mustard, chopped onion, relish, pickle spears, sliced tomatoes, hot peppers, and celery salt. In New York, it's a Sabrett-brand dog with brown mustard, stewed tomatoes and onions, and sauerkraut. In the South, they like coleslaw on it.

So with all these regional taste differences, why the nationwide fuss over the red stuff on the loveable tube steak? "Because 'no ketchup on a hot dog' isn’t a regional taste, but rather a universal condemnation," writes Michigan Daily food columnist Giancarlo Buonomo in 2014. "One of the heads of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in NYC referred to putting ketchup on a hot dog as a sign of a 'less sophisticated' palate."

Buonomo continues, calling it an "intuitively disgusting food pairing, like cinnamon in spaghetti sauce or blue cheese with chocolate syrup" — before he then refutes everything he just said, calling it all elitism. Having a strongly defined dislike is a way to place yourself in an imaginary in-group of people who know food and what's proper in the food world, he says.

Food & Wine magazine categorizes this popular no-no in the same list as drinking your wine with ice, eating your pizza with a fork, and dipping your french fries in mayonnaise. All of these rules are ridiculous, writer Justine Sterling says.

Next time you're in shorts and sandals at the barbecue party or summer fair, you might hesitate before grabbing that Heinz bottle or packet and squeezing out a red zig-zag across your frankfurter. But if you like it, don't hesitate. We won't judge. (Yes, we will.)
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