I saw an article on Alinea in Chicago and would really like to make it sometime. Very high tech kitchen and amazing looking dishes!
Thanks for your response. I always get great advice from this great community!
Just checked this place out. They are not taking reservations at this time but you can get on a waiting list. So book far ahead of time.
Everyone needs to see a MLB game in an original ball park at some point. Wrigley is the only one left where you can still go watch a game where some of baseball's icons actually once stood in the batters box.
We did a round of games in the old stadiums in jr high and hs. We made it to Comiskey, Wrigley, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Yankee Stadium and Tiger Stadium. There were several that were closed in the late 60's early 70's that I would have like to have seen. Would have loved to seen Sportsmans Park in St. Louis where the Browns and Cardinals played alternating schedules for years.
We did a round of games in the old stadiums in jr high and hs. We made it to Comiskey, Wrigley, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Yankee Stadium and Tiger Stadium. There were several that were closed in the late 60's early 70's that I would have like to have seen. Would have loved to seen Sportsmans Park in St. Louis where the Browns and Cardinals played alternating schedules for years.
^^^ This. Wrigley Field is like nothing else.
Take a jacket. At Wrigley, if it's in the 50s (which it very well could be in early June), it might as well be snowing with that wind coming in off of Lake Michigan.
It has been the better part of 20 years since I've been to Chi-town, but I enjoyed my visit each time I went, and I hate big cities. The people I met were friendly, and I never once felt threatened in all the time I spent on the streets--and I walked everywhere I went in downtown Chicago (the times I stayed in town, I stayed at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, at the bend on the river, just down Wacker Drive from the Sears Tower). The closest I came to being uncomfortable was when this dude on Michigan Avenue insisted on shining my boots. He was just trying to sell shoe care products, but I couldn't get him to understand that Justin Apache Bay boots aren't supposed to shine...
We were there a couple of years ago with the fam. We sit a few rows up on the first base side, and there was an older man sitting behind us. We were there pretty early, not a lot of people in the stands. We began to talk, he was 94 years old, still came to every home game that he could, and had been since he was a kid! He had stories about going to Comiskey when the Yankees and Red Sox came to town. "All the good players were American League players" he said lol. He was able see Ruth, Mantle, Robinson, Musial, Aaron, Berra, Paige, Koufax, Hornsby, Gehrig, Mayes, DiMaggio, Ted Williams and even Ty Cobb as a little kid. He'd seen them all. He knows from his parents stories, but doesn't remember the games of Cobb and Ruth. He said those guys were so good about signing baseball cards, and you could write them and they'd write you back. So from that, I'm assuming he had all those autographed cards!! Said his only baseball regret was not being born sooner so that he could see Cy Young lol.
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This about sums it up. Spent my last year in the Navy in North Chicago. Food is great. My kids live in the burbs, which is nice. Gun laws suck. Inner city Chicago.....yuck. I couldn't live in a place with their gun laws, and I hate visiting someplace I can't carry.
Headed out to Chicago. We will be eating at Benny's Chop House on Wednesday night, catch a Cubs-Dodgers game on Thursday and eat at Gibson's Bar and Steakhouse on Friday night. We will free lance the rest of the trip.
