Anyone planning a trip to Chicago probably has the big to-do’s on their list of places they want to go. There are museums, the Shedd Aquarium, the formerly named Sears Tower, Navy Pier, and other famous attractions to see. But a trip to Chicago that only encompasses these tourist destinations won’t give you a taste ...
Chicago has a lot of things to do and see if you are going there to visit. Here are 10 unusual things to do in Chicago and details about each one. Chicago has a bus ride called the Weird Chicago tour, which goes through the city and is with ghosts, mystery, history and some weirdness. ...
The “The Wonder Years,” starring Fred Savage as the likable Kevin Arnold coming of age in the late ’60s, aired from 1988-1993 on ABC. Though it had some less than stellar episodes, the show did manage to blend pathos, humour, and deeper mediations on the meaning of family into something original. Part of its appeal ...
At the time I made my reservation, I didn’t know the hotel I selected had a reputation for being haunted. I had pretty much picked it at random, based on price, location and flight plan. It wasn’t until later when I was fooling around on the Internet that I saw the Congress Plaza Hotel is ...
The twin psychobiographical threads of Jake LaMotta and Martin Scorsese that unite the film Raging Bull reach their ultimate synthesis in the sequence that takes place on February 14,1951–the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre–when the Bronx Bull loses his middleweight title to Sugar Ray Robinson in their fifth and final meeting. To say that Raging Bull ...
The city of Chicago is, as you might know, an old one. It is filled with old buildings and old architecture. It is also a city with a very violent history. It is the city of Al Capone. It is the city where the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre happened. It is the same city of ...