TRAVEL1 - Chicago, My Kind of Town
Pat and I try to travel a lot, under the theory that “do it while we still can.” In May we reached deep into our “bucket list” and selected a trip to Chicago. Neither of us had ever been to the windy city before, having only stopped briefly at O’Hare or Midway airports on cross country trips. We scheduled this trip so that we could attend an afternoon Cubs baseball game. Other top-of-the-list objectives included taking Chicago’s famous Architecture Tour and sampling Chicago’s classic food, including deep-dish pizza, hot dogs, Italian beef, and steak. So we set out on a three-day trip from Tucson, plus travel days on each end. We took the easy-to-use and inexpensive public transit elevated railway from Midway Airport to the downtown area. We stayed at the Wyndam Grand Hotel, mitigating the cost of the trip somewhat using time-share points. Our hotel was along the Chicago River, across from the Trump Tower, Chicago’s glass-covered second tallest building at 98 floors.