After discovering Open House Chicago for the first time in 2014 and going into it completely ill-prepared, I approached this year’s event with a bit more planning. One of several similar events that take place around the world, Open House Chicago is a two-day architectural extravaganza that opens up 200 buildings throughout Chicago (and Evanston!) …
I often joke that I only put up with Chicago winters in order to get to Chicago summers. Street festivals, rooftop bars, beer gardens and running along the lake front have been some of my favorite ways to spend summer weekends over the years. This summer seemed to fly by – likely because the temperatures …
I have lived in Chicago for more than a decade, but there are still a lot of places I haven’t seen, things I haven’t done and buildings into which I have never ventured. Sometimes all it takes is a good excuse to do so and Open House Chicago this past weekend provided such an excuse. …
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Parlez vous Francais? I hope that in the very near future, I will be able to answer this question with a resounding “Oui!” The idea of learning French first popped into my head while I was on my career break. As much as it was great to be able to speak Russian to converse with …
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to play tourist here in Chicago a bit. I took a photo tour with photographer Ralph Velasco that spanned several hours on a Friday evening and again early on Sunday morning (he also did two Saturday sessions in which I did not participate). While I conceivably could head to …
When I first moved to Chicago in 2001, my summer plans consisted of working, studying for the bar exam and occasionally going out for a beer to break the monotony of studying for the bar exam. My circle of friends consisted of law school classmates and colleagues with whom I had worked the previous summer …
The fact that I refer to Chicago as the Windy City in the title of this post should give away the fact that I am not originally from here. As I learned in some article on some other website last week, “real” Chicagoans don’t call it the Windy City. I guess 12+ years here hasn’t …
A Chicago Transplant’s Guide to Visiting the Windy City Read More »
Among the high-rises that tower over Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, there are a few regal greystone buildings that date back to the early twentieth century, if not earlier. If you weren’t looking for it, you would probably never realize that, among those greystones sits one of the only museums in the country dedicated to …
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The Field Museum. The Art Institute. The Museum of Science and Industry. These are just a few of the museums that most visitors have on their to-do lists when they visit Chicago. But the Windy City has dozens – yes, dozens – of other museums that may be worth checking out depending on your interests. …
I ran my first marathon in 2008. It was more than 80 degrees and I felt like I might die. I struggled just to make it to the finish line. Nonetheless, I was hooked and have finished four more marathons since then, my last back in 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia at the start of my …
