When life hands you an invitation to a wedding in an obscure part of Indiana, you RSVP YES and immediately start planning your trip to Chicago, gastronomic mecca of the Midwest. Four days and as many nights was enough to just scratch the surface of what the city has to offer, though it would take at least a couple weeks to try all the restaurants that I wanted to.
Things we liked: river tour by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the food, Hamilton, the coffee, the 606, the International Museum of Surgical Sciences, food again, the American Writers' Museum.
Things we didn't like: ...
Photos below.
Marina City (aka the Corn Cob Buildings) by architect Bertrand Goldberg.
Mom and me at the Cloud Gate.
Revival Food Hall in downtown is an excellent lunch spot.
Street art.
Library of the International Museum of Surgical Sciences.
Original manuscript of On the Road below a map of Kerouac's travels at the American Writers' Museum.
A biker on the 606, a former railroad line converted to public park.