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The transformers lineup at the Chicago Auto Show
So, you still want to go to the Chicago Auto Show even in the recession? A lot pf people do actually. There were a lot of people there even though people aren’t really buying cars right now.
Here is your guide to leaving your checkbook at home and still [...]
January 30th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Consumer News, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | 1 Comment
Chicago is known as much for it’s Blues and Jazz music as it is for it’s pubs and bars. Lucky for us, these two worlds get to celebrate winter together with the Chicago Blues Tour. This Blues Festival is different than most because rather than setting up in one location, the Blues Tour takes visitors [...]
January 16th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Chicago Weather, Jazz & Blues Music, Music Festivals Bands, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Chicago got more snow today and has a forecast of snow every day this week along with below zero temperatures. All this is after getting a foot of snow on this past Saturday and snow on Thursday before that. (January 2009) The snowfall was above average last year in 2007-2008 also (with 60.3 inches of [...]
January 13th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago News, Chicago Weather, The Suburbs, Transportation | 1 Comment
This is a friendly reminder that the CTA train and bus fares will increase on January 1, 2009. Even though the state of Illinois approved the budget increases last year that prevented a fare increase then, the state revenues from sales and income taxes is down in 2008 and 2009 due to the current economic [...]
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Gold Coast Chicago, Grumpy post of the week, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Pilsen, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Transportation | 1 Comment
The Chicago Cubs are turned the Wrigley Baseball Field Stadium into an ice skating rink this winter for an unusual ice skating experience. I am curious to see how this will turn out. I don’t think anyone ever thought that we need an ice rink in the middle of Wrigley Field, but here we go anyway.
The original [...]
December 15th, 2008 | Posted in 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pop Culture, Sports | 1 Comment
From December 5th 2008 through January 4th 2009 the Bank of America Winter Wonderfest will be open at Navy Pier in Chicago. This is one of the many Chicago Christmas events that are perfect for the family to attend while kids are on holiday break. A trip downtown on the metra is always an exciting day for kids. The [...]
December 9th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Downers Grove, Evanston, Holidays & Christmas, Naperville, Neighborhood Festivals, Oak Park, Pop Culture, Schaumburg, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago | 1 Comment
The CTA Holiday train is a festive decorated train that has a Santa Claus in fill regalia on a flat bed car in the middle of the train amidst lots of lights and decorations. The CTA Holiday Train runs from November 23rd through December 23rd ondifferent tracks and lines of the el train system in Chicago.
The first [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Holidays & Christmas, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Transportation | No Comments
Every winter the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago has a Zoolights festival to celebrate the season. The Lincoln Park Zoo is a free admission zoo in the center of Chicago located on the north side of the city. When you get all those zoo lights up for the holiday and a free admission Zoo to see [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Neighborhood Festivals, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Chicago Restaurant Week is back again for 2009. This is a great winter festival type event for gourmet foodies (and the rest of us too). Chicago Restaurant Week is unique because it is an event where 42 130 local fine Chicago restaurants offer three-course prix-fixe menu lunches for $21.95 $22and three-course prix-fixe menu dinners for $31.95 [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Neighborhood Festivals, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions | 2 Comments
I was just viewing this video from Leigh Hanlon on ChicagoCareless.com about how this year’s Macy’s window decorations suck since the company let go their former window designer Amy Meadows and cut the costs to produce the motorized diorama type Christmas holiday displays. In fact they imply that they are so sucky and cheap this year that [...]
December 4th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Grumpy post of the week, Holidays & Christmas, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago | 2 Comments
Chicago gets really cold in the winter so having an outdoor ice rink is no problem downtown. Millennium Park’s ice skating rink opened in 2004 after Skate on State was closed down to accommodate a new building being built across from what was then Marshall Fields.
McCormick Tribune Ice Rink at Millennium Park is located at [...]
December 4th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Holidays & Christmas, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Sports, This Weekend in Chicago | 1 Comment
If you haven’t been to a Renegade Craft fair holiday sale, this weekend if your chance to get some great affordable Christmas gifts for family and friends (and yourself) that are hand made in the USA by very talented artists and crafters. I have become a fan of the Renegade Craft Fairs (when they aren’t rained [...]
December 4th, 2008 | Posted in 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Holidays & Christmas, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions | No Comments