The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Fine Art (SOFA) is planned for Festival Hall in Navy Pier in Chicago on November 6-9. This is an amazing contemporary art show and well worth the admission to attend. The work on display at SOFA ranges from glass to ceramics to textiles and sculpture. Even if you are not [...]
October 28th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Art Galleries and Museums, Chicago News, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | 1 Comment
Wow Bao is a recent addition to the restaurants in the loop right next to the Chicago EL Train State and Lake train station. I pass the restaurant every day on my way home from work and thought it might be good to try. I like Asian food and Chinese dumplings especially the ones with a bread-like dough and BBQ [...]
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Chicago Loop, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Grumpy post of the week | No Comments
Boutique Hotels are gaining popularity in Chicago and across the country. You would think that all the Hotels in Downtown Chicago are huge skyscraper complexes that have thousands of rooms and no individuality. The truth is that in addition to the large chain hotels many small luxury boutique hotels have popped up in Chicago and [...]
September 18th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Transportation | 1 Comment
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I have been to the Chicago Inaternational Film Festival every year for the past 3 years and it has been an event not to miss in Chicago. The Chicago International Film Festival runs for two weeks from October 16th to 29th showing scheduled independent movies from all over the world at three theater locations in the city. [...]
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Neighborhood Festivals, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
The word Staycation has gotten popular latley since gas, food and utilities have gotten so expensive and no one is really interested in traveling far away and generating a lot of costs in the process. So, Chicago Weekend Fun suggests a mini Chicago Vacation or staycation this weekend to make up for the lost vacation. [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Art Galleries and Museums, Chicago Loop, Chicago Small Business Technology & Innovation, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago, Transportation | No Comments
This year the Chicago Windy City Wine Festival is being held on September 5th and 6th at Daley Plaza downtown in Chicago. The Wine Festival starts on Friday evening at 4pm and goes until 10 pm. It continues on Saturday afternoon at 3 pm and is open until 10 pm again. Tickets are available to purchase for [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in 312, Chicago Loop, Gold Coast Chicago, Neighborhood Festivals, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Have you ever needed a zip code to find out an address or mail a letter to someone and needed their zip code? I run into this problem a lot so here are the zip codes I have been able to compile from a few different places on the web. There are Chicago neighborhood zip [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in 312, 630, 773, 847, Chicago Consumer News, Downers Grove, Evanston, Gold Coast Chicago, Hyde Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Real Estate Condos, Schaumburg, Skokie, Sports, The Suburbs | 3 Comments
I watch the 2008 Chicago Red Bull Flutag event commercials and I can’t help see the resemblance between that 1980’s movie called “Magnificent men in their Flying Machines“. The theme song sings that title then says “they go updidy up up then they go downdidy down down”. The Chicago Red bull Flutag event couldn’t be more [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Oprah Winfrey (and the Chicago Oprah Show Harpo Productions Team) are taping the 23rsd season premier episode Wednesday September 3rd in Millennium Park in the Pritzker Pavilion with all the gold medal winning Olympic athletes. (150 Olympians!!) This is a huge deal in Chicago because the admission to see the show is free because it is in Millennium Park. [...]
September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in 312, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Sports | No Comments
The Labor Day Weekend and Holiday Monday are so jam packed with events you won’t be able to stay home for long. Both in the City of Chicago and in the suburbs there are large events and parades happening in addition to all the shopping sales all over Chicagoland. The Chicago Jazz Festival is this weekend, [...]
August 29th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 630, Chicago Loop, Jazz & Blues Music, Music Festivals Bands, Naperville, Neighborhood Festivals, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Michigan Avenue has been a shopping, vacation and hotel stay destination in the midwest for more than 100 years and features some of the most exclusive stores, luxurious hotels and hip fashion boutiques.Michigan Avenue holds the Chicago Water Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park, and north of the Chicago River is known as the Magnificent Mile. Chicago [...]
August 27th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Loop, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions | 1 Comment
I got an email announcing the launch of the new Chicago Drinks site with bar and restaurant reviews from the Chicago Reader and wanted to post about it since there are always new bars, restaurants and clubs opening in the city every week. I find it hard to keep up with all the new places opening [...]
June 18th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Business Local, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Hyde Park, Jazz & Blues Music, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Neighborhood Festivals, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments