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
Every year the Chicago Air and Water Show airplanes buzz our buildings on the Thursday and Friday before the show downtown. They practice the airshow routines over the buildings and the Chicago lakefront. You can see some of the show from here but because we are on Michigan Avenue a lot of the other buildings [...]
August 14th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Chicago Loop, Gold Coast Chicago, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions | 3 Comments
I just heard about this discount from the Hard Rock Chicago Hotel at 230 N Michigan Avenue and wanted to share it. The Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago is an elegantly restored art deco style historic hotel downtown in the loop. It is located almost across the street from Millennium Park and very close to Grant [...]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Loop, Hotels, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Theater Plays Broadway Shows in Chicago | No Comments
In case you haven’t already heard, this year’s most eagerly anticipated concert is coming to the Chicago Theater this week. The Swell Season with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova will be in Chicago on their national Tour following their Oscar win for the songs from the Movie Once. (song: Falling Slowly) And I have found from [...]
June 16th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Music Festivals Bands, Pop Culture, Theater Plays Broadway Shows in Chicago, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
The Chicago Blues Festival is the second most popular and attended event in downtown Chicago and Grant Park every year. The most popular is the Taste of Chicago. I missed Blues Fest this year due to some lack of planning and lack of time. I still think this is an important festival for chicagoans and [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in 312, Chicago Loop, Jazz & Blues Music, Music Festivals Bands, Neighborhood Festivals, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
Chicago Earth Hour 2008 [and 2009] is an event where Chicagoans turn off their lights on Saturday March 29th at 8pm for an hour (local CST time) to see if we can save energy and electricity as well as think about how to lessen our energy use long term. [along with the rest of the world] It is [...]
March 26th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Downers Grove, Evanston, Grumpy post of the week, Hyde Park, IL, Lakeview, Lemont, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Pop Culture, Schaumburg, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Skokie, This Weekend in Chicago, Uptown, Wood Dale, elmhurst, wrigleyville | No Comments
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a special Star Wars exhibit (Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination) running right now through the end of January with all kinds of fun stuff to see. This is a must see for dedicated lifetime Star Wars fans that have all the collectibles and have dressed up [...]
November 15th, 2007 | Posted in 312, Art Galleries and Museums, Holidays & Christmas, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions | No Comments