http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html Chicago is my kind of town. OK, those are the lyrics to a Frank Sinatra song, but it still fits. Its nicknames are the Second City and Windy City; I like to call it New York Light. It has history and attitude like New York, just on a smaller scale. While it may not have as much to offer the novice tourist as the Big Apple, Chicago should not play a back-up role to its more media-centric sister to the east. It has a little something for all types of travelers: sports, culture, food, theatre, architecture, outdoor entertainment, and Oprah. What more could you ask? http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#0 07cc30a3-f5e5-489d-b238-7a1f2c6475a5 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20roving%20professor/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20roving%20professor/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Roving Professor visited Chicago twice in 2007. Once for to make a presentation and once to vacate with his son. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#1 394c8e71-cfe4-48aa-a993-478f6e0434f4 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20wrigly%20roving%20professor/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20wrigly%20roving%20professor/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This was Wrigley Field for Father’s Day 2007. We actually didn’t go to the game, but it was a fun atmosphere to be around.</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#2 a12070d6-bd32-4fce-a782-62bbbd959b3d http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20bean%20roving%20professor/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20bean%20roving%20professor/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Chicago Bean. A nice nouveau landmark near the Lake.</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#3 98176965-fddc-4e03-9dff-63ebd0d94cf5 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20pizzerira%20uno/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20pizzerira%20uno/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is a look at the famous Chicago deep dish pizza at Pizzerira Uno. Definitely worth it. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#4 4bc9aaf0-8ca8-48de-88ae-535996f82ee2 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20pizzeria%20uno/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20pizzeria%20uno/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Chance and I at Pizzeria Uno. Looks grungy, but that is all part of the character. Just like me. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#5 de8cdb79-6e07-4ae1-9303-1e71adc65828 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20bean/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20bean/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Bean as scene with the city in the background. A popular tourist photo-op. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#6 e506ae0b-ff46-4ecc-8b50-186786453e58 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20Sears%20tower/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20Sears%20tower/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This was once the world’s tallest building and the Sears Tower. Now it is neither. I don’t know its current ranking or name. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#7 91716184-67f7-4138-9afb-1bb8d04db88c http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20fountatin/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20fountatin/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is the Buckingham Fountain, also known as the fountain in the intro to Married With Children. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#8 9970a87e-0dbe-4bf5-9e99-9a011df8e7a9 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20wrigley%20field/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20wrigley%20field/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Wrigley Field again. Cubs win! Cubs win!</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#9 5ebf604a-62d2-4506-82bd-97769a9804e7 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20dining%20hilton/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20dining%20hilton/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is not exactly fine dining in Chicago. Take out food eaten on an ironing board in a $200 a night Hilton. Classy. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#10 6d28d04b-536f-4238-827c-73504007e259 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20billy%20goat%20tavern/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20billy%20goat%20tavern/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is the Billy Goat Tavern made famous from the Saturday Night Live skit. Which skit? Read the sign.</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#11 cb2cc508-148b-4188-984c-99706ab8bbe4 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Chicago is my kind of town.</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#12 5fc4ad6a-d925-4e7d-8a8b-62216d1dc925 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20hotel/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20hotel/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This was my hotel room when I presented in Chicago. They gave me a suite with no bed. Ha. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#13 143aaff0-6953-483f-93e3-85988660dc15 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20hotel%20view/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20hotel%20view/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This was the view of the river from my hotel room.</p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#14 ac4d21e4-79ba-406e-8a79-53124e5fa3bd http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20presentation/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20presentation/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is the room where I made my presentation about online learning for people of varying learning disabilities. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#15 f71bf481-1ec2-4bc6-9f93-d617aed12a30 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20slush/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/Chicago%20slush/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Sometimes it snows in April. Prince was right. </p></div></div> http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago.html#16 ddd449a3-fa12-4a52-a61a-f69b78a23fb8 http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20roving/thumb.jpg http://www.rovingprofessor.com/Roving/Chicago_files/Media/chicago%20roving/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">My presentation was in April, but it still snowed, or rather slushed, during my visit. </p></div></div>