My husband and I are visiting over Easter weekend. This will be our very first time in Chicago (driving from Toledo) and I will be 8 1/2 months pregnant. Our friends are affectionately calling this a ';babymoon';.........We are staying at the Hotel Sax. We will be arriving early Friday afternoon and leaving Easter Sunday in the afternoon. We would love some suggestions of places to go and things to see. We are parking our car and leaving it so if it includes places outside of walking areas, please include mode of transportation. We have navigated Boston and San Francisco so we are good with public transportation but any tips would be great..........
First Time in Chicago, Easter Weekend
www.explorechicago.org - www.chicagoreader.com - www.metromix.com are good resources to see what to do here. The Visiting Chicago section of this web site has a lot of information. Please cruise through previous posts in this forum. Similar questions have been posted.
www.transitchicago.com for public transit information. There%26#39;s a trip planner function on the home page. A CTA visitor pass might be a good idea for your visit.
First Time in Chicago, Easter Weekend
There is so much to see and do. It really depends on what your interests are.
There are tons of museums, parks, restaurants, architecturally-significant buildings, live theatre music venues, etc.
A good reference is the chicago reader, a free paper that has almost all events for the week as well as listings for restaurants by ethnic category or location, museums with current exhibits, what have you. You can see it online at chicagoreader.com or pick one up on the street when you are here.
If you want to go to a play, hottix is a good place to get discounted tickets but you can usually only get them a day prior to the show so if it%26#39;s something you really want to see, you might want to get tickets in advance.
What makes chicago very unique is the neighborhoods and local flavor. I think many tourists miss this as they spend most of their time in shops along michigan ave. For example, go to argyle st on the north side (easy el ride) for some authentic southeast asian food and stop in a small grocery store and see and smell stuff you%26#39;d never seen/smelled before, unless of course you%26#39;ve been to southeast asia. ';maxwell st.'; market is kinda cool but is more sterile and kinda touristy than what it formerly was but it%26#39;s basically a big open,air market on sundays where you can get good food, music, hubcaps and junk and can be fun. it%26#39;s different anyway.
Go to millenium park because it%26#39;s cool. Eat a lot because there are lots of good restaurants. Ride the el around the loop, it%26#39;s a cheap way to get a tour of the city. walk along the lakefront, it%26#39;s pretty. you can take a taxi or tour along the river, kinda nice. architecture tour is more interesting.
congrats on the baby.
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