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Chi Town

A travel blog entry by itenerant78

We had a blast in Chicago! We arrived in Chicago without a hotel but decided to stay at Marriott over at Midway. The manager mistakingly chardged my credit card with a 17000 authorization, and in componsation for not being able to use my credit card for the weekend, he comped our room and parking. We swam alot in the pool and hottub. On our first …

Chi-Town and Wrigley Field

A travel blog entry by lahardee

Tuesday:
We arrived in Chicago around 4pm after the long boring drive across Indiana. It rained the entire drive and was raining even harder when we got into Chicago. So we decide to take it easy for the night, took advantage of the indoor pool and hot tub, ate the best pizza in the world and caught up on Bryce's favorite show, TRUE BLOOD..

Chicago to Beijing

A travel blog entry by vwuertz

... and haze are heavy, but we’re optimistic that the days will be clear. We finally arrive at the Sheraton, are given our room keys, and attempt to make our way to our rooms. We are not warned that in order to get the elevator to move, you have to put your room key in the slot on the keypad. Once a key is inserted, three room numbers can be inputted on the keypad. It takes us all a bit of time to figure the ...

Milwaukee to Chicago

A travel blog entry by lindakhaas

... and we drove to the Apartment Complex and turned around in the steep driveway. Then we drove south again and pulled down a road and parked and walked back north along the shore. Today it was warm and sunny. We walked for about 45 minutes. We decided not to get on the freeway but took back roads all the way to Chicago. It took forever but we did get to see South Milwaukee, Racine, Waukegan, Kenosha, ...

We Pray, We're Thankful, We're Blessed !

A travel blog entry by ricknelsie

... which separates the main interior from the altar had icons of Christ, Mary, and various other saints. This is very typical of our Ukrainian churches. This particular liturgy was totally in the Ukrainian language. Great for Elsie (Lesia in Ukrainian) as she's fluent in Ukrainian. Me, I can follow along!

The liturgies are pretty much identical in every Ukrainian Catholic Church in the world. Whether it ...