Grand Motel West Chicago
4925 W Madison St Chicago, Illinois, 60644, United States
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It's 106 miles to Chicago...
... get in the
picture too. However, Santa insisted we both sit on his knee for the
picture- at the same time. He was just a tiny little old man too so
we were trying not to put our weight on him- in order not to crush
him. All in all Santa Claus was a very nice man.
That night we went to see the Black
Hawks play the Phoenix Coyotes with Brett and Emma. Brett very kindly
treated us to the tickets which were superb seats with a fab view.
The match ...
C-H-I-C-A-G-O
... you have to do something you’ve never done before… or something like that? Anyway the next thing I knew I was saying goodbye to Michigan and hello to Chicago.
I have one word to describe my first impression of Chicago and that is WOW! It was everything that I had always imagined it to be, the first thing I saw as we got closer was red brick buildings just like I’ve always seen on the movies. Chicago is massive; it’s a combination of both old and new ...
Ghosts and Gangsters
... on board walked over to one side to watch a band that was playing on the other side of the river. I got the creeps just floating over that part of the water.
From there we were on down to the Jewelers Building which was originally created for Chicago’s diamond merchants. To enhance the security of the building and to reduce theft, the building featured a central lift that could take cars as high up as the 22nd floor. Jewelers would drive their cars ...
Captains Blog - Days 19 to 51
Shalom! So this will be a sparse recollection of what has happened over the past few weeks because although much has happened, i remember very little of it. So here goes.... I went to this festival thing called the 'Full Moon Jam Festival' and it was... interesting to say the least. There were people playing bongos and steel drums as far as the eye could see, there were fire eaters and tiny children playing with hula hoops made of fire, knife jugglers ...
A Tourist in Chicago
... up there before heading back down. They do have a much larger gift shop down stairs.
To give my boys the experience of multiple modes of transportation, we took a cab over to the Field Museum. I took a picture of the boys with Soldier Field in the background, but that’s about as close as we came. We got hot dogs and Gatorade from the street vendor outside. Even though this was a Tuesday, I was expecting a long line and was surprised that we ...


