Day 02, (Monday, June 30)

Staying in: Chicago, IL
Miles: 0
Time in the car: 0 hours
Weather conditions: Sunny
Pictures: HERE

Events: (Time is giving in CST)
08:30 AM, Wake uuuuppp!
10:30 AM, Leaving the hotel
11:30 AM, Arrived in Chicago Downtown
10:00 PM, Back to the hotel


No so early wake up today to try to compensate previous ones! After showers and refill of the cooler with ice, we are heading to Chicago for our first tourist day. The bus is taking us from the Sofitel up to the train station in Rosemont. A direct train takes us to the loop, the heart of Chicago.

To have an overview of the city, we first climb at the top of the Sears tower (a 110 stories building). Few fact about it, it’s the tallest building in the USA, its base is made of 9 tubes and they stop at different levels, which gives him a nice and original architecture. It was for a while the tallest building in the world. Built in 1973, the Sears company decided to group all resources in a single building. It is now for sale, if anybody has a billion dollars, it’s yours.

After a lunch in an old fashion bar / restaurant, we walk and take the subway to go up town, to the History museum where couple of “bricoles” are shown there. Thanks god it was free, some nice things displayed, but not WONDERFUL!!!

We spent then the afternoon walking, from Lincoln Park, Chicago beach, Nay pier and inside the Loop. See the pictures … 

General impression about this city, I really like the architecture, buildings are original and nice to contemplate (most of them :P), people are nice too, ambiance is much more quiet than NY where everything runs too fast…

Diner in a fashion Italian restaurant. Nice food but the greatest moment was the bathroom!! Yes!! Like in Del Friscos (for the ones who knows), there is a gentleman giving you towels, holding the door, … this one was doing all this, but also some “claquette” while I was doing my little affair :D Pifi and Matthieu still don’t believe me, but, whatever, I had my show!!

Back to hotel with the same train, we fall asleep pretty fast after that long walking tourist day!