Although I grew up about 40 miles southwest of a world-class travel destination–that great big wonderful windy city of Chicago–I tend to take it for granted. And like most people around here, I don’t get there often enough. But whenever I do, I always ask myself, "why don’t I come here more often!" It's a city of contrasts–the old and the new, the North Shore with the South Side, Grant Park and Buckingham Fountain with Millennium Park and Crown fountain, Trump Tower and Marina Towers, the Water Tower and Willis (Sears) Tower. Ethnic neighborhoods that are small cities in themselves...
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