We’ve missed the tulips the last couple years as we always forget they bloom in April and May. This year was finally different! The weather was perfect, the tulips were at their peak and love was in the air. If Read more…
We enjoyed our first Chicago’s Quirkiest Sites Date Day so much that we decided to do it again. This time we found more dead people, some cool terra cotta houses and a shit fountain. Continue reading to learn all about Read more…
Where can you find the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere, a boulder dedicated to a tree, a cosmic ray detector and a concrete Cadillac? The answer, of course, is right here in Chicago. We did a little research Read more…
Cooperstown has the Baseball Hall of Fame, Canton has the Football Hall of Fame and Springfield has the Basketball Hall of Fame. Each draw people from around the world to pay homage to the best of the best in their Read more…
Every year we have a Chicago Christkindlmarket Date Day and every year we freeze our butts off. To make matters worse, by the time we visit, they’re usually out of the year’s commentative wine mugs. Today was finally different! It Read more…
We all love Chicago in the Spring, Summer and Fall, but tend to hunker down in the Winter and don’t get out as much. To help alleviate some of the Wintertime blues, we’ve created a list of our favorite Winter Read more…
Today our Date Day took us on a journey through three new exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1960’s Hairy Who, 1600-1800 Japanese Ukiyo-e and Tomma Abts’ modern abstracts. Each was interesting and compelling in completely different ways and Read more…
It was a little chilly and rainy, so we decided to continue our quest to visit all the lesser known museums around Chicago. We set the navigation system for Noble Square and soon found ourselves spending our Date Day at Read more…
Where can you find the Batmobile, a vintage Duesenberg collection, dozens of kiddie rides and a Show Biz Pizza place? Toss in four antique stores, military equipment and a jet plane or two and you’ve got the Volo Auto Museum. Read more…
Everything tastes better in a bacon bowl, Lord Farquaad doesn’t wear a crown and kneeling, naked nymphs are pretty cool. We learned all that, and much more, antiquing our way through Kankakee County on today’s Date Day. We actually got Read more…