Our first Date Day was September 2, 2015. We went to Michigan City, explored antique stores, had a nice lunch and started our adventure. Today, we marked 139 weeks in a row by going to Crown Point, IN and doing Read more…
Question: What do deer, a snake and cheeseburgers make? Answer: A pretty good Date Day. Today’s destinations were Black Partridge Forest Preserve in Lemont and Hackney’s in Palos Park. We started our day at smallish, and little known, Black Partridge Read more…
Hackney’s is a Chicagoland institution. Started in Glenview in the 1920’s, the family-owned restaurant chain currently has three locations, two in Glenview and one in Palos Park. Sadly, the locations in Wheeling, Lake Zurich and downtown Chicago have closed. Today was Read more…
Picnics and pig’s ears and peckers, oh my! Spring has finally sprung! After weeks of indoor Date Days, we were able to break out our hiking shoes, tear off our clothes (ok, our coats) and spend the day outside. And Read more…
Today, we tried the best burger in America. Seriously, the best burger in America. At least that’s what Bon Appetit and many others have said about the burger at Au Cheval. People typically wait hours to get a table at Read more…
Boats, Bubbles and Burgers. What do you call a river that was once used as an open sewer by the Union Stock Yards? One that, with so many animal entrails dumped into it, began to bubble with methane gas? Hint, Read more…
Farmhouse Evanston is a farm-to-table restaurant located in downtown Evanston. Its goal is to feature fresh food from the Midwest with an ever-changing seasonal menu. The also have a good list of local beers on tap and offer plenty of Read more…
Ten thousand Indian artifacts, eight thousand Toby jugs and a fried bologna sandwich. How can that not make for a great Date Day? Day two of Spring was too cold to spend outside, so we continued our tour of lesser Read more…
The Little Goat Diner, located in the West Loop, is an upscale take on the classic American diner. At lunchtime, it is crowded, noisy and full of great food! The servers were a little slow, but overall, we loved the Read more…
It was cold outside today, unseasonably cold. Too cold to do anything outside, so we decided to go to the park – the indoor park. How many of you have been to the Garfield Park Conservatory? Probably not many. Most Read more…