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…
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…
A free gourmet meal at the Merchandise Mart? How does that happen? Well, we told the nice folks at Sub-Zero and Wolf that we were interested in new kitchen appliances (we really are), and they invited us to spend our Read more…
It was a perfect day, so we made plans to park in downtown Chicago, walk to Lincoln Park Zoo and have an outdoor lunch somewhere along the way. With memories of Jonathon Brandmeier’s The Moo-Moo Song dancing in our heads, Read more…
Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah were on to something when they wrote about Lake Shore Drive. On a sunny day, there may not be a more picturesque drive anywhere. Today was sunny. Rather than drive, however, we ditched the car and 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…