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…
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…
We’ve been talking about, and looking for, a “retirement home” for several years and have been driving our friends and family nuts every time we commit to a different part of the country. We’ve considered dozens of areas and looked Read more…
A Main Street that stretches over a half-mile with over 125 boutiques, galleries and shops? 28,000 square-feet of antiques? Ireland in Illinois? A new house on Lake Michigan? It’s all inside this week’s Date Day adventure to Galena. Usually our 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…
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…