We began our trip to Chicago with a tour of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Opened in 1914, this is the second oldest ballpark in the US (Fenway Park in Boston is the oldest). The tour lasted about 90 minutes and took us through most of the facility and out on to the field. If you go, don’t go on a game day, like we did, since you can’t go to some places (locker rooms, media box, executive/game suites, etc.). Having said that, we still enjoyed our tour and feel we saw quite a bit.
Also, Chicago is not a cheap city! Be prepared to pay for parking on game days. Surprisingly, we talked our way into parking for free since we were there for an early tour and leaving well before the game started.
We stayed in the middle of town so we could walk to all the sights (we find traffic really tough in a big city). There are so many hotels along the river and walking around is fairly easy. This was the view from our hotel room.
Our first evening in town we signed up for an architectural tour of the city by boat. There are a couple of companies in town that provide these tours though it seems one of the best is through Shoreline Sightseeing. Be prepared for information-overload. There is so much to see in a short period of time that you will quickly lose track of where to look. Here are some of the highlights from our trip. (Note: we went on a foggy sunset cruise so we couldn’t see many tops of buildings – which we thought was kind of neat).
One unexpected thing we noticed on our river tour…we could see the cars from under each bridge.
We ended our 1st day walking back along the river and captured two more great views of the city at night.
You two are super…thanks for sharing so much with all of us. Your commentary and photos are very professional and so vivid. Love you guys
What memories especially Wrigley Field, Cubs Park!
Our house was only 6 blocks away and Hans attended many ball games. He also worked for thirteen years within spitting distance from Sears Towers. Did you try Chicago Pizza?? Another landmark restaurant is Berghoffs…a German place downtown.
Thanks for the memories!!
I did an architectural tour when I was in Chicago years ago and loved. Glad you did it too. Very cool!