In Chicago for the weekend

[Ohio Celtics Fan]

You guys have any suggestions of places I should check out? This is my first time there so I'm hitting the obvious places but it would be cool to get some suggestions from you guys!

[Edgar]

[Evantime34]

You have to go to the original Uno's, Gino's East or Giardano's. They're all pretty close and all have some of the best Pizza I've ever had.

[celtsrp33]

Chicago is an awesome city!  Go to Kingston Mines if you have any interest in seeing some live Chicago Blues.  Its a great time!  Also, just take a walk down Michigan Ave. - there's a ton to see there.  The original Chicago Blues bar on N Halsted is a really cool place as well. 

[Ed Teach]

Navy Pier is fun, it also has the "Billy Goat Tavern" which is the resturant that the John Bulushi Sat nite live skit "cheese burger, cheese burger, Pepsi no Coke" was based.

There is also Portillo's for italian sausages, you dont have to take my word for it Paul Pierce gave Portillo's a shout out on his twitter page http://twitter.com/paulpierce34

Chicago is a great city and it will be hard to fit everything in you want to do in a weekend, but you will have fun.

[Gainesville Celtic]

what do you like to do? touristy stuff? off the beaten path stuff? nerdy stuff?

I'm not a big fan of the touristy stuff myself. I lived in Chicago for a year + 1/2 and never went to Navy Pier.


The Chicago Architecture Foundation (http://www.architecture.org/) does some terrific walking and driving tours of buildings throughout the downtonw and the city. highly reccomended.

The Sears Tower (or whatever it's called these days) is worth going up to the observation deck --- it's like $8 but you can see the entire city. highly reccomended.

The John Hancock (there's a bar on one of the top floors) is another great way to see the city from above.