n*******d 发帖数: 600 | 1 01-13-2011, 09:07 PM
grapico
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Lets see...
in no order.
Top 3 Skyline in world.
Tallest building in North America.
Top 3 Restaurant city in U.S., only 3 with a Michelin Guide.
Gangster history, on one hand people know all about it? now they don't?
Greatest basketball player of all time/statue/united center.
Best Natural History Museum in U.S.
Best Science Museum in U.S.
Top 3-4 Art Museum in U.S. (largest impressionist collection outside of the
Louvre)
Number one orchestra in the United States
Immigrant history.
The city freaking burned down.
The current president of U.S. is from Chicago
A guy called Abraham Lincoln is also from around here.
Skyscraper was invented here, many key classic buildings are in Chicago.
Very easy to get around once you are here.
Plenty of high end hotels to stay at.
Jazz
Blues
Soul
Gospel
House
Indie
epicenters
largest food festival in the world
Joffrey Ballet
Pitchfork
Lollapalooza
It's the 2nd largest "city" in the country.
No other great lake cities? Great Lakes are pretty important and unique,
much more so than a "beach"
Improv
One of the five major world marathons.
The novels of Sandburg, Bellow, Sinclair all set here.
uhh and it isn't a mini New York. Is Munich a mini Berlin? Is Barcelona a
mini Madrid? :/
So if anything like that is your interest, then Chicago should probably be a
Top 5 city.
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/chicago/1174305-chicago-not-top-10-must-visit.html#ixzz1B7eoqess | a*****k 发帖数: 704 | 2
【在 n*******d 的大作中提到】![](/moin_static193/solenoid/img/up.png) : 01-13-2011, 09:07 PM : grapico : Senior Member : Join Date: Oct 2007 : Location: Chicago : 6,492 posts, read 3,562,915 times : Reputation: 2095 : Lets see... : in no order. : Top 3 Skyline in world.
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【在 n*******d 的大作中提到】![](/moin_static193/solenoid/img/up.png) : 01-13-2011, 09:07 PM : grapico : Senior Member : Join Date: Oct 2007 : Location: Chicago : 6,492 posts, read 3,562,915 times : Reputation: 2095 : Lets see... : in no order. : Top 3 Skyline in world.
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