The Chicago Traveler

This week’s architectural attraction looks like it came from the cartoon show, The Jetsons. The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, officially opened in September 2003, is just one of several eye-appealing structures at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Before the building was constructed, there was merely a parking lot which several students walked across to get to class, while the noisy Green Line train passed overhead. Several of the campus functions, like the bookstore and student organization offices, were spread across campus. The Campus Center brought all these offices together along with a new cafeteria. But the train runs right over the …read more

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The relationship between the White Sox, the city of Chicago, and U.S. Cellular Field has just as much of a rocky history as that of the Chicago Bears.

By the 1980s, Comiskey Park was the oldest park in baseball and was slowly falling apart. Even with a new video board and luxury suites, several structural engineers determined that the park would not be usable in only a few short years. And so, the hunt was on for a new home.
Like the Bears before them, the White Sox made plans to build a new park in the suburbs. They purchased a 140-acre …read more

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Do you like corn? Do you love corn? The 60th Annual Mendota Sweet Corn Festival begins tonight in Mendota, IL, about two hours west of Chicago. There will be about 50 tons of corn available at this fair, as well as about 80 food and merchandise vendors, live music, and contests. On Sunday, there’s a grand parade at 1:00 p.m. followed by FREE hot buttered corn for all attendees! Every person will get three ears of corn until supplies run out. Tens of thousands of people take advantage of the free general admission every year.
You don’t have to be a …read more

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Sensual Steps is a Chicago boutique that opened just a couple years ago. This store promotes a unique line of contemporary women’s shoes and accessories. But Nicole Jones just wasn’t getting the business she had hoped for in her South Side Sensual Steps Shoe Salon. (Whew, say that five times fast!) So, she decided to take her business to the streets.

Music, cocktails, chocolate, and shoes help create the ideal Girls’ Night Out. But this sexy shoe party comes to you, care of the Heels on Wheels. These gals get all decked out in their pink jumpers and bring the decorations …read more

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When it comes to food, I’m pretty easy to please. Give me a good Chicago-style hot dog, and I’ll be happy. A Chicago-style dog is a steamed or boiled all-beef hot dog (usually Vienna Beef) on a poppy seed bun. It’s then topped with mustard, onion, sweet relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices, sport peppers, and a little celery salt. No ketchup!! Hot dogs are so popular here in Chicago, there are more hot dog stands than Burger King, McDonald’s, and Wendy’s restaurants combined.

In downtown Chicago, one great place to get a Chicago dog and other hot dogs from …read more

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