The Chicago Traveler

May 19th, 2008

McCormick Tribune Campus Center Covers Its Tracks

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 […]

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November 27th, 2007

U.S. Cellular Field

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 […]

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August 9th, 2007

Weekend Festivals

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 […]

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May 17th, 2007

Something for the Ladies

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 […]

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May 10th, 2007

Hot Dogs & Wings

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 […]

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