Cloud gate is actually part of the Millennium Park.(It located in northwest corner of the park.)When I just arrived Chicago, the first thing was heading to the CLOUD GATE. This is a symbolic attraction seen in several Hollywood movie. The weather was not really good during October. It's CLOUDY and FREEZING.Suddenly I realized why people say Chicago is a wind city. Compared to New York, Chicago's weather has a sense of insidiousness. It could be sunny at 8a.m and suddenly become extremely freezing and windy at 11:00a.m. However, Chicago is way more organized than New York city.
Chicago River Architecture Tour
This is a pretty famous tourist MUST DO
Taking the small cruise to get a glimpse about Chicago!
(The knowledgeable staff of Wendella really knows about Everything. He basically told us like every detail of history of each building but he spoke so freaking fast like a machine. )
Well this is the famous CORN building, which is probably the most pricey apartment in the Chicago. With cylinder structure, the residence can put some polygon furniture fitting in their living space, which also means that they cannot buy ordinary rectangular furniture.
Wildberry pancake
The lunch we chose Wildberry pancake and cafe, which is really high rated cheap restaurant located in the LOOP. Tourist sites say that the most famous thing about Chicago is deep dish pizza, so they even make a ranking about the top three Chicago deep dish pizza
1.Malnati's
2.Giordano
3.Uno
I ate it, the so called most famous food in Chicago and I can only express one word
---Paralysis
I really cannot tell the difference because I don't even like pizza at all lol.But if you love pizza, then you're gonna love Chicago so much
More about Chicago Architecture
Different styles of architecture depict the so called Chicago style
Chicago Cultural Center
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_culturalcenter.html This is not a huge attraction, but there are tons of local and contemporary art work in this cultural center.It's totally free and they have some weekend workshop.If you're in Chicago couple days, then it would be a really great opportunity to get involved with Chicago. You can see variety texture of art work. Art can be anything. The spirit of art and liberal disseminates in everywhere of Chicago.
(THIS PHOTO is the work of Google Street View service)
Some photos from the exhibition
Exhibition about clothes art
MICHIGAN AVENUE
THE CORE OF CHICAGO THIS AD IS FREAKING AMAZING
A art work of Millennium park
Millennium park located just beside the Michigan avenue surrounded by lots of contemporary art.It's really huge probably gonna take couple hours to walk around.
This is a MUST SEE---
The Field Museum of Natural History
I
cannot express how much I love about this museum. With under$40 bucks
for student ticket, you can see general exhibition and also special
topic exhibition. They own lots of skeleton of Tyrannosaurus and their collection is absolutely different from
American Museum of Natural History.There are multiple exhibition
including cultural art presentation in this museum.Combined with science
of art, The field museum definitely can catch your eye. If you are a
museum lover, then you'll feel that one day is doubtless not enough for
this site.
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The art institute of Chicago
This is another must. Actually we visited several museum, but this one
THIS IS BEYOND DESCRIPTION.From Impressionist to middle east art work even comtenporary
Some fraction of our life stays with us forever.It influenced you, cultivated you and LIVED with you.
Purple Pig
It's a really upscale restaurant with excellent service . However, It's kind of a trend that all the classy restaurant in US tend to create a dark environment. You can barely see how the food looks like. Probably it's kind of strategy to enforce customer to focus more on olfactory and gustatory.
After 5 months from the Chicago trip---
It's almost spring. But in east coast it's still snowing as spring isn't coming.Well gotta believe every cloud has a silver lining. Gotta work harder, seek deeper, achieve the goal that I've dreamed about. Spring Break is coming!