Traveling to Chicago 9/15-9/19 - Or should we?

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This is an old thread but it includes some notes from a trip I took in 2019.

Remember 2019 ? Good times.

Chicago Trip Report – Dusek’s, The Publican, Bohemian House, Xoco, Beef and Brandy

What a terrific city you Chicagoans have! We lucked out on weather last weekend so that helped. We were so blown away by how attractive the downtown and lakeshore area were and the municipal tulip budget alone must be astounding. Also we ate very well indeed. Dusek’s. Fun, funky, very loud. Very good food (beef fat frites with harissa ketchup, smoked trout rillettes, flat iron steak with veal roulade, salsa verde, and trumpet mushrooms and choucroute with duck leg confit, duck sausage, sea…

I loved the architect tour and don’t remember it feeling crowed outside. Couldn’t figure out why so many people were crammed *inside. * I guess it was cold.