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Re: Happiness in Chicago

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Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
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windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
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Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
Museum of science and industry does a Christmas tree thing. Marshall Field's and do the Walnut Room, German Christmas Market, Hawks or bulls game.

It's the Botanic Garden :king:
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windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
Museum of science and industry does a Christmas tree thing. Marshall Field's and do the Walnut Room, German Christmas Market, Hawks or bulls game.

It's the Botanic Garden :king:
yeah, MOSI is also on the list of potential things to do.. we didn't make it during Thanksgiving.. Walnut room was a dud a couple of years ago so they aren't going back.
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Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
Museum of science and industry does a Christmas tree thing. Marshall Field's and do the Walnut Room, German Christmas Market, Hawks or bulls game.

It's the Botanic Garden :king:
yeah, MOSI is also on the list of potential things to do.. we didn't make it during Thanksgiving.. Walnut room was a dud a couple of years ago so they aren't going back.
Dud? How so? You weren't doing it right
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windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
Museum of science and industry does a Christmas tree thing. Marshall Field's and do the Walnut Room, German Christmas Market, Hawks or bulls game.

It's the Botanic Garden :king:
yeah, MOSI is also on the list of potential things to do.. we didn't make it during Thanksgiving.. Walnut room was a dud a couple of years ago so they aren't going back.
Dud? How so? You weren't doing it right
I'll trust the woman who did it as a child when it was Marshall fields and her assessment it was lame now
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Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:
windywave wrote:
Johnny Mac wrote:I need to find Italian beef somewhere near the Viagra Triangle... we are stuck going to Chicago for Xmas, now.

The good: more Malnati's for me
The bad: WTF are we going to do while we are there to entertain a 9 year old who'd rather bury her face in a cell phone/iPad/Kindle HD?

Yank.. I'm going to watch the Saints/Steelers somewhere near the Triangle. Let me know if you're up for a late afternoon game and beer since Windy is probably out of the equation, living in the burbs, now. As you saw in the other thread, McFadden's is dead.
Al's #1 beef on Ontario. Navy Pier (children's museum there) ice skating multiple places close by I suggest the ribbon....other museums... water tower place(American girl)... the parks by water place (the one behind the firehouse is best)...top of cork sucker.... LP zoo
we did the ribbon for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be significantly colder and they don't know shinola about sharpening skates, I nearly died with the first pair I rented since they were sharpened incorrectly... we are going to do zoo lights for sure and maybe the Navy Pier indoor festival.. my daughter hates dolls, BTW.. I won't get any of my family into the cork sucker since the elevator plummeted there right before Thanksgiving. We may take the train out to Glencoe to see the model trains at the botanical garden.
Museum of science and industry does a Christmas tree thing. Marshall Field's and do the Walnut Room, German Christmas Market, Hawks or bulls game.

It's the Botanic Garden :king:
yeah, MOSI is also on the list of potential things to do.. we didn't make it during Thanksgiving.. Walnut room was a dud a couple of years ago so they aren't going back.
Dud? How so? You weren't doing it right
I'll trust the woman who did it as a child when it was Marshall fields and her assessment it was lame now
Well I've gone every year that I've been alive and it hasn't changed. Your wife just needed more North Pole Fairy dust sprinkled on her head
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They opened an Al's in Athens, GA. It lasted like 6 days because no one understood what was going on.
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FW wrote:They opened an Al's in Athens, GA. It lasted like 6 days because no one understood what was going on.
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windywave wrote:
FW wrote:They opened an Al's in Athens, GA. It lasted like 6 days because no one understood what was going on.
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FW wrote:
windywave wrote:
FW wrote:They opened an Al's in Athens, GA. It lasted like 6 days because no one understood what was going on.
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when I have friends coming in from out of town, i sent them to Al's. they like it

but none of them have any idea what an Italian Beef is prior to going.
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In probably a half dozen visits to Chicago in my life, I had never had it or heard of it. Then a coworker who was born and raised in Chicago made it for our company's annual gluttonous "pig out day" (this coming Friday... Everyone brings food and we graze all day...).

Since then, I have always made a point to get Italian beef when in Chicago (along with pizza and a hot dog).
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PeteRasche wrote:In probably a half dozen visits to Chicago in my life, I had never had it or heard of it. Then a coworker who was born and raised in Chicago made it for our company's annual gluttonous "pig out day" (this coming Friday... Everyone brings food and we graze all day...).

Since then, I have always made a point to get Italian beef when in Chicago (along with pizza and a hot dog).
Just imagine how much you will like getting a good one then :king:
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windywave wrote:
PeteRasche wrote:In probably a half dozen visits to Chicago in my life, I had never had it or heard of it. Then a coworker who was born and raised in Chicago made it for our company's annual gluttonous "pig out day" (this coming Friday... Everyone brings food and we graze all day...).

Since then, I have always made a point to get Italian beef when in Chicago (along with pizza and a hot dog).
Just imagine how much you will like getting a good one then :king:
They will all be judged against my coworkers'. :wink:
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he has to dip the bread and then put hot AND sweet peppers on it.

I don't eat french fries too often, but Al's has very good ones. i make exception when i go there.
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