Brit Reacts to Exploring Chicago (This City Has Everything!)
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My favorite city in the Country. Those who know, know. Lots of haters out there due to propaganda, but Chicago is spectacular.
Yes it is.
Agreed. It is like an upscale new york. Has everything new york has to offer, but cleaner and nice people. It does have some problems that I would not say it is propaganda. Altough It's definitely exaggerated . But it really needs to start taking care of them. Chicago is not only my favorite city in America, but the world. And I think that is saying a lot since I worked as a travel guide for 15 years and have visited pretty much everywhere.
Absolutely agree.
Propaganda? You’ve elected the biggest morons as mayors including the current moron. Chicago is also easily the most corrupt big city in the country. When you send your kids to college out of state and SAVE money as my cousin who lives in Kenilworth did, your city and state stinks 😂
@@robertofernandez7773Exactly
New York scale and urban density, but with Midwestern kindness and hospitality
Mix in a rich culture in music and theatre and food and you’ve got a world-class city
Chicago is a clean, pretty, quieter version of NYC with better food and a lower cost of living.
But more crime. it's such a wild contrast. But I agree, I prefer Chicago to New York.
@@danielfrancis3736 The Crime is focused outside of the areas that a tourist would visit, nobody is going to the south side or west side.
@@shawnanderson6313there are a few safe neighborhoods on the south side too.
@@godzillamaster34 Agreed, that is why nobody is going there except for maybe a White Sox game or to visit the Museum of Science & Industry. The Tourist and suburban folks stay out of the South side unless they going to UC, which is safe.
@@danielfrancis3736 Not even true. Chicago doesn't even have that much crime compared to places like NYC, St. Louis, etc
Chicago is considered to be the most American City of Cities.
Chicago was named the second most beautiful city in the world in 2021, beating out Paris and behind only Prague, according to 27,000 global readers of the website Time Out.
The Chicago Starbucks that was briefly mentioned is the biggest in the world.
The skyscraper was invented in Chicago!
I moved to England many years back for a year and when I set to return home to finish my senior year of uni my British boyfriend came with me. He was a bit unhappy that everything was so close together and that everything was straight and flat.
Then we went downtown and he saw Lake Michigan. He was like, "Wtf ocean is that?" I said, "It's Lake Michigan." He said, "But you can't see to the other side. Surely that's an ocean. lol I said no, it's a lake, and it's not even the biggest Great Lake.
May through October, Chicago is the best city in the country. I love winter, so I would include the other months as well. Plus, you get football, basketball and hockey during that time to keep you busy.
Yes! October baby!!
Everyone sleeps on Chicago. There is so much to offer in the City. I don't care what anyone says, the Chicago skyline is the BEST in the US.
Winter is museum time! And, it’s not always bitterly cold-you can take advantage of those gorgeous crisp sunny days when the temperature gets above 30 and enjoy a walk along the lakefront.
Yes Chicago is great to visit during Christmas. 🎄
Too bad the Bears, Cubs, White Sox, and Bulls all stink lol. Go 90 minutes north to watch some real professionals play ball.
@@stich21 I’m good thanks. I stay loyal to my Bears and Cubbies no matter what.
Chicago is the most underrated city in the country. It is the culinary capital of the US. The architecture is amazing. It has beautiful parks and beaches. It has world renowned museums and a planetarium. It has great comedy and music scenes. House music was born in Chicago. Many huge comedians are from Chicago including Robin Williams, Chris Farley, Bill Murray, Jane Lynch, John Mulaney, John C. Riley, etc. And Chicago is a big sports town. Win or lose, Chicago sports fans are some of the most passionate and loyal fans in the country. It’s cleaner than New York and the people are friendlier. Does Chicago have some neighborhoods that are not so great? Of course. Every major city does. Does the city have problems they need to work on? Hell yeah. But the news makes Chicago seem like a much worse city than it is.
Chicago is on lake Michigan. The ocean is hundreds of miles from Chicago. One of the most beautiful city in 🇺🇸
God blessing everyone.
@@alapaticornell4391 is that because he said coast? Chicago definitely is on a coast. By definition a coast is where land meets the water.
@@joshf5341 Yes but it's called Lake SHORE not Lake COAST
@@harryballsak1123 Correct. Nobody would call it the coast.
@@harryballsak1123 I have heard both
@@thewolfdoctor761 that’s actually incorrect. I have heard both terms used.
Chicago is my favorite city to visit. It's perfect in September.
Thank you for featuring this video on Chicago. I’m born and raised in Chicago, and very proud. Chicago has everything anybody would want. The people that run Chicago down were probably never here.
My family has lived there almost 100 years now. It deserves the reputation. Anyone that doesn’t live up to the ideals they espouse deserves to be called out and as a collective of people Chicago fails. It is based on the ideas of liberalism and is ironically known for corruption.
I'm riding my bicycle up route 66 in '25, finishing in Chicago is going to be awesome. Planning on staying a week or so and enjoy it. Do some fun tourist stuff.
Marina Towers is a condo/apartment complex, with hotels, restaurants, and a parking garage on the lower levels. 🙂
Hi Lav, I like your videos! I was born and raised in Chicago and while this is a good video that you're reviewing, there's so much more. Marina City are the two "corn cob" towers that have parking about 1/3 up each tower. The "castle" that you mentioned is the "Water Tower", one of the few buildings that survived the "Great Chicago Fire of 1871".
Hi buddy! I'm from Chicago. It's the cleanest city in the U.S. and gets voted best big city in the U.S. year after year! Great video bro!
Just 30 miles south of Chicago city center is the INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK. Chicago shares its southern border with Indiana. Indiana Dunes National Park is among the country's five “lesser known national parks to add to your bucket list,” according to National Geographic. With 2.75 million visitors in 2023, the park ranks 36th in attendance among 393 national parks, monuments and historic sites. Indiana Dunes is home to one of the most biologically diverse habitats in the nation. Hiking, RVing, swimming beaches with cold, crisp, clean, clear freshwater is a great way to explore this fascinating landscape. Traverse over 50 miles of trails that lead you through shorelines, dunes, wetlands, prairies, river systems, oak savannahs, cultural sites and more. LAKE MICHIGAN IS AN ENORMOUS INLAND SEA HOSTING INTERNATIONAL CARGO SHIP FREIGHTERS WITH PORTS IN CHICAGO AND INDIANA bordering both Chicago, Indiana, Wisconsin, and the State of Michigan. The ginormous summer beach playground has excellent views of the Chicago skyline. I am always surprised visitors to Chicago often overlook this nearby National Park.
Chicago does not have a south border with Indiana. There is a small section were Chicago borders Hammond, Indiana to the east but all of Chicago's southern border is in Illinois.
McDonald's is headquartered in Chicago and so is also their test kitchen
Oakbbrook is chicago headquarters = 25 miles west of city in suburb
@@Steve-gx9ot Not in a long time.
The bridges over the river were all drawbridges - it’s really beautiful when they all open up to allow sailboats to pass. Chicago is second only to Amsterdam for the most moveable bridges in the world (37)
My daughter and I just took a train trip from Pittsburgh to Chicago for three day. Stay and absolutely loved it. We need to go back again and for her as a 22-year-old wanting to go back because she really enjoyed it. Put a smile on my face. I would highly recommend seeing the..
Go Steelers. Visited from the Philly burbs 5 years ago with the family and loved it
I lived in Chicago in the seventies for several years. Yes, Chicago is the "Windy City" and it can get very cold during the winter; but it's a beautiful city and the people there are welcoming and friendly. When I lived there it was known as the "Second City." Since then, LA has taken the second most populated spot making it the third city in population with a Texas city rapidly approaching that spot. Whatever ranking it has in population, Chicago is a super city to me! I especially love it around St. Patrick's Day when the Chicago River is dyed green.
Two hour flight from Philly I love taking day trips to Chicago.. amazing architecture.. amazing food
Great videos lately Mr. Luka, really enjoy your channel
Chicago is underrated. People talk about New York and LA but Chicago is up there especially when you factor in cost of living.
From just north of Chicago, as Kanye said, summertime Chicago is literally like no place else. Most folks I've met from the UK love the city.
what do you get a man that has everything ?? . penicillin..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣You caught me off guard. I was not ready. 😂
That Starbucks is the largest Starbucks in the world.
This was really good and it barely scratched the surface of a visit to Chicago. No one can ever get bored in this city. It has something for everyone (museums, sports, shopping, beaches, parks, theatre, concerts, architecture, world class food, ethnic neighborhoods, street festivals, nightlife, etc.). Definitely one of the best and most beautiful cities in the USA (just skip winter). Crime is only really a problem on the far West Side, and parts of the South Side--no one would have a reason to go to those places anyway. If it looks ghetto, skip it.
I grew up in Chicago and nearly everything in the video was just a short walk from my house. Spent Summers on the beach, at the zoo, the museums, biking along the lakeshore, listening to live music coming out of the blues bars ... I wasn't of drinking age but sure appreciated the free music! I knew a lot of "hidden gems," places you wouldn't believe were in the middle of the city. Walk along some of the side streets at night where nearly every home had stained or beveled glass windows, the lights from inside would sparkle like rainbows as you walked by ... I was lucky to grow up where I did.
Yes, Chicago is home to McDonald's. The world headquarters is in Chicago, with two unique McDoanald's restaurants in town. Both sell McDonald's items from around the world. One is a dedicated McDonald's restaurant separate from the global building that is tied for the largest McDonald's restaurant at 19,000 sq, ft. (The Orlando location is also 19,000 sq, ft.) However, the McDonald's restaurant, built into the global headquarters building, also features an international menu. Hamburger University, inside the corporate campus, is where future franchising management is taught how to run a McDonald's restaurant and where McDonald's has its test kitchens for testing future menu items that will be sold globally. The corporate office building of McDonald's is built on the former site of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios, where her talk show was filmed. The world headquarters of McDonald's in Chicago spans an area of 480,000 sq, ft. So, in a way, the world's largest McDonald's is on the global campus since it has a full-functioning restaurant open to the public built into it. It's the largest McDonalds building/restaurant on the planet.
The Starbucks shown in the video here in Chicago is also the world's largest Starbucks. Starbucks decided to build its largest and final Starbucks Reserve and Roastery location in Chicago since Chicago was home to the first ever Starbucks built outside of their hometown of Seattle, where they are headquartered. Chicago marked Starbuck's first-ever expansion in the company's history. Of the six "Reserve and Roastery" locations built worldwide, Chicago has the largest one. It spans a grand total of 5 floors and 43,000 sq, ft. in total floor space.
I love Chicago! My brother lives near Chicago and is often in the city so he was a great guide. We packed a lot in and it has become my absolute favorite big city. I lived in Houston and have been to LA and NYC but Chicago takes the number one spot for me.
I live in Chicago. It is a wonderful city. The museums, food, parks (by law the lakefront must be public land) so lots of fresh air and recreation. It does get colder in winter usually in the 20s f, lately there has been less snow in the winter so that’s disappointing. Not to brag but where I live on the north side I can walk out my door and in 20 seconds have a swim in Lake Michigan. Blessed to live here, great city.
Lived in the Chicago area and enjoyed every minute of my time there!
This tour guide seemed to be mainly interested in eating and snacking, but seemed to be doing a good job of the food & beverage. You should visit, and not miss out on the museums, and some of the cultural events. A summer concert in the Pritzger Pavilion, and visits to the Art Institute, the Field Museum (think dinosaur skeletons), and the Aquarium would be good additions. The architectural boat tours, into the river and out onto the lake is something every visitor should experience. If you plan to make a trip, give me a heads up, and I can make time to do a little guide duty. I'm a semi retired architect who has lived here since college. Also winters aren't as bad, with global warming doing its thing.
This video has much better views of Chicago th-cam.com/video/qGkenJtoyEM/w-d-xo.html
The coolest thing about the city is that it feels like a big town, it doesn’t have the city feel of New York or the suburban feel of Los Angeles. I can’t think of another place that feels like a bunch of small towns morphed into one. The tourist food is disgusting so anyone who goes should ask a multi-generational Chicagoan what to eat. The river/lake cruises are a must. The tourist traps like Navy Pier are boring waste of money. Living in the city is best: Lakeview, Streeterville, Little Italy, Greektown, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park West Loop, South Loop, Wrigley, Kenwood, Bronzeville, Beverly. Most of the suburbs are sub par compared to suburbs around the country. It is poorly ran if you have an appetite for disfunction.
The Art Institute of Chicago is an amazing place where you can spend days without getting bored!
I've never been to New York City, but Chicago is my favorite big city. Whenever you want to fly into Chicago, Thurston, I'll meet you there. Only about a 3.5 hour drive for me. All of those bridges are on the Chicago River, as it goes through downtown Chicago, on its way to Lake Michigan.
Love at 15:44 the photo of the statue of Harry Carey and at 16:06 of the sign saying "Save Ferris" (if you know, you know, lol) 😎💜
I sorry but London skyscrapers are amongst the most ugly in the world.. however the older historical building are awesome
looks good, I have technically been to Chicago, because I went to boot camp (Navy basic training) in Great Lakes, Illinois. But I was not one of the lucky ones who was given a few hours in Chicago before leaving for Basic Enlisted Submarine School. I was in the group that got bussed directly to ORD airport and put on a plane to Groton, Connecticut, USA! Someday I have to go and check out Chicago. 🙂
btw at Groton is the Thames River, and across from that is New London! It's where the puddle pirates (the United States Coast Guard) have their academy where they train officers. It's weird because the name of the submarine base at Groton is technically "New London Naval Submarine Base" but I always forget because nobody actually calls it that. Everybody calls it "Sub Base Groton" or simply "Groton". 🙂
Chicago is fantastic and is the heart of America. I've lived here 64 years. The museums are first world class.
♥ cupcakes! If I was in Chicago there are a few things I'd have to do: Cubs game & deep dish pizza
Wrigley Field was built in 1914 so its 110 years old.
Wrigley Field was built in 1914, the Cubs moved in there in 1916. Not quibbling about it, but just want to set the record straight. The guy who built it was a gambler and a member of the KKK.
@@MetroCSN At one point in the 1920s 1/4 of the American population was member of the KKK. If everything is a purity test, no one passes
Chicago is a gem. I much prefer it to NYC.
No mention of car jacking capital of the world? You didn’t see the REAL Chicago.
Lake Michigan is one of the Great Lakes. The State of Michigan is surrounded by the Great Lakes: these are freshwater lakes and enormous.
THE GREAT LAKES ARE INLAND SEAS!!!!
@@sierrajohnson7300 Yes indeed. That is why there are so many gale warnings that pop up on my phone.
Chicago is second to none! I live 30min from downtown. It's only called the "second city" because the first version burned down in the historic Chicago fire. Come take a visit.
The best of LA & NY with a touch of old SF. 😊
7:33 It’s an apt comparison, considering that Manchester is essentially the UK’s Chicago
Sister city
19:22 This enormously ugly building -- the Merchandise Mart -- has a fascinating history. It was a warehouse, but also a mall, from which wholesale buyers from all over the country descended to purchase practically every type of merchandise available. You could consider it the Amazon of the 1940s, 50s, 60s. The Merchandise Mart was the world's largest building when it opened in 1930. It was so big, it was considered a "city within a city" and had its own zip code.
And it's own zip code
As a former Chicago tourist guide, come visit, the city has thousands of restaurants, Chinatown, Little Italy, great Mexican food, great Polish food, a plethora of international cuisine. It’s where the brownie, Hostess Twinkie, malted milkshake, the zipper, roller skates and more were invented, as well as the former candy capital of America (Lemonheads, Snickers Bar, Fannie May Chocolates, etc were birthed here) It’s been called the most American of big cities.
Hard to diet in Chicago......but....Life is short 😊
Chicago is amazing throughout the year, you just need to acclimatize as the weather chills in October. The more you go outside when it’s chilly, the easier it is to tolerate the cold, snowy windy winter. Put on a parka and enjoy it!
I live right by Wrigley, around from where they stayed... So that's cool and all, but for them to not even visit or mention Museum Campus is shocking to me. There's so much more than they showed, and that's the wonderful thing about our city.
Chicago in the summer is amazing!!! It’s so much fun, and it’s absolutely beautiful!!!
Chicago is amazing, especially in the summer. Winter is cold but not as much as people think. Beautiful place - I've lived in both NYC and Chicago. Both amazing but Chicago is so much more affordable and has a million things to see and do.
BTW there's over 20 beaches in the city of Chicago and some more in the surrounding suburbs
Chicago is beautiful and has something to do for everyone. I never get tired of exploring.
Of course, it's at its most beautiful from April- October, but fall and winter can be beautiful too.
There's a popular saying here, "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes. It will change." It might not always change right away, but bad weather doesn't last long, and the beautiful days far outweigh the bad.
Chicago is the birthplace of skyscrapers and has the 2nd most Skyscrapers(behind NYC)
There’s 2 Starbucks reserve in NYC
Thank you for your reaction video Lav. That video was nice. There is so much more bro to my beautiful city. I'm a City worker here in Chicago, a good 4 days and nights and you can get to see a ton of Chicago. The traffic is a pain, but its all about timing and side streets when dealing with the traffic. Chicago is dope ! Hope you get a chance to check it out bro! For you all that read the comments, if you ever in the chi, and need help finding anything here let me know. I have no problem helping!
Chicagoan here. I live in East Lakeview down the street from several of the stops shown. Summers in Chicago are incredible. The “castle” you remarked on at the beginning is an old water tower and one of the few buildings to survive the Chicago Fire. The moniker “Second City” comes from the fact the city rebuilt after the fire. Samoa flavor is based on a Girl Scout Cookie and is a shortbread base with coconut, caramel and chocolate. Wrigley field was fully renovated a few years ago and is famous for its old ivy covered walls. McDonald’s is headquartered in Chicago. The best part of the bean is standard underneath the center of it and looking up. The curves create a strange sensation of depth. The nearby park is a gorgeous place to pass some time. The footage of Wrigley was taken during the winter. They set up a Christmas Market outside and rides and bars inside. The lower floors on Marina City is parking. It’s condominiums above. Chicagos motto is “Urbs in Horto” or City in a Garden. It was designed such that most everyone is within walking distance of a park.
I went to Minneapolis every summer to see family as I was growing up. They have 3 lakes u can walk/jog/bike around where u have a perfect view of the city skyline. I always thought it was so trippy being in nature while also being in the city, lol. I know green spaces within major cities have become more and more popular but that was my first exposure to it back in the 80s/90s 😊
I lived in Chicago for 25 years. Endless entertainment. The food is endless in quality and variety due to so many different cultures. It's impossible to ever see, eat and do everything. Music, sports, theatre, museums.. etc etc. Fantastic. BUT, there are some bad parts too. Be street smart. :-)
I visited earlier this year, it is a very clean and beautiful city. The river and lake views are spectacular, the people are friendly. I live in Los Angeles, and our Downtown is filthy compared to this elegant and fascinating windy city. I will be visiting again soon.
One of my father’s ironworking buddies is from the south. The first time he saw Lake Michigan, his statement was, “I didn’t know y’all had an ocean”. 😂
McDonald's Opens New Global Headquarters in Chicago's West Loop. McDonald's Corp. today opened its new corporate headquarters in Chicago's vibrant West Loop neighborhood by unveiling the state-of-the-art building which had been covered in a 70-foot tall and 470-foot wide wrap dotted with Big Macs for the grand opening.
FYI, LA County has 20 beaches. Chicago has 24. Think about that.
You can come visit here. Our summers are great. May 1 thru September 30.
Yes, in the core part of downtown Chicago, there's a bridge over the river just about every block, as you'd expect in a major city. It helps that the Chicago River is not an especially large river, so it is relatively easy to bridge (compared to something like the Hudson or the Thames or the Potomac). For comparison, look at some other cities with moderate-sized rivers like the Chicago. The Scioto for example has fourteen bridges within 16-20 blocks of each other (depending on how you count) on the west side of downtown Columbus, which is a much smaller city. Granted, there are two interstate highways involved in that, but still, traffic is crossing the river. The much twistier Cuyahoga River is bridged fourteen times within a mile (as the crow flies) of Lake Erie, and again, Cleveland is nowhere near as large as Chicago. The Milwaukee is bridged 17 times in about that many blocks (give or take a couple, depending on how you count; it's less than a mile and a half). And so on.
London and New York and DC have much larger rivers, so they have fewer, larger bridges each carrying more traffic, because another little bridge every block or so doesn't make as much sense when each of the bridges would have to be six or eight or ten blocks long. But the bridges in Chicago aren't long; with a couple of exceptions (due to diagonals), they're generally less than a block long (so they're spaced more than their length apart from one another), and they're at grade, so they're *much* smaller and cheaper than the superstructure-laden multi-span bridges in New York and London.
From Chicago. But why did he ever call Michigan Ave shopping "Oak Street"? Disgusting 😂
Chicago is the greatest SUMMER city in the world. And the cleanest big city. And definitely the best food hands down!!!
There's so much more to Chicago, the different cultured neighborhoods not in downtown are where to go when you come here. I'll make you a list of the places that we go to, And don't listen to people who live in the suburbs, they don't know anything lol
He didn't even go to the museum campus. It's a peninsula with The Field Museum, The Shedd Aquarium, The Adler Planetarium and Soldier Field. It's a horrible place to build an outdoor stadium for a sport that happens during the winter, but it looks so cool.
Best food, best architecture, stunning beaches and lakefront, is a reason Condé Nast travel has voted Chicago the top US city to visit seven years in a row.. so much more to see than this video and areas beyond Wrigleyville and downtown.
I grew up here and since I moved it's made me appreciate Chicago so much more. It's the best summertime city in the country, there's so much to do. The architecture is beautiful and for a large city the downtown area is very clean. It's also massive and all the different neighborhood have their own unique style and culture going back to the different ethnic groups that settled there generations ago. It's a must-go if you've never been there.
Only 4 mouths out of year is it really cold, and that an't that cold like it us to be before weather change a round the world, no snow cover for months, maybe a week or 2 before it melts?
Love from Chicago, so much more you havent seen
Chicago is by far the best city in America. Summer time Chicago can’t be beat.
The did a lot of eating at bougie places. He mentions an art museum and Lincoln Park Zoo nothing about the Adler Planetarium, Shed Aquarium, Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry etc. Didn't even go up Willis/Sears Tower which at one point was the tallest building in the world for years
Part of the Decree of City Planners was to keep the lakefront Free & Clear of obstruction(which) made it easy to keep back most
Over Development.
We have several beaches & Greenery that span the length of the city & there only a couple of buildings near or on the lakefront.
In the summer there is so much to see & do and The Food😋 If you eat it? You can find it in Chgo.
The Winters can be a bear but if you're hearty, you'll love fhe holiday season. The city lights up with the Xmas Spirit & Several outdoor activities(like) a German MarketFest called ChrisKindle & numerous light shows. Even the Neighborhood homes go all out w/the decorations. I can honestly Love this City.❤
You're interest in the US is curious to follow. Why don't you take the old advice of Go West Young Man.
If you don't years from now you may regret it.
More British accents on American media.
He said that this is the world headquarters of McDonald's. Right before he showed the menu.
I adore Chicago. ❤
Chicago is the best city in the summer, the beaches, outdoor dining, street festivals. The fall through New Year is cooler (sometimes super cold) but so beautiful, and festive to rival New York.
It was glossed over but the Art Institute is world class. Also, not mentioned, are the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium which are downtown as well.
Chicago’s in my home state in my second favorite city in the country behind Seattle
We do get mild and sunny days in the winter too. Looks like a perfect winter 3 days here had. Our winters are cold though.
6:33 yes, it is a sin to have ketchup on a hot dog, I live in Chicago, I was in school when my teacher told me a story about, that.
He went tour of lunch with a co-worker to a hotdog stand and his co-worker asked for a Chicago style hot dog with ketchup, and the guy behind the counter got so mad he almost jumped out from behind the counter and was ready to throw fists with him, the only thing that stopped him was my teacher, saying it was a joke…. This happened according to my teacher about 25 years ago…..
I know a few people who live in the Marina City Towers, the round ones on the river locally known as the corncobs. They are surprisingly affordable to rent (last year, I saw a one bedroom unit was renting for about $2200/month), considering their location and the views from the huge balconies. Inside, the apartments are pie-shaped, expanding outward in an arc from the hallway entrance. If you work in the north Loop, it’s a short walk to the office.
Tour of Chicago, stays primarily on the north side of city.
I live about 40 miles north of Chicago about three miles from Lake Michigan. Chicago is a beautiful city. It’s not exactly on the coast, it’s on the shore of Lake Michigan. I went to school (post college) in Chicago. Loved it. You need to see it at night, either on a cruise up the Chicago River or from out on the lake. Stunning.
Lav look for driving Chicago by J. Utah. he drives through Chicago streets in real time with no talking. If you want a good look at Chicago, this is the video for you.
Just a little fun fact: The little bird with red on its shoulders at 13:59 and 20:09 is called a "Red-Winged Blackbird"!
My dad is the architect who designed the first McDonald’s Hamburger U (not this new one)! Chicagoans come out of the woodwork when we see someone reacting to our city. It’s fun to see the surprises.
Only ever hear the bad stuff ( looking at you south side) but visited with my wife and son in June 2019 and loved it
The weather in Chicago in the winter is not as bad as people make it out to be. Yes, there are frigid blasts on occasion, and certainly there are times when the "Hawk" comes in off the lake, but it is more a case of people who simply hate Chicago because of it being the more typical American city, etc. rather than the reality of what the weather is like. Besides, in the winter Chicago has HUGE, POPULAR things to do in the winter. It is the third largest city in the US, and it is a city that never sleeps, even in winter.
Chicago is a wonderful city and where I moved to many years ago. I wish he had shown the view from the Planetarium of downtown. It's the prettiest view.
Should watch a Brian636 video he lives in the city and loves it with his heart. He is a stunt rider in the city. Chicago has a huge motorcycle scene influenced by guys like him. He rides around the city and give a little history of the neighborhood he’s visiting.
Will have to take a look at the other videos, because it still has so much to see, like "Taste of Chicago", the Sears Tower ( yes I know the name of it has changed, but it will always be Sears Tower to me), etc. 💜
I like the vlog Matt and Nat did in Chicago, I think it was better than this one. Seemed like the guy in this one went to more upscale places in the city or places I would never go. I live in suburbs outside Chicago so Chicago is easy to get to for me, Walters World has a good video of Chicago as well.
A Samoa is a kind of Girl Scout cookie that has caramel, coconut and chocolate. They are delicious!
The Bean lol. You are supposed to take your photo in the reflection of The Bean, Under The Bean, use your own ideas and have fun.
Not on the coast, it's in the MidWest. The beach is on Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes chain.