Waking up to a gorgeous spring day was ultimately the deciding factor for what our plans for the day would be. With that in mind, we clicked through several ticket sites and purchased day-of tickets to the April 8th edition of the Chicago Cubs vs. Texas Rangers. After all, it was too beautiful of a […]
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The cable car that stood in the center of the room was nothing like the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) I had taken earlier in the day. It looked cozy and welcoming with table-facing cushioned seats that mimic more of the Metra-styled trains than today’s CTA. One of the Chicago History Museum’s artifacts in the Chicago:
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A morning treat before a hard day’s work. That was the bribe, my boyfriend and I, gave ourselves as we went to The Donut Experiment in Lombard before a day of packing and moving. For me, a move seems to be a yearly tradition, and getting through one requires an ample amount of sugar! Also,
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The Field Museum, which I had visited earlier that week, was eerily quiet. We continued past the large ornate building and through the Museum Campus in our Subaru. It was 6 pm on a Wednesday, The Shedd and Field Museum had been closed for about an hour now. Yet here we were, my boyfriend and
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It was barely 11 a.m. on a Friday, but we were already exhausted from the day and ready to re-caffeinate. Luckily my sister knew a place. A new to Illinois, a small chain from Texas, Summer Moon. Which happened to have our state’s first and for now only location in Crystal Lake. My sister and
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