First stop is for some Chicago deep dish pizza. Giordanos served up a traditional deep dish pizza with lots of cheese, sauce and Chicago sausage. At Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. we had the most amazing antipasto plate complete with meatballs, and sausage balls. If that wasn’t enough we also had one of their Pizza Pot Pies! This is a pizza made upside down and then they flip it at your table! The sausage here is the best.
Between eating amazing pizza we toured the city. We traveled to the John Hopkins Tower for cocktails in their Signature Lounge above the city at 96 floors up you have a 360 view of the Chicago skyline. The cocktails were good but then their was the visit to the ladies room!
Floor to ceiling view of Chicago!
If I would have known how good this view was we would have hit the ladies room first! Chicago has so many wonderful buildings and sites that we took the double decker tour bus ride and really got a great view of Chicago.
Tallest Bldg in Chicago, Sears Tower. I thought the top of Rainforest Cafe was an interesting focal point for my photo!
Chicago River
City scape as view through Cloud Gate, the silver peanut sculpture in the center of Millennium Park
Chicago at Sunset
Oak Park and Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture has been on my must see list for many years now so this trip was perfect for the short drive out to Oak Park. We spent a couple of hours just wandering through this quaint village and enjoyed seeing some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work in the area. His family home is here as well as many homes he designed or remodeled in the early 1900’s. Many homes here were designed by other architects although you can see the Wright influence in many.
My favorite! Arthur Heurtley House,
Just down the street from the Wright family home,
Amazing, this home was built in 1902! The style is definitely timeless.
Moore House
Thomas DeCaro House
Many different styles with features that are truely Frank Lloyd Wright. This is a beautiful neighborhood and only 20 minutes from downtown Chicago. Suburban lifestyle only a train ride away from all the excitement.
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