The Chicago, Illinois Experience 🇺🇸 | Solo Travel Vlog 

why am I watching this… I live here 😂

Chicago is called the second city not because it’s second but because after the Chicago fire it was built bigger and better

My home town. Thanks for this. Have watched a lot of these Chicago tours but really enjoyed yours. I hope you took the Architectural Boat tour.

Chi town is one of my favorites

Wow Chicago is beautiful, we never cross the Atlantic yet, maybe that's our next adventure. Thank you for sharing this great video.

A few notes. 1. The loop is a collection of trains, not just the brown line. The brown, orange, pink and green line all circle around the loop. The blue and red are underground in that section and go under it. 2. The magnificent mile is definitely Chicago’s 5th avenue, but it’s not where the high end shopping is. The high end shopping actually on oak st in the Gold Coast north of the magnificent mile. 3. Locals don’t call cloud gate anything because they don’t go to it. I lived a 5 minute walk to the Maggie Daley for a year and I never went there. Tourists named it the bean. 4. Deep Dish while definitely a Chicago classic, is much harder to find outside the touristy area. Not impossible but it’s not as quintessential as it seems. Italian beefs and Chicago dogs are much more prevalent. 5. I would have mentioned the lack of trash around the city. Biggest differentiator from NY and would have fit the theme. 6. The food scene goes much farther than the famous food. There is great polish and Mexican food as well as hundreds of high end restaurants in mostly River North and the West Loop. Overall though, the imagery was nice.

Yes the most beautiful city in the world. I live there for 25 years.

Chicago is def one of my faves in the US.

Excellent ❤!!!

Yes…I saw :)

The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with the weather/atmosphere, the L is above ground, and busier is the subways underground downtown (it runs at grade level too), is also extensive rail system outside of the L, Deep dish is more a tourist thing, natives know it’s tavern style, eaten far more often with way more local pizza places, very thin cut in squares. The farther away from the lake, the more unique and diverse the neighborhoods get. Chicago hot dogs are on poppy seed (steamed). Silly to say “oddly diverse food”, it has people from all over the world and deep history of immigrants (including now), is hard to find other US city with as good of food scene. Also odd to say it didn’t/doesn’t have immigration of coastal cities, people moved there from all over the globe and still do. You won’t experience that in downtown or Lincoln. park, but so much to explore beyond.

Any recommended hotel for a solo traveler? I've seen Freehand solo rooms but is there any other recomendations for a midweek stay?