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Chicago is a neighborhood city. Act like it.
Downtown is the introduction. The rest of the story starts farther out.
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Neighborhoods
Chicago is a neighborhood city. Act like it.
Three very different ways to spend a day without treating Chicago like one long downtown attraction.
Slow day
Build a Chicago lake day that ends somewhere warm.
Coffee, a long stretch by the water and a neighborhood table waiting when the weather changes its mind.
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