sterlingice
03-14-2008, 07:23 AM
My wife and I are in Chicago as I'm doing training in Downer's Grove. And we were trying to come up with stuff to do "out on the town", so to speak- nice dinner and something, but not entirely sure what or where. And before throwing out ideas, there are a few limitations which is probably gong to make this all but impossible to come up with something.
We were trying to keep it out towards the west where we are at since we have to drive to Rockford at some point tonight so we definitely don't want to be out past 10. We can start as soon as 4 or 5 and, in fact, will be trying to figure out what to do as we will have had to check out from the hotel this morning. But that only leaves us with 5 hours absolute maximum so going too much "in" to Chicago is out since it will be rush hour and we'd spend at least 2 or 3 of the 5 hours driving so there would be no time to do anything else except eat and then turn around and leave.
As for the something fun to do tonight, when I say fun at night for us, it means something that doesn't involve the words "bar" or "club". We don't exactly have time to sit at a comedy club and sitting at a smokey bar with music only to have to jump on the road for a good hour and a half or two hours, smelling like smoke and half deaf, just doesn't sound at all like fun. It could be something simple like a nice park to walk around at night (tho that would be chilly) or something tourist-y that's open after 8pm, I don't know.
I know I've thrown out a bunch of parameters that probably make this all but impossible but are there any suggestions for either food or something to do or both?
SI
We were trying to keep it out towards the west where we are at since we have to drive to Rockford at some point tonight so we definitely don't want to be out past 10. We can start as soon as 4 or 5 and, in fact, will be trying to figure out what to do as we will have had to check out from the hotel this morning. But that only leaves us with 5 hours absolute maximum so going too much "in" to Chicago is out since it will be rush hour and we'd spend at least 2 or 3 of the 5 hours driving so there would be no time to do anything else except eat and then turn around and leave.
As for the something fun to do tonight, when I say fun at night for us, it means something that doesn't involve the words "bar" or "club". We don't exactly have time to sit at a comedy club and sitting at a smokey bar with music only to have to jump on the road for a good hour and a half or two hours, smelling like smoke and half deaf, just doesn't sound at all like fun. It could be something simple like a nice park to walk around at night (tho that would be chilly) or something tourist-y that's open after 8pm, I don't know.
I know I've thrown out a bunch of parameters that probably make this all but impossible but are there any suggestions for either food or something to do or both?
SI