Chicago Auto Show
Last weekend, I traveled up to Chicago with my friend, Ryan, to attend the Chicago Auto Show. This is one of the largest auto shows in the country, and we have been wanting to go ever since we came to Dayton four years ago. Finally, we blocked off a weekend and dedicated ourselves to the journey. We traveled up Friday evening to the best city in the US, in our opinion, and checked into our downtown hotel that was giving a great winter special rate. Apparently, not many people want to visit the city in the middle of winter. Although the wind blew swiftly between the towering skyscrapers, the temperature was not terribly low. After a delicious dinner at a Chinese/Thai restaurant down the street and a couple hours at Bar Louie, we hit the sack in preparation for our next day at the show.
We awoke to a blustery day on Saturday but soon found ourselves at an amazingly scrumptious breakfast/brunch joint on Michigan Avenue. I had the most amazing "stuffed" french toast, and we had to carry ourselves several blocks south to McCormick Place, the site of the auto show.
Two huge convention spaces were filled with (mostly) beautiful automobiles. We spent hours taking in the sights of new concept cars, including revived American muscle cars, and sitting in machines that we could only dream of owning. Jeep even had a complete off-road course set up inside the convention center which included logs, rocks, steep inclines and declines, and water that was traversed in one of six Wranglers. We had visited the Atlanta auto show previously, but the Chicago show was in a league of its own. Before we knew it, the time had come to depart the great windy city. But we did not leave until we had a filling Chicago-style deep dish pizza at an authentic pizzeria downtown.
Feb 12, 2008 5:59 PM
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