Travel with Me: Weekend Edition / Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

I’m back with a Travel with Me: Weekend Edition post, a shortened version of my Travel With Me posts. These posts are for trips that are just a day or a weekend – I share what we did, what we ate, and where we stayed with short descriptions. I hope that these posts can help you plan a short trip yourself or at least inspire you to visit a new place!

For this post, I’m sharing our weekend trip to Chicago the weekend of November 7-9 this year. I was in the suburbs of Chicago for a work training the week before, so Daniel flew in for a weekend in the city afterward. It was a whirlwind of a weekend but so much fun!

When looking for a hotel for this trip, it was important to us that we stay somewhere downtown with easy access to many of the places we wanted to visit. I found a great deal on this hotel at Hotels.com. The hotel is literally right off of the Magnificent Mile (a famous street for shopping and dining). The woman who checked us in was not that friendly, but she was efficient, so we made it up to the room quickly. I was happy to see that we were placed on a higher floor (32!) with a fantastic view of the city. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).