Quick review now of my 2 days in Chicago now. I just landed in Dallas and have a bit of time before going out for dinner and then watch Dirk Nowitzki kick some Grizzly ass tonight.
For all cities I visited I want to write a little review and have the same categories for each one of them...so here we go:
Food and drinks:
Chicago is pretty much famous for one thing: Deep Dish Pizzas. As I love eating Pizza I obviously had to have one. So yesterday my fellow student Brett and myself went on a probably 3 hour long search for the best deep dish pizza and ended up at a place called Oro`s Pizza.
I had a Pesto/Cheese/Veggy Pizza which was totally awesome. The pizza was small in size but because it is SOOOO THICK it feeds you really really really well. In the end I wasnt able to finish it so as you do in the states I took the rest of the pizza home with me in a box. I didnt even eat it the next day as I gave it to a homeless person in front of my Hotel as I didnt really want to eat pizza early in the morning...
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| Deep Dish Pizza with Brett |
Besides that I didnt really try many Chicago typical things besides 2 glasses of beer ( of which I dont even know if it was from Ilinois). The beer was surprisingly great as well. So since Chicago was my first stop I had to catch up on typically American things as well such as 2 liters of Mountain Dew, Dunkin Donuts and loads of Starbucks hot beverages.
Highlight of sweet things I tried was a Cheesecake Brownie... HOLY COW was that good...
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| Cheesecake brownie |
Food rating Chicago: 8/10
People:
The immigration officers at O`Hare airport were much friendlier than the ones I got to know on my trips to the US before so I had a really good start in Chicago. While walking through the city on the first night and trying to understand the bus system it was seriously 3 times in a row enough to look at the map on the side of the road so that someone offered me help...
So that leaves 2 possible explanations:
- I look like a little 5 year old helpless girl when not knowing where I am
- People in Chicago are quite friendly
I will go with the second explanation :).
Adding the very good waitress at the Pizza place and the staff at United Center on top the people of Chicago blew me away.
People rating: 10/10
Sports:
Chicago is a sports city. They have at least one professional team in baseball, hockey, basketball and football and the whole city is pretty much a sports city with basketball and baseball dominating the scene.
Thursday night I went to a Chicago Bulls home game, and I couldnt be happier about everyhting that I saw and did:
- obviously I gave a kiss to the Michael Jordan statue
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| Michael Jordan monument |
- I saw the GHOSTBUSTERS !!! (doing stupid things)
....and finally my favorit moment of these holidays so far:
Derrick Rose is a player of the Chicago Bulls. He is by far their best player...he was injured for more than 1 full year now with a torn ACL and did not play in front of his home crowd. He is from Chicago, before the injury he was voted the best player of the league and the whole city of Chicago was waiting for him to come back this year. He came back for the first time for the game I was at and plays a really shitty game because he was still not in 100% best shape...
...until the last 5 seconds of the game, with Chicago being down by 1 point he got the ball...and FREAKING MADE AN IMPOSSIBLE SHOT....everyone around me just went nuts....AMAZING!!!
With a big smile on my face I went to bed that night...what a start to that trip.
Next day I visited the football stadium and the quite famous baseball stadium "Wrigley Park" and that was it basically already for the sports secene in Chicago...
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| Soldier Field - The football stadium |
Sports rating: 9/10
Summary: Chicago was much better than expected. I was only there for 2 days but definately need to come back! The Derrick Rose moment at the Bulls game I will never forget...that was just breathtaking. Together with the relaxed people Chicago is simply a very nice city to visit!
Following are a couple of more pictures from the windy city:
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| The Mall cop |
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| On top of Willis Tower |
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| something against the jet lag |
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