The Millennium Art Festival is the last weekend in May and the beginning of June for a weekend located at the end of Millennium Park at the cross of Lake Street and Michigan Avenue. It's free and filled with booths of art, paintings, photography, innovative designs of jewelry, candles, wine/alcohol corks, wooden box musical instruments, glass [...]
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Lyfe Kitchen
The Lyfe Kitchen is located at 419 North Clark Street in River North of Chicago. When a small restaurant we had tried to go to didn't pan out a friend and I decided to stop here, partially to get out of the heat and partially because we were too hungry and tired to go much further. [...]
Eataly
Eataly is a two story shopping experience located at 43 E Ohio St. I call it an experience, sometimes a monster, because the first time I went it was super confusing. I'm sure the fact I went after it had only recently opened and was packed to the brim didn't help. It has 23 restaurants, a [...]
After-Words
After-words is an independent bookstore in Chicago located at 23 East Illinois Street. They don't have wifi but they do have a couple PC's located in the basement that people can use for about $2.50 every 15 minutes. They also have different events and signings at their store. A couple of their books on the [...]
Millennium Park/Grant Park
Millennium Park can be found lining the eastern side of Michigan Avenue and along the Lake. It's a beautiful place to walk through, though it in itself is somewhat small, the park tends to bleed into other parks or green spots. Millennium Park eventually also turns into Maggie Daley Park and Grant Park and then [...]
Froyo
Froyo is a frozen yogurt self serve shop located near the River North side of Chicago at 446 North State Street. Most self serve shops go by ounce for price, Froyo is 49¢ per ounce, but it can be really easy to make the cup weigh a ton. Froyo has about 14 different flavors at a [...]
Artopolis
Artopolis is a restaurant and cafe located in Greek Town at 306 South Halsted Street. I ordered their tropical iced tea and my friend ordered a mocha, iced. The mocha was strong and the iced tea was just like a normal iced tea. My friend also ordered a baklava square that she loved. Baklava is [...]
Bite’s Asian Tapas
Bite's Asian Tapas is located in Lakeview near the Belmont red/brown line stop at 3313 North Clark Street. A friend of mine wanted to go so we went at 5pm when their dinner time starts. It wasn't busy and no one was really around, we ended up waiting until someone noticed us and they asked if we [...]
iCream cafe-closed
iCream cafe is located at 1537 North Milwaukee Avenue near the Blue Line Damen stop in Wicker Park. iCream is a fun little shop that you have to have patience with because you're enjoying the science of food. They make ice cream, shakes, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and hot puddings. They have a sign on the [...]
Cozy Corner Diner
The Cozy Corner Diner is located beneath the blue line California stop at 2294 North Milwaukee Avenue. There is another location located at Diversey. The restaurant serves breakfast and lunch. When I went with a friend we sat in the back which was a bit noisy when they were messing with silverware, but otherwise enjoyable. [...]