National Deep Dish Pizza Day 2024 is on Friday, April 5, 2024: What to do with 1 day to sight see in Chicago?

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Hi Jonathan,

One day:

Let's focus on unique things in Chicago:

1) go to the Art Institute of Chicago, be sure to see Grant Wood's American Gothic and Suerat's Sunday in the Park. Unfortunately the museum is in the midst of building a new wing and renovating existing galleries, but still, the place is a must see.

Some side trips from the Art Institute:

When you're done, walk north a block to Millennium Park, and take a look at the Bean, a highly reflective public sculpture. Really a neat experience, and that's free.

Across the street from the Bean is the Chicago Cultural Center. Enter from the Washington St. entrance and climb the grand staircase up to the third floor, where the largest Tiffany Dome sits atop Preston Bradley Hall. It's one of the nicer interiors in the city.

2) The Field Museum: Sue the Dinosaur, and some nice natural history exhibits. Of course, the British Museum outdoes the Field, but it's still a fine museum. Sue is the most complete T-Rex skeleton in the world.

3) At night: Theater. Chicago's theater scene is as good or better than New York's according to the Wall Street Journal's theater critic. You can browse listings and reviews here:

Discount tickets for some shows are here:

Dinner: One unique restaurant you should consider is celebrity chef Rick Bayless's Topolobampo. This is gourmet Mexican; the best Mexican food in the country, and one of the best restaurants in town. Expect to pay around $50 to $60. Next door is Bayless's more casual restauarant, which is also very good, the Frontera Grill. It's less expensive, still very good, and also has a national reputation; dinner there will cost you around $40. This only works if you're coming after Jan 7, as they're closed for vacation until the 8th.

On the other end of the price spectrum, consider Chicago style deep dish pizza at Gino's East.

Or, ditch the Field and do an architectural tour--after all, the city is known for it's architecture--so you can see the city. This is schedule of Chiccago Architecture Foundation tours for January, they have some sort of tour every day. Their Highlights tour will get you all over the city and into a couple of Wright designed structures all in half a day.

the best sources of activities/restaurant review/listings are these websites:

Timeout and the reader are available in print when you get to town. The Reader is free, Timeout isn't, but is at most newsstands.

Most of the other answerers suggest the tall buildings, the hancock and sears. These are only worth going to if the weather is OK, and although the views are great when the weather cooperates, you'll get more from an architecture tour than you will from the skydecks. So I'd say skip them.

Enjoy the trip!

why does pizza hut and domino's pizza taste better than little cesar's pizza?

Some of the above answers have some truth to them. Here's more. L.C { Little Ceasers } is a huge company that owns & manufactures most of the products they use,{ cheese ect.} They also process { cut } their veggies & meats in a central location to cut costs. They do make their own dough fresh daily, to let proof { rise } and be ready for the next day. The VAST majority of pizzas they sell are pepperoni and the second being plain cheese. Their " Hot N Ready " style means that there are supposed to be pre-made { cooked } pizzas { Pepperoni, Cheese & maby a Deep Dish Pepperoni } in their holding ovens...varying ammounts according to the hour of the day. If they sit over a certain ammount of time.....they are thrown out. { Note the numbers on the side of the box, it tells when it was put into the holding oven }

The pizza sauce is very bland as is the cheese mixture. { NOT just one or 2 cheeses, so the flavor is un-recognizable } Little kids USUALLY don't like too spicy flavors so they try to satisfy the masses, there are not allot of the spices in the sauce OR meats that make them tasty to most people over 10 years old.

In my experience as a LC Manager, we sold VERY FEW pizzas that had other normal ingredients.

Domino's also is made to appeal to the non-spicy croud, cheap, made to order, and better tasting in my opinion than LC.

Pizza Hut { Pepsi Co. } is the best tasting in my opinion of the 3. Fairly good spices etc.. But I gotta say that the non-national / independent / non-publicly traded Companies make the best. GREAT Pizza costs $$$ to make and the taste is totally worth it ! { believe me, I understand these hard economic times may dictate your choice as well } Freshly ground real Italian sausage, fresh mushrooms, tomatos, green peppers and freshly cut meats just can't be beat !

How much will it cost for a 10 day holiday in San Diego?

Budget about $60 a day for food (more if you like higher priced restaurants). So $40 for incidentals is about right. $1000 is right in the ballpark (if you don't do the theme parks).

There are great discounts available for Balboa Park (see below) I really suggest you see what it has to offer. It's free to walk around the gardens and trails. The building facades were used in the movie Citizen Kane as a stand in for Xanadu (Hearst Castle).

The trolley pass cost $5 a day and are available at vending machines at the trolley stations. Sometimes the credit card reader is flaky so it's a good idea to have cash for the machine.

The trolley will take you to most of the downtown (Balboa Park, Zoo, Seaport Village) and Mission Valley locations. There are two major shopping malls on the trolley line in Mission Valley as well at the unique Horton Plaza mall downtown. The Horton Plaza architecture is very unusual and worth a look.

To get to the beach you'll need to take a bus. Depending on where you are staying in town, if you are near the trolley line, transfer at the Old Town Transit Center to the #8 Bus to Mission and Pacific Beach. It takes you right past Sea World and through the heart of Mission and Pacific Beach, one block from the ocean.

Mission and Pacific Beach are your best bet for fun in the sun. Belmont Park has a vintage wooden roller coaster (one of two remaining seaside coasters on the west coast) as well as other rides. There is a strand (boardwalk) that runs the entire 3 mile length of both beaches. It's a great place to walk, run, sun, rent a bike or skates. Pacific Beach is also great for nightlife and has a variety of places to eat and drink. It's much more laid back then the Gaslamp downtown and has less tourists and more locals.

Some must see attractions are the world famous Zoo, Sea World, and Balboa Park. Balboa Park is the largest urban cultural park in the country. You can get a park passport which allows you entry to a dozen museums as well as the zoo.

Other attractions in the park are the Air and Space Museum, Ruben H. Fleet Science Center, the Natural History Museum, the Museum of Man, the Automotive Museum, the Old Globe Theatre, the Hall of Champions, the Botanical Gardens, and the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world (free concerts on Sunday).

La Jolla offers great views, great surfing, great food, great theater, and great shopping.

Check out the surfers at historic Windansea Beach. At low tide you can walk out onto the tide pools. Walk along the Cove and check out the caves. Visit the Museum of Contemporary Art. Take a stroll on Prospect St and check out the shops, galleries, and have some authentic Mexican food at Alfonso's. Then head to the Birch Aquarium at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It has a spectacular view of the bluffs over the Pacific Ocean. The Tony award winning La Jolla Playhouse is located nearby on the campus of UCSD. For a few laughs at night, The Comedy Store is on Pearl St.

Take the trolley from Downtown to Old Town. There is a state park there that recreates life in the Mexican and early American periods of 1821 to 1872.

The Old Point Loma Lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument offers great views of the downtown skyline, San Diego Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. On a clear day you can see all the way to Mexico. The spring is a great time to go whale watching as they migrate along the coast.

The USS Midway is an aircraft carrier turned into a museum

La Jolla offers some great places to eat. For Mexican food, it's Alfonso's. More down to earth is Jose's Courtroom where the locals hang out to drink and eat. The Spot offers Chicago style food with both deep dish and thin crust pizza. For gourmet cuisine, it's George's at the Cove.

The Mandarin House in La Jolla features home made noodles and some of the best Chinese food in town. It's located one block from the world famous Windansea Beach. Check out the surfers and take a sunset stroll. Then have dinner.

Close to downtown and one of my favorites is El Indio. Serving Mexican food since 1940, it's a short walk from the Washington St. trolley stop. It's where the taquito was invented.

Kansas City Barbeque is located at the Seaport Village trolley stop. Best BBQ in town, inexpensive, and it's where they filmed the bar scene in Top Gun. Plenty of interesting memorabilia on the walls and it also has outside dining.

Old Town has one of the best Italian restaurants in town. Pizza Bella features home made Italian food made from Mama Bella's recipes. During the day their courtyard is open for outdoor dining. It's one block from the Old Town trolley stop.

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