PERFECT 2 Days in Chicago (USA’s CULTURAL gem?) 😍 Things to Do + Eat!
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Planning a trip to Chicago? Join us as we spend 2 days in Chicago! This travel guide will help you have the best trip to Chicago, from where to eat, what to do, unique places to visit, and tips for visiting.
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Lou Malnati's is my favorite for deep dish pizza, but Giordano's, Pizzeria Uno, and Gino's East are also all excellent choices. My understanding is that Lou Malnati was a pizza chef at Pizzeria Uno when he developed deep dish pizza, and he later left to start his own pizzeria.
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0:00 Intro
I've watched a lot of YouTube videos of people doing Chicago things and I have to say the way that you guys ordered your beefs was the closest to legitimate as I've ever seen. Although I'll normally get the giardiniera right on the sandwich. Other than that, hats off for doing it correct.
0:44 Millenium Park
3:46 Trying Chicago's best Italian Beef at Mr. Beef
It's so interesting to hear young people talking about Chicago. Born and raised on the southside in 1958. Was a Chicago cop and retired from the Chicago fire department. Chicago is more beautiful than ever before but it has lost SO much character and its soci😊al structure is in tatters. Sorry to sound like an old bitter guy but I remember this city in the early 60s....till today.
6:16 Riding the Brown Line on The L
7:02 Tips for Packing for Chicago
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8:27 Meeting Cubs fans at Wrigley Stadium
10:17 Montrose Harbor
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11:29 Chicago jazz at Andy's Nightclub
13:14 Willis Tower
Yeah, l figured out this transplant girl saying Lincoln park not knowing the city. I believe she was suggesting Wicker Park, which was never really Hispanic. Pollack and German growing up in the hood. Just look at the place names of the streets and Schools. The city was always changing the ethnicity of the hoods
15:47 Art Institute of Chicago
16:27 Trying the Best Chicago hot dog at Portillo's
Lincoln Park was NEVER a Puerto Rican neighborhood. I'm a born Chicagoan (1957) grew up in Logan Square and have seen All the neighborhood changes. You are getting some very flawed information. But it is the most wonderful town in the country.
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Chicago is fantastic 😊
20:38 Trying deep dish pizza at Lou Malnati's
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Honestly most Chicagoans don’t eat deep dish
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So you went to the worst place to see baseball that I've ever been. Should have went to a White Sox game. 🙄
Does anybody actually enjoy a salad on a hot dog??? Just put ketchup on it. It will be okay.
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Any real Chicagoan would have yelled to skip the deep dish and order tavern style.
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Hang out on the south side for a day or so.
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Lake Michigan is what makes Chicago.
She is gorgeous!
The planners made sure everyone gets to enjoy her, for free 🥰
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@K4al8l-m3cSorry, but deep dish pizza is tourist pizza. Chicagoans rarely ever eat it. 95% of the time we eat square cut, Tavern Style which a thin crust pizza.
@paulavram6314Vising in 2 weeks, so I'm training myself with these videos lol!!
@carlosbaltodano9239What time of the year did you go?
@lbennett124I plan on going to Chicago this coming year (in May), and this video gave me some rough ideas on what to do and where to go! Thanks guys!
@DrSaintDDSNice piece. A couple other thoughts for anyone visiting our fair city: 1) Deep dish is fine but locals will always recommend a neighborhood place that serves tavern style pizza (very thin, cut into smallish squares so you can have pizza in this hand and beer in that hand). 2) Speaking of neighborhoods, the Loop and River North, where most of this is filmed, are visually spectacular but the neighborhoods are where you find gems that locals know about. For instance, there's blues at places like Buddy Guy's Legends (South Loop) and Kingston Mines (Lincoln Park), jazz at The Green Mill (Uptown) and MULTIPLE Michelin star restaurants in West Loop if you're attracted by The Bear scene (and have some money). 3) You skipped Second City. Maybe next time. Highly entertaining and you just might catch someone who'll be a household name down the road.
@Phil-in-ChicagoWorld class city unknown to the world. I am lucky to live here. Play beach volleyball just steps from a 1,000’ skyscraper. Lots of great restaurants, neighborhoods, friendly, normal people, diversified job market, sports activities, museums, bars and nightclubs, and on and on and on. Excellent suburbs. Yes, we have a winter, and don’t worry, you won’t be going to the bad neighborhoods anyway.
@privatename123I don’t think I need to go to Chicago, I’ll stay in New York lol but great video!
@Itsnathalia_sThe City is bankrupt. Major companies have been fleeing for years. Your tourist perspective is fine, but the Chicago government is communist and has betrayed its citizens and just doubled their taxes to continue supporting a massive influx of illegal immigrants.
@garymacmillanSave Ferris!
@EdwardAndersenThanks for such a great video showing off my home town! 😊 Chicago is the best most beautiful city in the USA.
@jacobswindler5213Imo the museum of Science and Industry is the most fun of all the museums in Chicago, when I was in grade school we went there on field trips and as I got older it's still my favorite, also the Planetarium is great
@jefftucker9225Being from Chicago I can say that we mostly eat thin crust pizza, of course maybe once or twice a year I'll get deep dish but it's not something I order every week
@jefftucker9225sooo love Chicago! plus u featured the best spots!
@IreneGOfficialI love putting on much ketchup on my chicago hot dog.
@ArtFreemanFerris!!!!
@kquack5631Born and raised there. Mixed emotions in today’s Chicago, but growing up there was great.
However I did notice she didn’t have that expensive camera draped around her neck when they rode the Brown line. Pretty and smart..
I enjoy visiting the Downtown Chicago areas since i was born and raised in the North Shore suburbs of Winnetka and i enjoy my new home in the Indiana Dunes. If you ever come back, please feel free to check out the Home Alone house in my hometown.
@EmilyW2000Definitely Lou Malnati's
@howardbinder6956nobody ever visits the south side. I wonder why.
@rtaylor802Bueller.
Bueller.
*Chicago dog is a garden, with a Vienna Beef or Red Hot. The Cities motto is Urbs in Horto, which is latin for City in a Garden.
So….. City in a Hot Dog
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Pequod’s, Pizano’s, Ranalli’s, Tortorices, Art of Pizza, Professor Pizza, Nick and Vito’s.
We do deep dish sometimes, mostly when people are in town. The locals go-to is tavern style square cut.
Sears Tower! correct.
@ChiCity1024I see a couple others were at that Cubs game - so was I. Too bad they lost. 😞 Nice video though!! Pretty typical touristy spots, but still a fun watch.
@lindab2323i love the fact yall was at the crib!! i love my city
@mikem-jrMy favorite isn't a deep dish It's the thin Chicago pizza cut into little squares instead of triangles. There's hundreds of neighborhood pizza places selling a thin crust pizza in Chicago and they're all different and they're all delicious. But as far as thick pizza goes I like the Giordano's stuffed pizza. I grew up a couple blocks from where their first restaurant opened and have been eating it since the '70s. But the place you guys went Lou Malnati's is a very good choice. Delicious pizza.
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