Visiting Chicago - Places to Visit

It's amazing how things work when you live in a city. You forget, upon walking past something amazing day after day after day, what it is that brings people from other places to visit the place where you live every day. It's only when people from out of town come to visit and then suddenly you can find yourself scrambling to show them what is so cool about your city.

I had that happen to me recently. I live in Chicago. Now, Chicago has a lot of truly amazing and great places to visit and show people. However, when you live here you don't usually sit here and think about visiting most of them. Heck, if you're like me, you hardly set foot downtown unless it's related to business and you forget where things are and how to get there.

However, with my friends in town I had to take some time off from work and spend a couple of days being a tour guide. In a way it was good because it helped me remember why I love this city so much. Now, the places I am going to talk about and tell you about are the standard touristy things. I know that. However, there is a reason things become popular and touristy. They become that way because they are cool and people talk about them and then the word spreads beyond the border of the city and state and, before too long, you have a guy in Saskatchewan saying that maybe he'd like to go to Chicago and visit that thing he heard someone talking about. Just because something is popular with tourists doesn't mean it still isn't cool.