The world’s largest food festival is in Chicago and it begins today, June 27, and goes till July 6.
Chicago-style pizza pie. Yummy!
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We went to this today. It was very crowded but the weather was just perfect, cool and a little humid. The weather here in Chicago is still such a relief to me coming from the scorching temperatures of L.A. I now embrace humidity like a long lost friend. Okay, so back to the Taste. The food I had was tasty but it’s really not worth bucking the crowds for it. I can’t even remember the names of the places I ate at. For shame. What surprisingly was fun was the $4 ferris wheel ride with great views of Chicago. After eating, we headed to Millennium Park which was super fun. I wish I could have stayed longer there but my nephew had turned into a big ball of whining mess so we had to leave. Chicagoans are so lucky to have Millennium Park with its outdoor Gehry-designed concert hall, Great Lawn, huge silver bean statue called "Cloud Gate", and the Crown Fountain which is not your typical fountain. (There’s way more in this public park too, with an excellent free calendar of events.). Millennium Park runs circles around any public art space / park us meager Angelenos have. If I could get the virus off my SD card, I would load my pictures. I want a sliver bean statue in L.A.!
(Photo source: Flickr) Silver bean, where have you bean all my life?
(Photo source) This is the Crown Fountain. It’s two 50 foot, glass block towers that have rotating images of Chicagoan faces within them. Water cascades off the towers like a waterfall and the images also spit water at the crowds, like fish or gargoyles in a fountain would. It’s a major splash fest and in the middle of the two fountains, there is a huge puddle of water to play in. It’s a water fountain without borders. Some kids were prepared already in their bathing suits.
For great pictures of the park, please click here. This blogger has wonderful pictures!
