New and improved City of Chicago Thread (Check OP for Recs)

its the worst

 

I remember when I lived right there and it was an awful Dominic's. They should just turn it into an Amazon Go store and use the rest of the space for delivery.

 

Sighs, man that era was fun af

I lived two blocks from the pony, went all the time. Wasn’t my go to bar (DIAG RIP) but it was always on my rotation.

 

Hey dudes, I’m getting to town today from Nebraska for an 8 week travel nurse job in South Shore. First 2 weeks I have a room at LondonHouse. What’s the best and safest way for me to get from LondonHouse to there around 6 am? I’ve been told express 26 train and J14? Would like to know if those are better options than the train

edit- express 26 bus

 

Welcome, glad you're here.

I don't have much southside experience but I can say the 26 is a bus not a train fyi

 

Actually, looking at it JacobPalmer

J14 doesn't start early enough for you

https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/bus-tt_J14.pdf

You might have to take the red line down

 

Can you get a rental car/parking covered? There is no traffic these days

 

I’ll have to look into it.

Also will be looking for a place to stay from June 5th to July 12. I’ve called probably 50 hotels to try and get best possible rates and I’ve got them down to 350 a week. If anyone has connections to someone with an AirBnb feel free to DM me. I’ve looked into those a little as well.

 

I love looking at online apartment listings in Chicago

 

was pretty good, in particular the chilled pea soup and the pouches prawns

 

Yours looked better than mine did but I still thought it was good.

Big fan of the soup as well

 

Exactly what this world needed, a more bitter version of Malory

 

I've rented the same place in Lakeview for 10 years because we liked the area and the rent was way under value. The unit owner sold the building and the new owner wants to either live in our unit or turn it into an AirBNB. Either way, we are out at the end of August.

Moving and buying a house this summer i think will be awful. Every place is a virtual tour. I'm hoping once we get to stage 3 for opening up the economy, open houses come back on the market.

Finally, any one have experience with Glen Ellyn? I am not excited but the suburbs might be our next step.

 

There is a Binnys and Portillos near by so that's a plus

 

the kids I knew who went to the Glenbard schools were all well prepared for college fwiw

 

Our son will be a year away from kindergarten so that is a moving consideration. Also, with a 4-year old who now has a TV preference, I want two living spaces. Getting that in the city is tough to do unless you have a $750k budget or will live in areas without a good school district.

Our dog passed away last week but when we get a new one, I want a fenced in backyard so when its we have freezing rain, I know I don't have 3 dog walks to do everyday. So suburbs it is.

 

Wife and I booked an anniversary trip for Chicago from July 2-5. Would be staying on the Magnificent Mile.

1. Will restaurants/shops/museums be open then?

2. What stuff should we see/do/eat?

 

There will be no indoor dining or museums, we're not sure what outdoor dining will look like

Stores will be open

I'd go with Duck Duck Goat takeout for a meal

 

As of now, Chicago has not approved anything to happen inside. Patio seating at restaurants will start to open up in Illinois but not Chicago this weekend.

And those that are open with patio seating, especially on a holiday weekend will be very tough to get in as they will be in high-demand. Every table will have to be 6' apart which will limit the amount of tables/people that can be at any restaurant that does have approved outdoor seating.

My guess is that any place where people congregate in enclosed environments will either not be open or in a scaled back version. The next phase in "reopening" Chicago will be to allow places that can have up to 50 people total inside which would rule out most tourist places.

I really hope to be wrong on all of the above by the time you get here but our mayor is delaying the rulings that our governor putting in place on where and when things can open.

 

Interesting to see the City use an “expanded” outdoor seating strategy definition starting next week. Not just patios and sidewalks opening but any seating in a room with a retractable roof or within 8 feet of a wall with a garage-style or removable panel window. Should help boost seating capacity

 

I could masturbate to Chicago architecture

 

Any one hit with the incidents of the last two nights? I have 2 houses between ours and Belmont and the computer store at the corner was broken into last night. Overall, Belmont was less hit than I expected. My buddy lives on Milwaukee and he was up all night with looting on the street.

Whole Foods and businesses are on Southport were getting boarded up this morning. However, I hope most of the protests were contained to this past weekend.

 

It didn't seem too bad. Cops outnumbered protesters

 

Who is this guy talking to? Its like he is arguing with himself.

 

There’s a whole second (third) wave of looting still going on today in West Town, UKV and Wicker Park. They looted a liquor store at Grand & Western which was already looted yesterday; same for the CVS at Western & Chicago. Sounds like the cops are still trying to corral the main group; last I heard they’d blocked them off at Ashland & Milwaukee.

 

So I flew back to Nebraska yesterday (planned trip) and the last few days in Chicago were pretty crazy. Friday I got back from work and walked from LondonHouse down to the protest because I wanted to check it out. Saturday I got off work and Uber'ed back to downtown during all of the riots. My driver got about 10 blocks away (Canal/Madison area) and we knew all the bridges were up so I told him to drop me off there and I'd walk.

Right when I got out of the uber I found another nurse to walk with who lived in the loop so that was nice. I was wearing all blue hospital scrubs, keep in mind. I got to the police barricade at Dearborn/Wacker and they wouldn't let me through. Told me to walk south and go around. Got to another barricade and got told the same thing. Would find 1 cop who would listen to be but then at the next block someone might turn me around again. One actually got his captain so I could talk to him and he wanted my proof of address (I have a Nebraska ID so that went nowhere) and he wasn't really interested in the fact I had a londonhouse room key. He asked for proof I'm a nurse like a nursing license and I laughed and was like man nobody carries that.

During this whole thing I'm walking by cars that are on fire, people looting, and people literally breaking out windows.

 

So I happen to manage a very large building in the loop as part of a larger portfolio. We had asked the mayors office back around 3/14 or whatever to board up our windows and they of course denied it. Anyways the building was seriously ransacked Saturday as we only had 75% boarded so that’s great. We may pull out of the city after this whole thing.

i have dealt with the DOB/mayors office so many times. They are just not helpful or supportive at all to the owners in the loop

 

That sucks dude. What makes them approve places like the Disney store but not places like yours?

 

I really can’t say more but it is a really sad situation and i was very let down by the mayors office. Called the head of the DOB myself Friday and was basically told we are screwed. Called the loop alliance and same thing. Without saying who we are it’s a higher profile building than Disney.

 

Damn, well sorry to hear it dude

 

We will be fine I just truly worry what the loop will look like a few years from now. The loop is going to take a massive hit from wfh and just the general cost of working down there. It doesn’t make sense to be there anymore.

NYC is another one; how on earth do they avoid millions leaving

 

Agreed, think it's for the best but I understand the hurt it will cause many

 

Companies were already starting to adapt their space to today's realities. If you have 100 employees, only 88 are in the office at a given time, so let's just rent enough space for 90 and if by chance everyone is in they just have to work from home.

I work for a large firm that has a ton of office space in the loop. Covid has made me think, why don't they lease a third of the space they do now downtown, and then just have offices in Deerfield, Schaumburg, Oak Brook, Bolingbrook etc and have the central location available as flexible space for meeting when need be. You still recruit to Chicago, but after training people report to the space that is most convenient. You wouldn't have people taking a half a day off of work every time their kid has to go to the doctor (which would they probably fudge most of that time as work from home)

Going into this suburban office corridors were dead so space has to be cheap.

 

Ok, now this has gone too far

 

We are so fucked

 

You are going to want to watch this video

 

Glen Ellyn, Hinsdale, & Elmhurst would be the spots id look if I was dead set on living in the western burbs

 

Really sorry to see Fahlstroms close

 

i love thaï city so much

 

Is Glen’s Diner still open? They were going to close last fall but I think a GoFundMe or something helped keep them open at the time.