My favourite places in Chicago

The Johnny Rockets restaurant was a great place to have a traditional, American juicy hamburger, American fries, classic hot-dogs, delicious salads, an old-style sandwich, freshly-baked apple pie and delicious hand-dipped shakes and malts.

Although it was part of an international restaurant chain, we still loved it! It was a friendly place, offered great food, fun and nostalgic mood so important to the American history and culture.

The place looked like a bistro bar from the 1960s... beautiful, old-style interiors and authentic decor, such as red, leather sofas and seats, chrome accents and bright metallic elements... you could listen to classic American music from the 50s and 60s and thanks to jukeboxes, a coin-operated, automated music-playing machines, you could pick the tunes you really liked and play them over and over again... all of those things gave you the impression of a timeless American atmosphere... the place was simply the best :)

Lake Michigan is another of my favourite places in Chicago... it is such a lovely lake...

First of all, it is huge... it has got 58,000km2 which makes it slightly bigger than Croatia... Thanks to beautiful beaches the region of Lake Michigan is often referred to as the Third Coast of the United States... the sand is light brown and soft... high sand dunes are covered with green grass and sand cherries... there are many ferries that can help you cross the lake to reach Wisconsin, Michigan or Indiana... great parks are located on the shores and on many islands on the lake... you can really relax there... you can stretch out on the beach, have a barbeque, fish, have a stroll along the shore... it was the best place for me to calm down, loosen up and chill out...

Chinatown was obviously the best area to have delicious, traditional Chinese food... we loved all those tiny gift shops offering beautiful Chinese souvenirs, artefacts and works of art, grocery and Chinese medicine stores, murals on buildings' walls, sculptures of animals in the Chinese Zodiac, the Chinatown Gate and Chinese gardens along the Chicago River...

Lincoln Park Zoo is a really nice place to visit as well... it is located very close to Chicago Downtown area and you can see Chicago's skyscrapers and wild animals at the same time :)

Amongst many art works scattered across Chicago, this one is Slawek's favourite. It is an untitled, enormous steel sculpture by Pablo Picasso located at the Daley Plaza in Chicago Downtown. It is 15.2m tall and weights 162 tons. It have been probably inspired by Lydia Corbett, an English woman, who posed for Picasso in 1954. The sculpture does not have any formal name, but people call it The Chicago Picasso or simply The Picasso. We also heard somebody calling it The Woman.