{"id":166,"date":"2008-11-03T20:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlam.wordpress.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2019-09-17T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:21:00","slug":"chicago-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/chicago-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"chicago in october."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laura and I just got back from a great trip to Chicago. We had a wonderful time&#8230; it is a beautiful and fun city. We stayed at the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofitel.com\/gb\/hotel-2993-sofitel-chicago-water-tower\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sofitel Water Tower<\/a>. We got to stay on the 24th floor and the hotel had a wonderful complimentary a la carte breakfast. We did a lot of walking&#8230; 9 miles on one day! And we ate tons of yummy food&#8230; our favorite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetsandsavorieschicago.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sweet and Savories<\/a>. What would I recommend? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagofoodplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Food Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did I learn? Don&#8217;t rent a car \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/RaysThroughTracksSquare.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/RaysThroughTracksSquare.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoL.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoL.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/Joey.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/Joey.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago10.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago10.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoL.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoL.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago02.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago02.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago11.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago11.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoChic.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/illinois\/ChicagoChic.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago08.jpg\" target=\"new\/\" rel=\"lightbox noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/galleries\/cityscape\/Illinois-Chicago08.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>See the rest of the pictures <a href=\"\/Scripts\/thumb.html?illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura and I just got back from a great trip to Chicago. We had a wonderful time&#8230; it is a beautiful and fun city. We stayed at the fantastic Sofitel Water Tower. We got to stay on the 24th floor and the hotel had a wonderful complimentary a la carte breakfast. We did a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,68,119,196,202],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-food-tour","tag-illinios","tag-sofitel","tag-sweet-and-savories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/5FCB0200-0B2D-41C9-BF1A-A0612C3CC9D1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}