The Chicago, Illinois Experience 🇺🇸 | Solo Travel Vlog
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- In my Chicago, Illinois travel vlog + guide, I invite you to experience the city through all five senses.
Travel alongside me to the third largest city in the United States, historically nicknamed America's "second city," Chicago in my latest vlog, where I walk you immersively through the five senses (sights, sounds, tastes, feels, and smells) that make up the Chicago experience!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:06 The Inner Chicago Loop
09:17 Beyond the Inner Loop
11:15 Natural Chicago
13:57 Tastes of Chicago
Thanks for watching, and if you like what you see, I'd greatly appreciate you subscribing to my channel so that I can continue to share these incredible parts of the world with you.
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why am I watching this… I live here 😂
Haha, I mean sometimes a tourist's perspective can help us love where we live a little more! I'm from a smaller city in SC, and it's awesome hearing about those things that visitors love that we take for granted from a day-to-day view
Having lived 13 years in the city, it is still interesting to experience it through the senses of a visitor. Your vlog is a bit different, in that you provide us a more introspective account of your experiences. Really a good presentation! I will now have to check out some of your other submissions.
Chicago is called the second city not because it’s second but because after the Chicago fire it was built bigger and better
I actually didn't realize that! Cool bit of trivia.
Chi town is one of my favorites
Couldn't agree more!
Wow Chicago is beautiful, we never cross the Atlantic yet, maybe that's our next adventure. Thank you for sharing this great video.
Thank you! Chicago is great. If it's your first time coming to the US, you'll definitely good a good sense of that American feel here. Hoping you can make it over!
If you visit Chicago again, for deep dish pizza, you gotta go to Pequod's. That's where the locals go. Glad you enjoyed!
Good to know! I'll definitely give that a shot during my next visit. I'll never turn down a good deep dish
Yes the most beautiful city in the world. I live there for 25 years.
There's definitely something special about that Chicago skyline over Lake Michigan!
Chicago is def one of my faves in the US.
Fully agreed! If it had a little more natural variety and slightly warmer winters, it would be unstoppable.
@@asenseoftravel Dude, you’re describing Seattle right there! One of my other favorites … along with New Orleans.
@@merlin4180 Being from Chicago area and after visiting Seattle I have to say it is a sh*thole in comparison to downtown Chicago
My home town. Thanks for this. Have watched a lot of these Chicago tours but really enjoyed yours. I hope you took the Architectural Boat tour.
I really appreciate that, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I didn't take the boat tour, but I need to. I'm a huge fan of Chicago's architectural prowess.
A few notes.
1. The loop is a collection of trains, not just the brown line. The brown, orange, pink and green line all circle around the loop. The blue and red are underground in that section and go under it.
2. The magnificent mile is definitely Chicago’s 5th avenue, but it’s not where the high end shopping is. The high end shopping actually on oak st in the Gold Coast north of the magnificent mile.
3. Locals don’t call cloud gate anything because they don’t go to it. I lived a 5 minute walk to the Maggie Daley for a year and I never went there. Tourists named it the bean.
4. Deep Dish while definitely a Chicago classic, is much harder to find outside the touristy area. Not impossible but it’s not as quintessential as it seems. Italian beefs and Chicago dogs are much more prevalent.
5. I would have mentioned the lack of trash around the city. Biggest differentiator from NY and would have fit the theme.
6. The food scene goes much farther than the famous food. There is great polish and Mexican food as well as hundreds of high end restaurants in mostly River North and the West Loop.
Overall though, the imagery was nice.
Thanks for the notes! Good to know on Cloud Gate. I can't imagine locals would care to visit it all that often to begin with (maybe once). It's a shame that deep dish isn't more commonplace - I love that stuff.
@@asenseoftravel I think it's pretty common place. Some people will just find anything to nit pick at. ;)
Excellent ❤!!!
Thank you! Chicago is one of the best!
Yes…I saw :)
The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with the weather/atmosphere, the L is above ground, and busier is the subways underground downtown (it runs at grade level too), is also extensive rail system outside of the L, Deep dish is more a tourist thing, natives know it’s tavern style, eaten far more often with way more local pizza places, very thin cut in squares. The farther away from the lake, the more unique and diverse the neighborhoods get. Chicago hot dogs are on poppy seed (steamed). Silly to say “oddly diverse food”, it has people from all over the world and deep history of immigrants (including now), is hard to find other US city with as good of food scene. Also odd to say it didn’t/doesn’t have immigration of coastal cities, people moved there from all over the globe and still do. You won’t experience that in downtown or Lincoln. park, but so much to explore beyond.
Any recommended hotel for a solo traveler? I've seen Freehand solo rooms but is there any other recomendations for a midweek stay?
Literally any hotel can accommodate a solo traveler lol
Honestly, I'm big on doing AirBnbs or hostels (except for the occasions when hotels are somehow cheaper), because you get more of that local, neighborhood vibe
Longman & Eagle hotel