Aaah, Chicago - what a fabulous city! We managed to land smack bang in the middle of the most gianormous 4-day outdoor Blues Festival in the world. Even better for our backpacking budgets .... it's FREE! (Free's real cheap). Playing the finale on Sunday night was the master of blues himself: B.B. King. (Pity we flew north at lunch time the very same day). Chicago has an awesome vibe. We couldn't put our fingers on why, but it possibly had something to do with the multitude of bars, clubs, festivals, beaches, shopping strips and tropical-strength sun. It's a cultural mecca, bursting with architectural masterpieces (by Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry & Mies Van der Rohe to name a few). We were staying in the rather upmarket suburb of Lincoln Park, even witnessing a movie being made
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