Chicago The Loop - The Magnificent Mile - Old Town

First of all, I want to say that this morning it has been very difficult to find a coffee place to have breakfast because we picked an hotel in the financial district and, since it is Saturday, most places are closed...

Anyway we eventually found a place, Intelligentsia Coffee, which was also very good!

As I said we are based in the Loop therefore the target for today is our area plus the North side!

First great stop of the day is the landmark Chicago Theater!

This is Memorial Day Week End and a parade is going to take place here in Chicago! We didn't really watch the parade, but we did watch the backstage :-)

This is Onofrio in a silly picture in front of the 35 East Wacker Drive, house of Al Capone's Stratosphere Club

Crossing the river there are few buildings that deserve a picture: the Marina City and IBM building (it looks like a corncob as a tribute to the Midwest's farming), the Trump International Hotel&Tower (completed in 2009, they are still putting on the UMP letters) and the Chicago Tribune building

And here it stars the famous Magnificent Mile, in the third picture you can see the Hotel Intercontinental Chicago, built in 1924

Below there are the Water Tower (within the few building to survive the fire of 1871) and the John Hancock Center

At the end of the Magnificent Mile there is Oak Beach!

And here starts the destruction... basically from the Mag Mile we have decided to go all the way up North as indicated by our travel guide... well it has been very interesting we have seen the Old Town district, but we will ending up doing 27 km in one day (for fun in the morning we had set up the smartphone with the step counting). Below there are St. Michael's Church and the Wacker House

 Going back we have stopped for a bit in the Millennium Park

And finally the Willis Tower the world tallest building until 1997, when the Kuala Lumpur Towers were built and then the highest again in 2000, thanks to the antenna extension, until 2010 when the Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai

Ok time for dinner at the Native Foods Café, Vegan Food, the first time we ever had Seitan! Unbelievable it does taste like meat! The "fake" chicken wings are even more astonishing, it is the exact same taste of real chicken! 

I am really exhausted, but tomorrow we are going to take it easier, we will be going around in the South area, keep following! Notte!