{"id":296,"date":"2010-04-15T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","slug":"train-trip-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Train trip to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eileen, Madeline and I took the train to downtown Chicago.\u00a0 This trip starts with a car drive to Harvard, IL.\u00a0 The train itself is very inexpensive despite covering a lot of miles.<\/p>\n

Once downtown, we walked the mile or so to our hotel, the ultra-luxurious Palmer House.\u00a0 From there we could easily walk to the lake, the Art Institute, Nave Pier. We stayed just one night, and despite the enormous size of the Palmer House, it was just our luck to find ourselves down at the end of a long hallway with some 20 somethings who’d checked in for the sole purpose of partying all night.<\/p>\n

Our first sign of trouble was a thumping disco bass at 1:30am.\u00a0 I opened our door, and right there at the end of the hall, one door away, the party was on<\/strong>.\u00a0 They had carried in their own sound system (!) and it was admirably punchy, I had to admit. \u00a0 We called security,\u00a0 they came pretty fast.\u00a0 Pounded on the door.\u00a0 Much discussion, lots of loud voices.\u00a0 Eventually it all died down and we went back to sleep.<\/p>\n

For a while.\u00a0 At 4:00am, loud voices.\u00a0 Lots of them. Loud.\u00a0 I looked out the peep hole. There’s 8 people, partying in the hall, right outside our door. They brought out food, All Night Party – Phase II: The Munchies was commencing.\u00a0 Another call to security, another round of really loud voices.<\/p>\n

It was the worst night’s sleep ever. We complained, asked for a refund.\u00a0 Uh – we are very sorry, sir.\u00a0 We are not allowed to offer refunds. All they would do is give us credit at the extreme-snotty house restaurant, which is over the top, even with a $50 certificate.<\/p>\n

Beyond this, we hit the Art Institute, walked in Millenium and Grant parks, and then Navy Pier.<\/p>\n

Click thumbnail for photo gallery<\/p>\n

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Eileen, Madeline and I took the train to downtown Chicago.\u00a0 This trip starts with a car drive to Harvard, IL.\u00a0 The train itself is very inexpensive despite covering a lot of miles. Once downtown, we walked the mile or so to our hotel, the ultra-luxurious Palmer House.\u00a0 From there we could easily walk to the … Continue reading “Train trip to Chicago”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}