...be a Tourist!

You've come all this way. You can't NOT see the city's most popular tourist attractions, right? Wrong- you totally could. But that's not what this particular post is all about. This is about joining a mass of people in huge crowds and long lines while not encountering a single resident of this city. So let's go! We're visiting...

Millennium Park
A favorite of Chicagoans and tourists alike, Millennium Park has several amazing attractions from Cloud Gate (a/k/a The Bean) to Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavillion and the urban arboretum to the LCD faced, water-shooting Crown Fountain monoliths.

Willis (Sears) Tower / Deep Dish Combo
See the city from it's highest point- the SkyDeck at Willis Tower. Step out on to the glass ledge and look straight down over 1,000 feet to the city below. Avoid the Willis Sears Tower lines and eat some deep dish pizza with this combo deal offered by the tower's neighbor Giordano's. All-You-Can-Eat Lunch or Dinner plus NO WAIT Sky Deck admission- $28.89 per person

Navy Pier
I'm not really sure why people want to go here, but it's the largest attraction- in terms of annual visitors- in the state.  Aside from the ferris wheel- which offers a spectacular view of the city- Navy Pier is just over-priced theme restaurants teeming with over-populated families.  It's the very definition of a tourist trap.