While a steam-simmered (not boiled) hot dog is preferred among connoisseurs of the Chicago-style dog, grilling is also an acceptable cooking method. En savoir plus .
A mural on the NE corner of 47th & S. Prairie was created for scenes shot outside "Ray's Music Exchange", in which hundreds of "Blues Brothers" extras danced to Ray Charles' "Shake a Tail Feather". En savoir plus .
Halsted and 18th Street, just west of Normal, is also home to Kristoffer's Café, a family-owned eatery that is known for their famous tres-leches (three milk) cake. En savoir plus .
Gold Coast Dogs splits the ends of their hot dogs before char-grilling them to crispy perfection, giving a unique blooming flower-petal look to their otherwise classic Chicago style dog. En savoir plus .
Director and Chicago native Chris Nolan selected Chicago to play as Gotham City in part for the subterranean and hidden urban catacombs of this unique multi-tiered roadway. En savoir plus .
This club on Chicago's North Side features live music on a nightly basis. En savoir plus .
In "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), Ferris and friends visit the Chicago Board of Trade. While looking down on the trading floor, Cameron practices his trader hand signals. En savoir plus .
Built originally as an ice factory, the Fireside Bowl was converted into bowling alleys in the 1940s, when bowling was a favorite Chicago leisure pursuit. En savoir plus .
In "The Blues Brothers" (1980) Jake and Elwood are chased by scores of police, hundreds of National Guardsmen, several tanks, and a SWAT team that rappelled down the side of the building. En savoir plus .
Maxwell Street was once home to a bustling street market, and a place to hear many of the first great blues musicians, new arrivals from the South who would set up at a street corner and jam. En savoir plus .
Gold Coast Dogs splits the ends of their hot dogs before char-grilling them to crispy perfection, giving a unique blooming flower-petal look to their otherwise classic Chicago style dog. En savoir plus .
Architect Daniel Burnham laid the groundwork for Chicago's 2 & 3-level streets in his famous Plan of Chicago. He recommend a double-decked roadway along the Chicago River to help ease traffic dwntn. En savoir plus .
The Berghoff is currently open during weekday lunch hours, or for private events. En savoir plus .
Willis Tower elevators operate as fast as 1,600 feet (488 meters) per minute - among the fastest in the world. En savoir plus .
"Blues Brothers" (1980) crews filmed in the lobby of the building, but the rest of the chase, up the stairs and in the office itself, was shot on a meticulously re-created set in Hollywood. En savoir plus .
Other examples of Mies van der Rohe architecture in Chicago are Crown Hall, on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Federal Buildings on Dearborn and Adams. En savoir plus .
Scenes from Transformers 3, depicting the final battle sequence between warring robots (Autobots and Decepticons) were shot here. En savoir plus .
Architect Daniel Burnham & associates included plans for five Municipal Piers in their Plan of Chicago. Only one pier was commissioned and built, in Lake Michigan, near the mouth of the Chicago River. En savoir plus .
The Chicago Board of Trade Building was built in 1930. It was listed as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1978. En savoir plus .
Simon's – the founding Simon was Swedish, of course – began as a basement speakeasy during prohibition (upstairs was a grocery) and went legit in 1934.
The sculpture on top of the Chicago Board of Trade building is a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain. The wheat & corn she holds signifies the commodities that were traded by the market. En savoir plus .
“A Chicago dog with the works” lets your server know that you want an all-beef hot dog in a poppyseed bun, served with all the toppings that make a Chicago-style dog famous. En savoir plus .
According to John Hughes, The Art Institute "was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. [Ferris] was a chance for me to go back..." En savoir plus .
The "Historic Route 66" begins in Chicago at Grant Park on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago. En savoir plus .
The Willis Tower is 1,450 feet (443 meters) high, or 1,730 feet (520 meters) including twin antenna towers. En savoir plus .
While a steam-simmered (not boiled) hot dog is preferred among connoisseurs of the Chicago-style dog, grilling is also an acceptable cooking method. En savoir plus .
You might recognize this mural created for the filming of the original Blue Brothers movie, where Ray’s Music Exchange stood. It remains today as a testament to the blues’ Chicago roots. En savoir plus .
Did you know? A piece of the Berlin wall is one of the many special stones embedded in the wall of the Tribune Tower. Head to the Western Brown Line 'L' stop to see another Berlin Wall monument. En savoir plus .
On a clear day, four states are visible from the Skydeck (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan & Wisconsin). En savoir plus .
The building was designed by the world-renowned Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The structure was completed in May 1973. En savoir plus .
