Go ahead, sign up for the BootsnAll bi-monthly newsletter. It's entertainment and helps you keep up with what's going on around the world. Yet, as with any relationship, we have our issues to work out, and I'm talking about more than just the weather. It's the two sides of this city, that simultaneously irk me and compel me to wallow in its offerings. This city has its upscale and classy outer facade, yet digging deeper you'll find a decidedly everyman core that drives the city, and appears to be the real heart and resonance of the town.
Lets leap right to the point.
I can't understand how the good people of Chicago can let Monet's Haystacks exist in the same 30-block circle as the overwrought testament to tourism that is Harry Carry's Restaurant. A day of sightseeing begun at The Art Institute can hardly go awry. You are, however, faced with the danger of uncontrollably spending the day there and missing the remainder of the city. Nevertheless, we'll begin at this American landmark. I contend that The Modern Art Collection at The Chicago Art Institute is a thing of beauty and scholarship rarely if ever equaled in the United States.