The river is called the Chicago River. It flows from Lake Michigan and
works its way to the Mississippi river. When you exited the station you
walked North to get to it. A few blocks east and you would have been on
State street, (Marshall Fields, Carson Prairie Scott)
believe it or not State street divides Chicago (East, West) . I grew up in
Chicago. :)
Scott Tobman
#22, Indiana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian of Wiggin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:07 AM
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> Subject: [RR] America 2 (for Rick)
>
> We were on the train from Chicago Airport into the city. What I didn't
> mention was that someone who shall remain nameless said, "Oh great, now
> eveyone knows we are tourists". <g> As we travelled in I watched the
> streams of traffic and looked at the housing and neighbourhoods. Strange
> thing is that, apart from differing architectural styles, it wasn't much
> different to travelling into Manchester, or London, or Paris, or
> Barcelona.
> It seems like a big city is a big city though I suspect that a big city in
> the poorer parts of the world is a different animal altogether. Eventually
> we reached a part where things started looking more prosperous and then we
> reached our destination.
>
> Not knowing what else to do we followed another passenger out of an exit
> which I now believe was the wrong thing to do as we never found the
> Illinois
> State Building as we ended up on the street. We were faced immediately
> with
> the Hollywood immortalised elevated railway. I would have liked to travel
> on
> it but prudence dictated that we did not. I was rather disappointed with
> it
> as it seemed very dilapidated. We then started to negotiate the streets -
> a
> frightening experience in itself. All the traffic was coming at us in the
> "wrong" direction (my wife told me off for calling it wrong but I'm sure
> that you will take my point). Even the "walk", "don't walk" signs were not
> totally reliable as, of course, you are allowed to right turn on red!!!!
> We
> walked a couple of blocks and found the river (? anyone know) and also
> discovered why Chicago is called Windy City).
>
> Not wanting to miss our flight we decided not to venture any further and
> looked for somewhere to eat. We ended up in Popeye's (as we had
> McDonald's
> at home). Again, for no logical reason, I felt under pressure and didn't
> really take enough time to look at what was on offer and ordered chicken
> and
> biscuits which turned out to be far more than we could manage. The
> "biscuits" were what we would have called scones and would not contemplate
> eating without butter at least and usually jam as well!!! Again the place
> just reminded me of parts of Manchester.
>
> Having eaten we made our way back to the station and back to the airport.
> We
> then found our way to the departure gate but not without nearly causing a
> bomb scare. I passed a bag through the scanner and, for some reason,
> thought
> that Chris, my wife, had picked it up. It was some time later that we
> realized that neither of us had it and returned to retrieve it! Sitting in
> the departure lounge gave me my first glimpse of the divergence of our
> language. I heard the announcement that the plane to Dallas (say) would
> take
> off momentarily. In England, momentarily means for a very short time
> rather
> than in a moment. I thought that there might be some disappointed
> passengers
> <g>.
>
> Hmm, this may be quite a saga. We haven't landed at Albuquerque yet and we
> still have to go from there to Vancouver via the Grand Canyon. Next
> installment soon.
>
> BoW
>
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