The last day in Chicago has already arrived, but there was so much more left to see. So we got up early and, without eating breakfast, headed towards south to one of the city’s major parks. Here you can get some impressions of our 40 minutes walk:

The Millennium park in Chicago is almost 100’000 m2 large and contains several attractions and museums. While three sides are covered by skyscrapers, on side is open towards Lake Michigan.

And thanks to our local contact on the day before, we were even able to track down some well hidden murals from local artists.

After our endless walk, we finally took the time to get some breakfast (and talking to the waitress, who told us everything about her exchange time in Switzerland and her fascination forchocolate factories) before already heading back to our hotel to quickly refresh for the next stop of our tourist route.

The John Hancock Center was built in 1965 and contains a observatory in the 94th floor which allows to get breath-taking views of Chicago (in Nino’s case with his acrophobia, breath-taking fits quite well). After a long waiting time (45 min) and a short elevator ride (just seconds as they are almost 10 m/s fast), we reached the 360° Chicago, 1’030 feet or 314 meters above the Magnificent Mile. For the totally crazy ones, including Svenja, there was even the option to buy a ticket for Tilt. These are special places where you lean against the window and it gets tilted by about 30° over the ground, forcing you to face 300 meters downwards. The pictures below show the different sides in the following direction: South (with the most skyscrapers), East (with the endless Lake Michigan), North (with the beaches) and West (facing towards the outskirts and the airport).

And to finally say goodbye to Chicago, as well as to partially celebrate our 3-years anniversary (only partially because it was 3 days too early, so we have to celebrate at least once more), we had a reservation at Bandera, a nearby restaurant at the Magnificent Mile with amazing food and live Jazz. (The only downside was, that Nino forgot his passport at the hotel, so he quickly had to run back and get it to even get a drink.)