{"id":214,"date":"2008-03-02T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-03-02T19:39:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T02:39:30","slug":"chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came down to the Chicago area yesterday and spent the night in a La Quinta in Schaumburg.  Schaumburg is about 35 miles from downtown Chicago and a bit north of O&#8217;Hare.  Today we drove in to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sears_Tower\">Sears Tower<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museum_of_Science_and_Industry_%28Chicago%29\">Museum of Science and Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They were both interesting but the museum was by far the best value.  The Sears Tower costs $12.50 per person and if you park in the close-by structure it&#8217;s $10 the first hour and $8 the next.  Of course they have it timed so you can&#8217;t see it in under an hour so you end up paying $18 for parking and $25 for two people to go up and walk around the skydeck for 10 minutes then back down.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the cost as long as I don&#8217;t have to do it more than once.  I went up in the Empire State building but didn&#8217;t do the WTC before it came down.  I understand there are now 2 or 3 buildings that are taller.<\/p>\n<p>The MS&#038;T was really nice.  We didn&#8217;t spend near as much time as it would require to do it right but what we saw was great.  They have a German U-Boat that was captured during WWII.  Quite interesting.  There was a lot of other stuff and much we didn&#8217;t see.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll ever be back but if so we won&#8217;t spend money on the tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came down to the Chicago area yesterday and spent the night in a La Quinta in Schaumburg. Schaumburg is about 35 miles from downtown Chicago and a bit north of O&#8217;Hare. Today we drove in to go to the Sears Tower and the Museum of Science and Industry. They were both interesting but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}