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42 HOW TO SELL chicago Chicago HOW TO SELL... by Alan Orbell


Chicago was defi nitely Frank Sinatra’s ‘kinda town’ and more than 150,000 Brits per annum clearly feel the same.


CHICAGO ESSENTIALS VISAS: Not required under the Visa-Waiver scheme for British travellers but remind clients of the need for an ESTA


TIME ZONE: GMT -6 hours


CURRENCY: US dollar (£1 = $1.71)


EVENTS: World Music Festival, Various Locations, September 11-21; McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, Millennium Park, November 14, 2014-March 7, 2015


BOOK IT: Funway Holidays offers three nights at the 3* Chicago’s Essex Inn including return flights with British Airways from London Heathrow. Prices are from £625pp (based on two adults sharing) for travel on December 8, 2014. funway4agents.co.uk


TOUR OPERATORS Trailfinders.com VirginHolidays.co.uk Travelbag.co.uk


GETTING THERE: aa.com batraveltrade.com united.com


virgin-atlantic.com


WHO TO? Families, shoppers, lovers, cyclists; in fact anyone who


music lovers, culture


A Chicago Architecture Foundation river cruise


enjoys a vibrant and exciting city. There are lots of great museums and galleries – there’s an intact German U-boat (captured off the coast of Africa in WWII) in the Museum of


SELL WHEN? Anytime though


from winter and summer temperature extremes. There’s tons to do inside (in the winter) and the cooling Lake Michigan breezes on the shoreline mitigate the summer heat.


the city can suffer


It’s so easy to get to, and get around, there’s plentiful quality accommodation – fi ve new hotels are opening this year alone – and there’s loads to see and do that combine the appeal of a major city and the beaches of the seaside, thanks to Chicago's location on the south of Lake Michigan.


WHY SELL? Chicago makes a great city break


and is also a good base for touring Illinois and beyond or for taking a Route 66 road tour. Recently open is TILT! which takes skyscraper observation decks to a whole new level. Eight visitors at a time are tipped at a vertigo-inducing 30 degrees some 1000 ft high in a glass platform. It offers a bird’s eye view over the city from 360 CHICAGO on the John Hancock Tower’s 94th fl oor. Not high enough? Another option for thrill seekers is the 103rd fl oor of the Willis Tower, to sample the Ledge, retractable glass boxes 1353 feet high in America’s second tallest skyscraper (Chicago had the world’s fi rst in 1885). A great way to get a perspective on the city is to take a Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) River Cruise aboard Chicago’s First Lady Cruises. The guided cruise highlights more than 50 historic and architecturally signifi cant


Yes, this is a refl ection! It's Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate


“Chicago makes a great city break and is also a good base for touring Illinois and beyond, or for taking a Route 66 road tour"


sites and 24 of the city’s moveable bridges that traverse the Chicago River. A bonus for Brits will be something rarely heard in the US; “We are not allowed to accept tips!” For shoppers, Chicago’s Magnifi cent Mile on Michigan Avenue offers more than 460 different retailers including luxury designer labels, and more than 275 restaurants in three vertical shopping centres.


Science and Industry – including the Shedd Aquarium and the Art Institute of Chicago where Hopper’s famous Nighthawks and Grant Wood’s American Gothic paintings can be seen. Millennium Park is worth a visit


to see British artist Anish Kapoor’s the Bean (aka Cloud Gate), the two 50-foot glass towers of Crown Fountain, the BP Pedestrian Bridge, Lurie Garden, and Jay Pritzker Pavilion, which hosts free concerts. Chicago is renowned for its jazz and blues and venues include Buddy Guy’s Legends club. Cyclists can use one of the 2,500 light blue Divvy Bikes parked around the city and pay just $7 for 24 hours of unlimited 30-minute rides. There’s also 26 miles of shoreline round Lake Michigan for longer rides.


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