In the year 2003 I was visiting Chicago for my first time. Besides the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner and meeting up with all my friends I was dazzled by the city itself. It had a similar magnitude as New York City and moreover Chicago is less chaotic, tons of entertainment, more structured and Chicagoans are really friendly, welcome in the Mid-West. 
Besides that, Chicago emphasised that skyscrapers can be architectonic. Despite others, however, people might say something different on my comparison between NYC and Chicago. Nowadays, Chicago has a new attraction, Millennium Park, and it might be the drop to return to Chicago within a short timeframe.
First planned in 1998 as a way to create new parkland in Grant Park and transform unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots, Millennium Park has evolved into the most significant millennium project in the world.
Located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets, the 24.5-acre park is an unprecedented centre for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design, where you can experience everything from interactive public art and ice skating to al fresco dining and free classical music presentations by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Among the park’s prominent features are the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States; the interactive Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa; the contemporary Lurie Garden designed by the team of Kathryn Gustafson, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel; and Anish Kapoor’s hugely popular Cloud Gate sculpture.
Alright, even better, a good friend is living right around the corner of the Millennium Park!
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