BL Travel Guide: A Locals Guide to YOUR TOWN!

"If you look to your left you will see the effects of poverty. If you look to your right you will see the bar that 'Cheers' was filmed at!"
 
Update on Chicago, IL with FOOD!

Thai: Tac Quick

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Best Thai I've had in Chicago. Try the Boat Noodle soup. ;)


Hot Dog: Hot Doug's

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My favorite dog stop in Chicago. That picture shows the line out of the door for these delicious meats! Plus, Doug still works the register and they play music like Spoon and other nifty indie stuff.


Seafood: Nick's Fishmarket

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FRESH fish in an awesome location in the downtown loop district.


Pizza - deep dish: Gino's East

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As a subject hotly debated in Chicago I have to cast my vote with Gino's East.. because, well, I don't love generally love deep-dish (I admit it!) but I love this.


Pizza - thin crust: Art of Pizza

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If you're in the city drop all your plans and head to Art of Pizza. To die for. Plus they do pizza by the slice (I have no clue why more Pizza spots in Chicago don't do by the slice. It's retarded).


Italian: Cafe Spiaggia

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Swanky and beyond delicious. You can't find a bad dish on the entire menu.


Mexican: Mayan Palace Mexican cuisine (with Taco Burrito Express in a close second ;))

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I love love love Meixcan food and this is my favorite in the city. You cannot find shit like this in Kansas City. ;)


Drinks: Alive One

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This is totally biased because it's where I regular. But still... sweet. :)
 
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Top Chef winner Stephanie just name-dropped Hot Dougs in her interview with the A.V. Club. :D:D

and as for alive one... rose hill drive ;)
 
Aishas Star said:
Cronulla to Sutherland (The Shire, Gods country), Sydney AUS

Here in my home town we have beaches, bays, race riots, a bridge that has been under renovation for the last 5 years and many, many half nekkid hot girls.
My town in pictures :)

Crounlla riots
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WTF??? Thats a riot? That just looks like people crossing the street on a normal day.....Im confused...what is a riot considered in australia? Where is the fires and looting? For real i kno it sounds like im jokin but i aint, whats the deal wit that?


Anyways Ima take some pics for this thread sometime soon.
 
Good post Amy! Chicago pretty much owns for food these days. :D

Pander Bear said:
Top Chef winner Stephanie just name-dropped Hot Dougs in her interview with the A.V. Club. :D:D

and as for alive one... rose hill drive ;)
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I was there. Not impressed.

keiths31 said:
I live in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Paul Schaffer of Letterman fame is from here.
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Can you take him back?
 
lacey k said:
WTF??? Thats a riot? That just looks like people crossing the street on a normal day.....Im confused...what is a riot considered in australia? Where is the fires and looting? For real i kno it sounds like im jokin but i aint, whats the deal wit that?


Anyways Ima take some pics for this thread sometime soon.
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http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=cronulla+riots&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
gizzoogle

buncha cockfags got brave once their numbers reached the hundreds
 
Birmingham, AL

This is just a downtown shot:
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The Alabama theatre, may become a church of Scientology, let's hope not:
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The Storyteller, a statue located in Five Points, and a landmark. "The Storyteller
Frank Fleming, artist
Born Bear Creek, Alabama, 1940
Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art
Storytelling is a deeply rooted southern heritage. The animals are listening
to a story intended to convey the idea of a peaceable kingdom.
Fleming's deep respect for the dignity and honesty found in nature
is symbolized in these figures."
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Birmingham's own Roman god statue, Vulcan.
Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, was originally built in 1904 and has stood as a symbol of Birmingham for over 100 years. A 10-acre urban green space surrounds the 56' high statue and observation balcony that sits upon a 124' pedestal. Visitors to Vulcan Center find interactive exhibits and displays that give insight into the region's history and industrial growth.
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Quinlan Castle
Quinlan Castle, built in the 1920's, contained residential apartments.
It became the property of the City of Birmingham when a loan
defaulted. The neighboring Southern Resarch Institute
was considering purchasing the property, possibly to raze
the castle and use it for a parking or expansion. That plan
brought protest from some area citizens. Another company
has proposed purchasing the property and rennovating
it, retaining the castle's exterior.
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Sloss Furnace
In 1881 and 1882, North Alabama planter and investor James Withers Sloss built the furnaces which became known as the "City Furnaces." Extensively rebuilt and modernized in the late 1920s, the current steel-jacketed furnaces employed an estimated 500 workers and produced 400 tons of pig iron daily. Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company and U. S. Pipe operated these furnaces, maintaining their position as a leading foundry iron producer until 1971.
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It is supposed to be haunted and is used every Halloween as a haunted tour.
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no the cigarette smuggling, child pornography ring capital leave near you

and then wideI was a prodroid

*cue to a cool John Williams intro*
 
AmorRoark said:
What kind of dog did you get? I'm pretty shocked you weren't impressed. Do you even like hot dogs? ;)
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I meant to edit that part out. Hot Doug's rules! I was speaking of Rose Hill Drive...you know...sucking.
 
Rep Your City... The Lounge Rollcall!!!

wheres everyone from.. what city, state, town, or whatever you might call it....




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im from the Windy City...what about you?
 
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