My sister lives in Chicago, so I kind of know the city. Public transportation is very good, and you don't have to park it. Using a fair machine for the el train is rocket science. But they're reliable. There's a nice ice cream parlor in Marshall Field's department store. If you go to the Field Museum, don't waste your time on their gem collection. Do make plenty of time for their native American collection. Should you find yourself in Ravenswood there's a wonderful little Swedish cafe' that serves great breakfasts, the biscuits and gravy of the gods! Should you run across a short stocky woman with a buzz cut, walking a shaggy toy poodle, and a black and tan creature with a long nose, that she calls a metropolitan terrier, that's my sister, and she answers to Ellen. I suspect she knows some good bars, but she doesn't take me to them.