Today visited the History museum of Chicago. It helped to understand this huge city. Immigrants from different parts of the world have brought their habits and culture, black people from the south and Mississippi area have brought their music, and blues is still thriving. There are still names like Andersonville, Ukrainian village etc. In our corner there is Ann Sather cafe, which is advertised as a Swedish chain with its famous cinnamon rolls. One of those was brought to us even before lunch and it was covered with very sweet sugar sauce. Did not taste very Swedish to me.
So far we have used our days by walking around different areas. Outside the city center “Loop” the scale is more human and atmosphere is relaxed.
Getting from one place to another needs time although the public transportation is good and easy to use. The main system is the elevated train “L” , which was built already end of 19th century. Buses drive along the crossing streets and stop every second block. But the distances are long and you easily need more than an hour if you need to move between the L train lines. Our choice was to take the train to a new area and then explore it by foot.
A walking path like ” Baana” is built on an old elevated railway , blue line is crossing it.
L- train is elevated outside the city center, but inside it is underground, this photo from the corner of Graceland cemetery.
