[QUOTE=Machiavelli]Flying in for a conference this week...bringing my wife...

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If you get in Thursday / Friday the weather would support one of the architectual tours on the boats (which seem to be a highlight). It is supposed to be 60 and sunny on Thursday. Other possibilities include the Frank Lloyd Wright tours in Oak Park. A walk through Millenium Park and the Lurie Gardens and the Pritzker/Gehry Bandshell bandshell. Breakfast at the Peninsula. The Museum of Contemporary Art has a new exhibit on global climate (I think) change and design which is supposed to be good.

Or you can join the locals and frown outside the window at the people who ruined Marshall Field's (Macy's )