Kotton Picking Kitty Power: Week 5 Thread

[MaximumSam]

That's the financial district.

I'd venture out to the Fulton Market neighborhood and hang there. Cool vibes, pretty safe at night (unlike River North) and great restaurants.

You can hit Twin Anchors on Sunday for lunch. Get there 30 minutes prior to open.

Oh, and just an FYI


Game Watch Bars – The Ohio State Alumni Club of Chicago

Thanks! I know tomorrow we are taking a tour of bars that's about prohibition. Should be well lubricated for the Buckeyes.

Also, after the game tonight, where should we go?

[GopherRock]

Also, I know that both Badge and I'd favorite Chicago deep dish pizza is Lou Malnati's. There's one at 8th and State and in the Wrigley building on Michigan Avenue, just north of the Chicago River. 

Have fun tonight!

[847badgerfan]

Not a fan of deep dish TBH.

[FearlessF]

Gophers like to poke you

[847badgerfan]

Thanks! I know tomorrow we are taking a tour of bars that's about prohibition. Should be well lubricated for the Buckeyes.

Also, after the game tonight, where should we go?

It will be a little late. Unless things changed, the financial district kinda goes to sleep at night.

You could get off the red line at Chicago and hit the Gold Coast bars. There is a Greek joint by the L stop at Chicago that is open late. It's good. We've been to a different location but not this one.

[MarqHusker]

I endorse Badge's recc on Fulton Market as being an easy button move for Chicago right now.

Get out of Fin District,  sleepy is understatement.  I buzz through there for quarterly board meetings and it is just not a place for fun 

[betarhoalphadelta]

If you want another tour, the architectural tours via boat on the Chicago River are a good time. Chicago is a fascinating architectural city. If you like wine [and the weather is OK], City Winery right on the Riverwalk is a good time. I know they close during the winter, but I assume they'd still be open now.

I normally would have said Lou Malnati's. It seemed every time I've ever been to Pizzeria Uno, it was worse than the previous time. Over several decades... Until the last time I was there. July 2025 it seemed to have captured what I remember about Pizzeria Uno. 

Generally I'm with Badge that I'd prefer Chicago thin crust, but I still eat deep dish when I'm in Chicago since I'm basically there once or twice a decade at this point. 

If you want really good Greek food, head out to Greektown. Take the blue line to Halsted and walk a couple blocks north to Greek Islands. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Gonna be at the golf course tomorrow at a boondoggle charity scramble during the Purdue/Illinois game and can't watch it. 

Oh, darn. 

[FearlessF]

that'll make you happy tomorrow

I turned down golf tomorrow to watch Huskers/Terps
turned down an end of season 5-man scramble Sunday to spend time with the daughter that is visiting from Minneapolis

[847badgerfan]

If you want another tour, the architectural tours via boat on the Chicago River are a good time. Chicago is a fascinating architectural city. If you like wine [and the weather is OK], City Winery right on the Riverwalk is a good time. I know they close during the winter, but I assume they'd still be open now.

I normally would have said Lou Malnati's. It seemed every time I've ever been to Pizzeria Uno, it was worse than the previous time. Over several decades... Until the last time I was there. July 2025 it seemed to have captured what I remember about Pizzeria Uno.

Generally I'm with Badge that I'd prefer Chicago thin crust, but I still eat deep dish when I'm in Chicago since I'm basically there once or twice a decade at this point.

If you want really good Greek food, head out to Greektown. Take the blue line to Halsted and walk a couple blocks north to Greek Islands.

I was going to recommend that too, but he doesn't have much time with going to the game. Greek Town on a Friday is a lot of fun.

One of my captain buddies works the river architectural tour. I think they are done for the season now, with daily tours. They do a few times per week now until Spring. Note, these tours have gotten really expensive - like $200/person expensive. Plus drinks.

[FearlessF]

guessing the drinks are NOT cheap

[rolltidefan]

The wife was more receptive to football than I thought, so we will be in the stands for NW v. PSU

i was gonna make a quip about choosing a bigger/better game to go to for your wife (something stupid like elmhurst game) and saw there is a midwestern university basically right beside northwestern. brought up 2 questions in my feeble mind:
1 - is northwestern, being a university in the midwest, named that because midwestern uni was already taken and basically in same location?
2 - is there a southwestern and eastwestern university in cook county as well? or just western, or central western? westwestern?

[847badgerfan]

i was gonna make a quip about choosing a bigger/better game to go to for your wife (something stupid like elmhurst game) and saw there is a midwestern university basically right beside northwestern. brought up 2 questions in my feeble mind:
1 - is northwestern, being a university in the midwest, named that because midwestern uni was already taken and basically in same location?
2 - is there a southwestern and eastwestern university in cook county as well? or just western, or central western? westwestern?

When Northwestern was founded, it was in the Northwest Territory.

It's kinda like in the Michigan fight song, where they self-proclaim to be the "Champions of the West".

[betarhoalphadelta]

Apparently it's named after the Northwest Territory. 

The US has always been east-centric. Pretty sure everyone there thinks of anything west of the Appalachians as being "out west". 

And back in 1851 when Northwestern was founded, I think it was even more so. California had just been admitted as a state. Iowa and Wisconsin had only been admitted in the previous 5 years. Minnesota and Kansas hadn't been yet. 

So we think of it as the Midwest now, but the country was very different then.