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I have to agree with a recent article in USA Today. Recently I attended a business meeting in Chicago. Our attendees came from Canada, Dominican Republic and all over the US.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a walking city \u2013 when I arrived on a summer day, there were mobs of people walking in all directions through the downtown city streets, all very colorful and casual. It was very challenging to get past the people to drop off my rental car.<\/p>\n
Your first activity when you arrive in Chicago should be an Architectural Tour of the city by boat along all three branches of the Chicago river. My friend and I went on Chicago\u2019s First Lady fleet which is associated with the Chicago Architecture Foundation<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span> For 90 minutes we relaxed and viewed all the different buildings downtown while a docent volunteer (who refused to accept a tip) told us about the buildings, architects and history of the area. It was very interesting, even the 2nd<\/sup> time! You can sit on top in the sunshine or down below in air conditioned comfort. There are also refreshments available on-board.<\/p>\n Click here to check out Wendy’s photo gallery of Chicago Architecture. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In between your meetings, you have to eat. It\u2019s so easy to walk in any direction to find great restaurants, indoor eating and outdoors too, and great people watching. There is even a Trader Joe\u2019s downtown where I introduced my friend to 2 Buck Chuck wine for the first time. She bought two bottles!<\/p>\n There are indoor malls for shopping. Last trip I had to replace a broken suitcase and got one at a Macy\u2019s in a mall which was connected to our hotel This trip I had to find an adapter to power the battery of my cell phone and I found it at a Verizon store next to my hotel. It\u2019s all so convenient and in walking distance!<\/p>\n There are lots of options for entertainment, such as Navy Pier<\/span><\/a><\/span> and lots of cultural and sports events to do as well. So when you come to Chicago for your business meetings, you should add a few days before or afterwards to take in all that interests you. It is so evident why Chicago is the most popular meetings destination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Wendy Swenson, CTC is the VP of World Travel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chicago is now the most popular meetings destination. Wendy Swenson, CTC* chimes in about the Windy City and why it is a popular meetings destination. I have to agree with a recent article in USA Today. Recently I attended a business meeting in Chicago. Our attendees came from Canada, Dominican Republic and all over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":918,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtbinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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