Chicago? Yeah. Chicago. We went there last weekend for a for a quick visit. Sean was up there for a National Association of Realtors event for leadership training. And while we were there, we did a highly advised item. So I’m going to highly recommend it to anybody that goes up to Chicago.
Is a architectural tour on the river? Yeah, on the river. So there’s a river that runs through downtown Chicago. So I’m going to go ahead and show this off shoreline sightseeing. It’s an excursion that is available there in Chicago. You leave from Navy Pier and from the pier, you go out just before sunset, maybe an hour before.
So it’s a little cooler. And you go down through and you get on this jam packed boat with all your closest friends.
And as you go down through there, they tell you all about the architecture that is down there. So it’s an option for you to learn. And I could not believe how kind of cool it was. If you look, you see where you leave from on this route down below. And it shows that you go in and then you go up and you go around and you come back. And it was a 75 minute guided tour.
The explanation was really, really good of everything that was going on. You can clearly see all the buildings. It’s nice temperature, it’s a good thing to do and you learn quite a bit from an architectural standpoint. I didn’t realize how much, how much there is to it and in what goes on. So we’ll go back up to the top. We’ll see where it is.
I highly advise the Navy Pier one, but if we just look at that picture at the top, you’ll see that in Chicago, they’re downtown. It’s all kind of around this this river. And the river runs out to the lake and they have a lock system to keep the water so it’s not back flowing and all those things. But you go on this tour and you see all the different architecture of Chicago in the different time frames in American skyscraper history.
And it goes back and there’s you see all the similarities between buildings in this city and that city, and you’re like, Whoa, we have that building in Dallas. And like, Oh, I’ve seen that one in New York City. Or and there’s a lot of similarities that the same person built one in this city and they built one in that city and they built one in that city. So you’ll see those across the board.
You can see the different time frames. You can see how they went after things. Oh, good, the video is playing here and you can see some of the different architectural items. I feel I learned a ton and it was pretty impressive. So if anybody has an opportunity when they’re in Chicago, this would be one of the items that I would definitely, definitely see.
I really was very, very impressed with that. And I think you will be, too. So, ladies and gentlemen, it’s just a little something to do.
