<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Illinois</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/unitedstates/il?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><description>Illinois</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Chicago, Say Cheese -- Many Different Ways]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9679-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9679-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We were at dinner somewhere in France when my friend closed her eyes in ecstasy. "Taste this," she implored me. "This is an exquisite sauce." It was pearls before swine, though, because all I could think was: Pain can be exquisite. Or tapestry, maybe. Sauce cannot be exquisite.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nice to Meet You, Chicago]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25086-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25086-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Neighbors are often strangers in our modern world, and strangers are to be feared. Yet an unidentified person with whom I have no ties is standing by to spend up to four hours showing me around his or her home town, a major U.S. city, for free.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show Time for the Windy City's New Class Act]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39009-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39009-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[RESEARCH QUESTION:  On Friday, Chicago adds a new park to its front yard, on 24 1/2 acres stretched between downtown and Lake Michigan. Now that Millennium Park -- a cross between a sculpture garden and a performing arts complex with some open space and athletic facilities thrown in -- is complete, we wondered: Is it worth adding the park to already-jam-packed itineraries?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago: To Ethnic Markets We Go]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63478-2004May28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63478-2004May28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  After a food tour of Chicago with Evelyn Thompson, it's impossible to look at an ethnic grocery in quite the same way.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone Else's Chicago]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24069-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24069-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As I drive a rental car toward the Loop on the expressway from O'Hare Airport, every hometown instinct is telling me that in half an hour I can be sitting on a bar stool at Legends, the club in the South Loop owned by Chicago's premier virtuoso of the blues guitar, Buddy Guy. I know exactly how it will be: peaceful in the indoor twilight, the dwindling change from my first twenty growing damp on the bar, bent notes from a guitar playing slow blues getting me right there under the heart. Later on I will call people I grew up with, and we'll go south or north to another blues club and so on into the night. The routine has not changed much since my high school years, significant portions of which I misspent at Guy's old place on the South Side, the Checkerboard Lounge. When I come back to Chicago I usually end up in a blues club.]]></description><author> Carlo Rotella</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drumming Up Interest At a Chicago Bar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46567-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46567-2003Jul25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Our evening opened with a bad joke to bartender Johnny.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: CHICAGO]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45762-2003Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45762-2003Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving the Wright Stuff]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19191-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19191-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[OAK PARK, Ill. -- Fundraising is a near constant function at many houses of worship, with one raffle, car wash or bake sale after another to buy new robes for the choir, feed the poor and hungry or make needed, and sometimes costly, repairs.]]></description><author> Robert E. Pierre</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Go, Studs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24443-2002Jun21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24443-2002Jun21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Studs Terkel remembers his first glimpse of Chicago as if were yesterday, even though he was 8 years old at the time, and 82 years have passed.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Chicago, a Half-Dozen Neighborhoods Worth a Detour]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39630-2000Sep9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39630-2000Sep9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oak Park]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago Neighborhoods: The Magnificent Six]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35134-2000Sep8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35134-2000Sep8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/il</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:54:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sure, visit the Sears Tower. But to really appreciate Chicago, check out its neighborhoods. From Oak Park to Pilsen to the Ukrainian Village, each has its own enthralling character and is easily accessible to visitors.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item></channel></rss>