Lori and I spent a (hot) week in Chicago exploring art and architecture with a Road Scholar tour. Among our impressions of Chicago compared to NYC (which we were much more familiar with):
- Central Chicago is cleaner than NYC.
- Chicago people are generally friendlier than their world-weary cynical NYC counterparts.
- Chicago has noticeably less panhandling and acting out than in NYC.
Chicago has a lot of great art and architecture but, at 1/4 the population of NYC, doesn’t have quite the huge breadth of arts that NYC has. Overall and despite the usual set of big-city challenges, Chicago impressed us as a vibrant city with a long record of resilience and adaptability. We’ll no-doubt return for future visits having only sampled what Chicago has to offer.
Paul Duncan 
Gorgeous photos! Do you have any of you and Lori or of the other participants that we could use for social media?
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For the most part I did not shoot pictures directly of the participants as I did not want anyone to feel uncomfortable and I did not have their permissions. A fuller set of tour pictures is on a Google Album at https://photos.app.goo.gl/yQXDu8RtiJWNEPCV9
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