We drove from the RV park into Chicago, it was nearly 2 hours. We thought we would save time by taking the toll road. not a good decision. we had 3 tolls, one to get on $1.00, one in Indiana before state line, that took us 15 minutes to get through and cost $2.40. the 7 minutes later we hit another toll in Illinois, that was $5.20 and took another 10 minutes. unbelievable!
Finally we got to Navy Pier which is on the Michigan lake water front, parking was super crowded but for a fixed price of $30 its convenient. The pier is all remodeled and updated, its fun and dotted with restaurants and bars. We booked a boat tour which was described as an architectural tour of Chicago landmarks. It was excellent, first we went out into Lake Michigan to look back at Chicago water front, then we went up the Chicago river through the city for about 5 miles. it was surprisingly worth while (I'm often skeptical of the quality of city tours) and the guide who narrated to the tour was informative but mostly funny in a sort of way that's hard to describe, not poking fun but a little bit irreverent and quoting surprising facts and rumors of the Chicago people and buildings!
Got lots of fabulous photos of the city and learnt quite a bit of the history
We didn't have time to explore more as its a 2 our drive back to Bass Lakes, still I already have another trip in mind - adults only I think!
