Sears Towers used to be the tallest building in the world. You just have to get on top of that when you're in Chicago. So we did. The elevator spent 60 seconds to bring us up to 103rd floor, and luckily the weather had changed into sunshine with no clouds during the night. The view was great. Also from the Observatory deck in the John Hancock Building (at 94th floor) we could see rather much of the city. We've been wandering along the "Magnificent Mile" today, looking around in a few shops for January sales. The bad thing about shopping in Chicago these days is that you put on so much clothes not to freeze to death outside, and that makes it almost impossible to try on clothes when you're in shops. It just does not work. I didn't even want to try regular Levi's jeans on 50% off sale just because I was wearing long underwear! I guess we'll save most of the shopping until we get further south. This evening we had dinner at a concert venue called Empty Bottle. We also joined a three-band gig there afterwards with some crazy stuff called called experimental house-indie-dance-rock...whatever. The bands were rather funny, but really nothing to shout out loud for. Taxi's here are pretty cheap, so we've finally made ourselves less Norwegian-like, beeing able to take a cab instead of walking long distances in these gustly winter winds.
