Chicago Riverwalk

I walked the length of the Chicago Riverwalk today.  It's only just over a mile long but it runs along the southern bank of the river out to the lake, passing under several bridges.

Although it's one long pathway, it's divided into sections by all the bridges.  You can always get up onto the bridges so it's easy to navigate around.

There are lots of bars and cafes and restaurants all along the route.  

There are a few seating areas too, and even an area for fishing, although given the amount of traffic passing on the river, I'd be surprised if there was any chance of them catching anything!

I was surprised at how busy it was, with a lot of river tour boats running, most of them fairly full.

Then I remembered that it's not yet Labor Day, so it's still officially "summer" and lots of Americans are still taking their summer holidays.

I imagine once I get to St Louis next week, it will be significantly quieter everywhere, although that also means that some of the attractions and other things will have started to wind down.

 

 

Dinner was at McCormick and Schmick's restaurant which is just across the river from my hotel. 

Afterwards, I went down to this evening's ballgame. 

I have struggled to buy a ticket so far, for a number of reasons.  This is a highly unusual problem.  I wanted to look on StubHub for cheaper re-sale tickets but it sent me around in circles where it wouldn't let me login, then wouldn't send me a password reset email, and also refused to create a new account as it said my email address was in use.  The live support person said that the email address wasn't in use.

Then I finally worked out that it's because I have an account on stubhub.co.uk with my email address attached to it and stubhub.com and stubhub.co.uk are separate in almost everything, except it seems in account databases.

I don't think Ticketmaster likes the hotel's wi-fi Internet connection - attempts to sign in fail with it telling me that my browser looks suspicious and that I ought to sign in or use a different network.  Fortunately, when I use my phone to log in not via the hotel wi-fi, it works OK and I was able to buy a ticket for this evening's game.