{"id":3458,"date":"2025-06-13T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:08:50","slug":"chicago-2025-day-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Chicago 2025 | Day Six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday was the Art Institute, largely because they are closed Tuesdays, the Field Museum (our other museum stop) is open every day and we were headed home Wednesday. Our breakfasts so far had been at a little spot next to our hotel. Average muffins and poor service so we went on an online search. I found the Good Eating Company a few blocks from the hotel. WAY better! And they had good Americanos. We ended up eating there Tuesday and Wednesday, our last day in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"3460\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-768x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"3459\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-breakfast-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Art Institute had a special Freida Kahlo exhibit for an extra $5 so we opted for that. Interesting, but glad we only paid $5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-768x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-freida-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What impressed me the most was Van Gogh\u2019s self portrait (small, about 12 x 18 inches), Wood\u2019s American Gothic (also small), and Seurat\u2019s La Grand Jatte. I had studied these in college, but to see them in person was awesome. La Grand Jatte is 10 x 12 FEET in size. Impressive use of the equivalent of late 1800s pixelating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"3466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-768x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-van-gogh-1-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1.jpg?resize=525%2C700\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-gothic-1-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-la-grand-jatte-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So many other things we saw there; we could have spent two or three days and not seen it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night.jpg?resize=472%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?resize=472%2C1024 472w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?resize=138%2C300 138w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1665 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?resize=709%2C1536 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?resize=945%2C2048 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?w=1181 1181w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-chicago-night-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was the Art Institute, largely because they are closed Tuesdays, the Field Museum (our other museum stop) is open every day and we were headed home Wednesday. Our breakfasts so far had been at a little spot next to our hotel. Average muffins and poor service so we went on an online search. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3458\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicago 2025 | Day Six&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}