Chicago footnote 1: ultimate Golden Arches

There's nothing as boring as somebody else's vacation stories, so I'm going to dole it out in convenient take-out bytes. Paul did an admirable play-by-play while we were there.




Maybe you've heard about the 50th anniversary supersized McDonald's. It was not on my destination list, but we ran smack into it one night as we were on our way to dinner at the Frontera Grill. Vastly underestimating how popular the Grill was, we didn't get in. Our second choice, on second thought, should have been this place, if for no other reason than to see the designer furniture. But the food, we're told, is just the same.