Illinois
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Illinois is the state just south of Wisconsin, and for me, it mostly means Chicago. Every international trip I have taken since 2018, including Italy and Ireland, started with a bus or car ride to Chicago O’Hare and a flight out of it, which costs a lot less than flying out of Mitchell International in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The deep-dish pizzas in the photograph at the top were waiting under glass in Terminal 1 in January 2019, on the way to the flight to London. I have also gone down to the city itself: to the Museum of Science and Industry in July 2018, to Rate Field on the Green Line for the celebration of Pope Leo XIV in June 2025, and for deep dish and the river in June 2026.
Places visited
Places I visited in Illinois
The Chicago River from the Adams Street bridge, in June 2026. Chicago
The river from the Adams Street bridge, a United 727 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Union Station’s Great Hall, and Rate Field.
Rainbow neon over the moving walkways between concourses B and C in Terminal 1, on January 18, 2019. Chicago O’Hare
The rainbow neon tunnel in Terminal 1, a panda-painted Hainan Airlines 787 at a Terminal 5 gate, a departures board from 2018, and lounge signs from 2024.
Photos from Illinois
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The top of the shaft in the Coal Mine at the Museum of Science and Industry, in July 2018.
The Clinton platform on the L, where I caught the Green Line to the ballpark in June 2025.
Deep dish for lunch in Chicago, in June 2026.