Would agree and echo PCraig’s statement above, or, as the great Mike Ryoko so elegantly put it:
“So if you visit Chicago, enjoy the many great courses, the Midwestern friendliness and the citie’s other amenities. But if a stranger with a goofy swing wants to play for more than loose change, take a pass. It’s a long walk back to your hotel in bare feet.”
- taken from an old Golf Digest article he submitted: “Golf - Chicago Style”.
( recommended read )
If stating by the river there in downtown, I’d say try Miller’s Pub on Wabash for a good hot sandwich and an Old Style beer perhaps: legendary old haunt.
Art Institute is a must, but so too should be the American Writers Museum - just on the other side of Michigan Avenue and a few blocks North. In there you should find a display from another famous Chicago Writer, Nelson Algren, who famously wrote: “ Chicago is an October kind of city even in Spring.”
If there is “golfing weather” breaking through while you’re there, I’d say partake in the Chicago Architectural Boat Tour instead. Catch the boat below the Michigan Avenue Bridge ( the most beautiful bridge in all the world… )
Enjoy THE great American City, and try the deep dish and if you haven’t - some people like it. When in Rome 〜