Posted on 07/15/2017 7:55:33 AM PDT by rktman
The sign for the "start" of Route 66 in Chicago is actually on Adams St. a block East of Michigan Ave which is not where the "official" geographic start of Route 66 is. This is also approximately a mile from where Lou Mitchell's is.
If you're an out of towner, I guess that's "close" to where Lou Mitchell's is I suppose.
Ya, I’m an out-of-towner (Seattle-ite, kinda) but I’ve eaten b’fast there a couple of times and outside the place on a light pole or something there’s a sign that says “Route 66 starts here” so I dunno ...
Lou Mitchell's isn't really that close to Union Station, or at least the main entrances that commuters actually use on Adams St. or on Madison St. It's also not popular due to its "proximity" to Union Station.
It's popular because the food is great, it's reasonably priced for being in Chicago and it's one of the last old-school diners left in the city. I can name the others for you if you like, and we can start with Manny's Delicatessen. I've been there too, it's the very last old-school Jewish style cafeteria left in all of Chicago.
It's not close (by my definition of "close") to the start of Route 66 and it's not even on the route. People may indeed eat there first before hopping on Route 66, but it's not the "first stop on the Mother Road" because it's not actually on Route 66.
Where did you copy and paste that from, a Wiki somewhere? That's kinda what it looks like.
There *is* a restaurant next to the sign on Adams St. that marks the un-official start of Route 66 but that's not Lou Mitchell's and I'd have to walk by there on Monday to see if they serve breakfast. I'm drawing a complete blank on the name of the restaurant at the moment and I've walked by it dozens of times over the years.
The first Daley not his wretched son.
Paging Paul Kersey
I worked at 175 W. Jackson for years. Retired in 1996. Not many problems during that era. Odd that all the BS seems to have occurred during the Obama years?
Wonderful illannoy doesn’t allow concealed carry on public transportation which most people who work in the loop use.Can’t suck too much.
Ate there many times. Best feta omelets and Greek toast ever.
Well if you stand on the corner of the train station and look down the street Lou’s is about half-way down it with a red script neon sign across the whole front says “Lou Mitchell”. They do not take credit or debit or checks, cash only (heads up) and there’s like long tables down the center and booths along the wall so if they’re full up you’d be sharing that table with about twenty or so others, fun place though.
How ‘bout them Cubs? Bread & Circuses will solve any problem. /sarc
I’m no fan of gay neighborhoods, but they are a canary in the coal mine, as far as the economic health of a city goes.
Gays, as a group, have huge amounts of disposable (since most don’t have or acquire kids, and most of careers which can make them decent money). Drive them out, the city dies - as others have said here, like Detroit.
Detroit had a peak population of 1.8 million in 1950, and its population is now down to 600,000, a 2/3’s reduction...even though the country’s population has about doubled in that time.
Looks as though Chicago wants to be next.
Absolutely true, that.
I was born waaaaay downstate, tho I've not been back for a very long time.
Shitcago has been Illinois' sucking chest wound for many decades now.
Absent that cesspool, the state would be in the conservative column every time.
What they "allow" and what people are increasingly doing are two different things.
pretty much the same now as then
Oh I understand that. Just illustrating shitty gun laws.
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