Can't beat Pementie's Italian Beef in Roseland
Rainbow Cones from shop on Western near Blue Island
Ride bike down wood toboggan slide in park at 87th & Western
Swank Roller Rink on Western - glide around to "I the Mood"
Summer swim pools in the Park District Rec Centers (Grand Crossing, Avalon, etc); swim in winter in an apartment building indoor pool on 71st & Jeffery
Crawl inside the breakwater concrete blocks at Rainbow Beach - luckily there is no tide on Lake Michigan
Bowling at Stevenson's Lanes (all 2 of them) in basement of Kresge's on 79th near Rhodes theater.
Walk the ledge around the Museum of Science and Industry and then to the coal mine, walk thru heart, baby chicks, U505 (I was in the crowd the day it was transported from the lake to the museum), lunch in the basement picnic area, etc, etc
2 cent day at Riverview (too young and chicken to do the Bobs - rode the Grayhound instead)
Saturday 25 cartoons at the movie for 25 cents.
Walk down the stairs in the 42 story Prudential bldg - tallest in town
And much much more
There was an alderman with my same first and last name and when I was at Circle, I had a traffic violation stop and the cop let me go because he thought I was a relative of the alderman.
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