{"id":5708,"date":"2019-11-25T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:54:18","slug":"an-overnighter-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/an-overnighter-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"An overnighter in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I should be baking cookies.<\/p>\n

We got up Saturday morning and went to pick up our Thanksgiving turkey at the indoor farmers’ market<\/a>. Actually we sneaked into the Monona Terrace lot and transferred the box with our name on it from the back of Matt’s truck<\/a> to the back of our car, and then went inside to pay him. I also bought apples for pie and sauce, and eggs, and cheddar cheese for the corn pudding. Mark got some lettuce. Pretty much everything else for Thanksgiving came in my Tipi Thanksgiving box<\/a>, that I picked up last Thursday.<\/p>\n

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19 1\/2 pound locally raised turkey from Blue Valley Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n

When we got home I put the covers on the jam cookies and put the trays into the freezer and packed for Chicago and ate a bagel.<\/p>\n

I made the jam cookies square this year. There are 209, which seems a bit low, and it took me almost 5 hours – from 4:00 to 9:00 PM on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Raspberry jam cookies<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Apricot

Apricot & raspberry jam cookies<\/p><\/div>\n

When we got to Chicago we checked in at the hotel, the formerly Kimpton, now IHG, Hotel Allegro, that used to be the Bismarck, home of the Midwest Archives Conference Spring meeting<\/a>, and then we headed to Wrightwood 659<\/a>, a museum in Lincoln Park that used to be an apartment building. We looked at a bunch of (rather depressing) paintings by Tetsuya Ishida<\/a>, and admired the building. Then we went and ate dinner at Furious Spoon<\/a>, because looking at Ishida’s pictures of beer and fried shrimp made me crave spicy noodles.<\/p>\n\n\t\t