Today was going to be a lazy day, after a week on the go it starts to take it out of you as we're not as young as we use to be. I think we left the hotel about 10:30 and caught the bus northbound to Lincoln Park Zoo. Not only is this one of the oldest zoos in America it's probably one of the last free ones as well. Zoos are an excellent place to take photos so that's where we spent most of the day.
We also found out what the noise was coming from the trees that sounds like a very loud buzz, is from Cicada bugs that come out in their millions at this time of year, another mystery solved.
After the zoo we took a short walk through some side streets to where the St. Valentines Day Massacre took place, there's not much to see there now apart from a piece of lawn that is now part of a residential care home but it's such a famous location you have to go and see it. It's hard to imagine what it was like here in 1929 when 7 members of the Northside gang were lined up against a wall in what was a garage on this spot and shot to death on what was probably the orders of Al Capone or maybe a revenge attack by the police. No one was ever caught and it was only around 2013 that the case was finally officially closed as all possible suspects would be dead by now. A fascinating but dark piece of local history.
We then had planned on going to get a pot pie pizza from a local restaurant near here but neither of us was that hungry so opted to just get the bus back to the towards the hotel and get something to eat from Jimmy John's which is our favourite sandwich shop.
