New heights

One obvious place we had yet to visit - Willis Tower, once known as Sears Tower, still the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere - can be checked off that list as of today.

A nice family of four touring with Chicago CityPasses handed us their unused tickets for Willis Tower's Skydeck while we were at Navy Pier last weekend, and we managed to get there on our last day before driving to Tennessee.

We're glad we had those passes, and we don't plan on going back there without them. Aside from the cost, they saved us a long wait in line (CityPass guarantees expedited entry) unlike anything we've seen in Chicago.

The big draw is the Ledge. See for yourself.


Yikes!