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The Chicago Athletic Association hotel is a three block walk East from the Monroe Blue Line stop. The Freehand Hotel is easily reached by taking the Blue Line to Clark/Lake, transferring to the Red Line Lake stop and then taking the Red Line one stop North to Grand. Taxis will also be readily available.

O'Hare International Airport

We have reserved a block of rooms for Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12 for out of town guests, family, and our wedding party. Please mention that you are with the Esposito-Butcher wedding (or Butcher-Esposito wedding) when making your reservation to get a room within our block.

Chicago Athletic Association

We have reserved a block of rooms for Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12 for out of town guests, family, and our wedding party. Please mention that you are with the Esposito-Butcher wedding (or Butcher-Esposito wedding) when making your reservation to get a room within our block.

Freehand Chicago

The CTA - and especially Chicago's subway/elevated train system "The L" - is generally safe, cheap, reliable and easy to use, not just to and from the airport but also throughout the city. The closest train stop to our wedding venue, The Hideout, is North/Clybourn off the Red Line or Damen off the Blue Line. Though neither is walkable to the venue, it's a five minute Uber or taxi ride from either stop.

The easiest way for out of town guests to get to The Hideout from either hotel is by asking the concierge to call a taxi for you or by hiring an Uber. Go ahead and download that app or your phone and save some taxi $$!

Uber

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If you are staying at the Chicago Athletic Association, Millennium Park is directly across the street. You might know Millennium Park by its giant shiny bean sculpture called, wildly enough, "THE BEAN." Chicago will be cold in December. Good news! MP's got an ice skating rink. Or just got walk around here and feel cute and local.

Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, United States

Cole's is the irreplaceable dive bar where Cam and Rhea met and spent every Wednesday night for the first two years of their life together. It's also the friendliest, Cheers-iest spot in the universe. Need that everyone knows your name feeling? Hop on the Blue Line toward O'Hare, get off at the California stop and walk two blocks to Cole's. Tell the bartender, Coleman, that Cam and Rhea sent you.

Cole's Bar

Chicago's got American Gothic AND Nighthawks and then live at the Art Institute. Great museum right next to Millennium Park and walkable from both hotels.

The Art Institute of Chicago

Ugh. This used to be Marshall Fields, Chicago's flagship department store. Now it's a dang Macy's. BUT! The windows will be decorated for Christmas and it's a Windy City tradition to go walk past them, especially after stopping into Macy's to purchase some Frango mints, the official chocolate candy of Marshall Fields and Chicago, still sold at this location.

Macy's

Casual upscale Mexican eatery from Chicago's top celeb chef, Rick Bayless. Food is legit good and the restaurant is two blocks from the Freehand Hotel.

XOCO

Subterranean tiki bar with a great atmosphere and stiff drinks. Four block walk from Freehand Hotel. One of the best places to hang in the River North neighborhood.

Three Dots and a Dash

Great, slightly fancy food and drink just two doors South of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel.

Rhea & Cameron

Rhea & Cameron

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