Our economics group enjoyed a team building exercise at the City Winery on Near West Side of Chicago in the old services/packing district. The Near West Side certainly has made some progress since I was put up at the Presidential Towers during a relocation in the mid-1990s. That was a time when the city was in the process of closing down some of the most notorious project high-rises. Today there are new condos in former warehouses and some nice restaurants, with the City Winery among them, all within walking distance of the city's financial center.
The City Winery has a free-standing fireplace that is welcoming sight after treking the 12 blocks in the spitting snow from the Northwestern Station to the 1200 block of West Randolph.
The restaurant makes and bottles its own wine, right here, in the city.
Bottles of table reds stand before the gleaming wine-making holding vessels at City Winery in Chicago.
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