The Run Down
Home to the University of Chicago, Hyde Park is undoubtedly the city’s ideal hub for intellectuals. To tap into your inner highbrow academic, take a trip through the neighborhood for a bookish day filled with daydreaming and fantasies about your other life as a poet or professor. Start at 57th Street Books, then take an obligatory walk around the gothic campus and finish the night with delicious Italian food at Ascione Bistro.