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Travel and Book with

Madison Michael

Chicago is my hometown and a visitor’s paradise. As a native of the Windy City, I have to brag about the beauty and fun to be found here and in the surrounding area. After all, Chicagoans bragging is how it got that sobriquet.

Chock full of things to see and do, Chicago is a world-class city. It’s easy to get to and navigate. With a well-earned reputation as the friendliest of the big cities, this expanse of parks along Lake Michigan has world-class museums, great shopping (handbag anyone?), music, sports teams, culture and unbelievable food.

Come on. Admit it. Food makes the vacation for most of us and Chicago offers

fine dining with Michellin starred restaurants like Alinea, Grace and Tru, a constant battle between Unos, Giordanos, Lou Malnati’s, Gino’s and Nancy’s for the best deep dish pizza and SuperDawg, where you get a famous Chicago red hot and an hour of nostalgia.

We have the World Series winning Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, a neighborhood arena that was the last hold-out against stadium lights. Want a different sport? Try the Bulls, Bears and Blackhawks. Take in a game or if you prefer, go listen to Chicago’s famous Blues at House of Blues or Jazz at Andy’s.

You can bike Chicago, walk Chicago, Segway Chicago or boat Chicago. Explore our world-renowned historic and modern architecture with tours on foot or from the comfort of a guided architecture boat ride. As you skim along the river – reversed so that it flows out of Lake Michigan rather than in – picture it on St. Patrick’s day, when it is dyed bright Kelly green!

Visit our Irish neighborhoods, Indian and Jewish neighborhoods, Latino, Polish and Russian neighborhoods. Discover gorgeous college towns in Evanston and Hyde Park built around world class Universities, ramble Greek Town, China Town and surrounding suburbs famous for Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio and houses.

Our beaches are beautiful and public, and you can see them from land walking miles of trails or from a ride upon the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier. After all, the Ferris wheel, also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, was designed and constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Can’t get here anytime soon?

If you want to see Chicago from the comfort of home, you can watch it on TV and movies. We have been the backdrop of movies like The Untouchables and John Hughe’s classics Risky Business and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as well as The Blues Brothers,Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Empire.

Discover Chicago in my novels too. I have used their art festivals as the backdrop of Bedazzled where Keeli and Wyatt fall in love. Their museums, events and restaurants are part of the elite upper crust world of my characters for Beholden and Bedeviled. Chicago –its great museums, parks, restaurants and music – are the landscape of my Beguiling Bachelor Series, because it has the vibrancy and excitement a setting needs, and because Chicago’s business environment does create the young, well-heeled and handsome millionaires like my bachelor heroes.

With Deceit on Both Sides, is their Love Bedeviled?

Smart, sassy Charlotte escapes danger by building a new life on lies. Rich, handsome Alex, holds the irresistible Charlotte at arm’s length to protect unrevealed secrets of his own until a suspicious injury lands her in his bed. Does he dare risk family, fortune, and heart without knowing the truth?

 

Here’s a excerpt of my most recent Beguiling Bachelor novel, set of course, in Chicago…

Available for a limited time as part of the Sultry Nights Collection

 

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