We enjoyed the visit to Chicago. And we walked all over the city - shops were nearby (Paneras and Whole Foods were both helpful) and we walked to both. It was also an easy walk to Union station which was useful as we took a train to Chicago and back to NYC. A good place to play games, which kept us occupied.A couple of things you might want to know in advance. There were six steps up between the front door and the level of the elevator to the upper floors. There is a handicapped lift to avoid those six steps, but how to use it is not obvious, so if you will need it you should ask in advance how to operate it. The doors to the two bedrooms were sliding doors, which is a bit unusual, but they worked fine. The clothes washer/dryer worked well, but there wasn’t an instruction manual with it, so we checked online for where we should put the detergent and found that the laundry pods which had been provided should go in the tub with the clothes. There were coffee packets provided for the coffee maker, but the packets didn’t say how much coffee they made, so we checked online the packagers website and learned that we should use 10 cups of water with them.We liked the apartment, and would happily stay there again.