I had lived in IL my entire life, although I had never been to Chicago… Not that many of years ago, I wanted to go to Chicago for New Years Eve, but my sister told myself and others she would go with me, but they didn’t have any vacant rooms in the hotels in Chicago! The closest nice hotel she could find was in Alsip, Ill, which was a small suburb of Chicago.
They weren’t calling for inclement weather, but there were a lot of lake effect storms.
New Year’s Eve dawned bright and sunny, but all of us never got to Chicago for midnight. There were small snow showers that left the roads icy and my sister refused to drive because she wasn’t correct with the roads; Both of us ended up staying at the hotel where there was excellent HVAC and all of us could watch the New Year come in on our TV. Both of us talked about heading someplace that was close and out of the snow, and all all of us could find was Dotty’s, and dotty’s was in a small shopping center and it provided a casino atmosphere with dining, and a variety of gourmet coffees, wines and beers, it wasn’t Chicago, but it was a fun atmosphere. It kept us inside where all of us weren’t in the snow, but all of us had heat to keep us from cold. Both of us gambled a little, and ate the most amazing cheeseburgers. Both of us washed it down with beer and brewed coffee. I may have come to Chicago for a New Year’s Eve party, but all of us stayed in Alsip, ILL for Dotty’s and it’s atmosphere on New Year’s Eve.
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