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Chicago is, famously, a city of neighborhoods. For visitors, setting up a temporary base in one of the neighborhoods offers many advantages. This is especially true for leisure travelers. Without an expense account to ease downtown's hotel bills and menu shock, staying right downtown can get very costly very quickly.When choosing accommodations in Chicago, it pays to look beyond the Loop and the Magnificent Mile. A walk up Clark Street or Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park opens up miles of reasonably priced dining possibilities. Along one short stretch of the former you'll pass an excellent fusion restaurant, a take-out crepes place, a grocery store, and a couple of diners where the waitress might call you "hon." There's also better and cheaper parking. Downtown you'll usually pay at least $30 a day. Rates at garages in outlying neighborhoods run less. There's even a chance, albeit rather remote, of finding street parking.If you'd like to be somewhat near downtown, the happening Lincoln Park and Lake View neighborhoods offer a handful of hotels. As a bonus, accommodations are relatively near the lakefront.
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