{"id":15893,"date":"2020-06-27T05:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:03:28","slug":"200-things-to-do-in-illinois-united-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/200-things-to-do-in-illinois-united-center\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Things To Do In Illinois \u2013 United Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018. To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Now that the state is starting to open back up following the corona virus outbreak, I figured this was the second-best time to look through this collection and cover the ones I\u2019ve done\/eaten\/seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We kick things off with one of the entries from the Sports category: United Center, from Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unitedcenter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15894\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unitedcenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unitedcenter.jpg 612w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unitedcenter-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seeing the stars of the Bulls and the Blackhawks go to battle in the Madhouse on Madison is thrilling &#8211; or infuriating, depending on how the teams are doing.<\/p>\n<p>But no trip to the Near West Side stadium is complete without genuflecting at a trio of statues commemorating former Chicago hockey and basketball greats Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Michael Jordan.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find Hull and Mikita outside, while His Airness is enshrined in an atrium that opened last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to the United Center 10 times, for 4 Bulls games, 4 Blackhawks games, a 2011 NCAA tournament game, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/concert-flashback-star-wars-in-concert\/\">concert<\/a> by the\u00a0Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.\u00a0 My first two Bulls games came in 1997, a month or two prior to Michael Jordan&#8217;s return to the team.\u00a0 My only game during the championship years came in November of 1997, when I saw Jordan and Bulls defeat the Hornets.\u00a0 3 of the Blackhawk games came during their lean years, with just one coming during their championship runs.\u00a0 The NCAA tournament game saw the Purdue Boilermakers fall to VCU in a surprising upset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018. To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 Now that the state is starting to open back up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568,87,3],"tags":[8856,555,8870,1772,2878,8872,374,1527,4182,8871,1526,2099],"class_list":["post-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-music","category-turkeytalk","tag-bicentennial-bucket-list","tag-blackhawks","tag-bobby-hull","tag-bulls","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-hornets","tag-michael-jordan","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-royal-philharmonic-orchestra","tag-stan-mikita","tag-united-center","tag-vcu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16201,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}