{"id":15903,"date":"2020-05-16T02:51:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15903"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:29:23","slug":"200-things-to-do-in-illinois-chocolate-cake-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/200-things-to-do-in-illinois-chocolate-cake-shake\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Things To Do In Illinois \u2013 Chocolate Cake Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 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 With the state still shut down due to 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.<\/p>\n

We continue things this week with one of the entries from the Drink category: Chocolate Cake Shake, from Villa Park, IL.<\/p>\n

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Portillo’s chocolate cake is legendary, and it’s a treat made all the more lip-smacking when jacked up with ice cream and given a run in the blender.\u00a0 Indulge at the Portillo’s in the western suburb where the hot dog empire was born in the early ’60s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truth be told, I don’t know if I’ve ever had a chocolate cake shake.\u00a0 I’ve certainly purchased my fair share, though, as it’s a favorite for both Danny and Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 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 With the state still shut down due to the corona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8856,2878,298,1522,2411],"class_list":["post-15903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-bicentennial-bucket-list","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-dlm","tag-mdm","tag-portillos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}