Trip report- We love you Chicago!

Thought I would post a quick re-cap of our 4 night trip to Chicago since if you are like me, you are dying for some trip reports on this forum! Sorry it's not Europe, yet!
The impetus for this trip was Alaska Airlines new direct flight from Anchorage to Chicago and I had never been to Chicago. My husband was there once on a business trip. He raved about the architecture and that was enough to make me want to go. Also, we love food and eating was a primary focus of the trip.
We flew AS airlines direct on an evening flight and got to Chicago in the am. We did not get much sleep, so we did drag a bit that first day, but soldiered on with our plans. After getting settled in to our hotel Londonhouse (great location, downtown by the river), we took an Uber to Au Cheval as my research suggested the best burgers in the city there. They did not take reservations, so unfortunately, we got there and it was a 2 hour wait! For lunch! Ok, a bit shocking and we moved on and had burgers elsewhere.
Then it was time to meet up with my bestie and her husband who were in Michigan City visiting family at the same time we were to be in Chicago, so they took the train into the city to meet up with us. I had not seen her in 2 1/2 years. We took the Architecture boat tour on the river with them (something they had never done, surprisingly) and just had a great time, fascinating to hear about the buildings and history of Chicago. I picked out my favorite. The Regis building (almost done). Then we went to dinner at Monteverde, which was excellent.

Day 2- We visited Millenium Park and the bean, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where we finally found the Thorne room (geez, on the bottom floor, it was hard to find). I thank forum member Carol for this as I am not sure if we would have made the point to look for it if she had not mentioned it to me. It was fantastic and amazing. Then we saw the Impressionists and the American Gothic picture and works by Georgia O'Keefe. What a great museum and after 2 1/2 hours we needed to be away from the many, many people there, so we left and had lunch along the Michigan mile and visited the Chicago Architecture Museum which was right next to our hotel. Back to our hotel to freshen up for dinner. A special meal at Smyth & The Loyalist a two star Michelin restaurant, which we throughly enjoyed.
Day 3-We did the Architecture Museum & Big Bus tour of the neighborhoods of Chicago, a 90 minute tour which got us away from the downtown area and we got to see how people live around the city. Then we took the public bus out to the Lincoln Park area to see the Chicago History Museum, which gave us lots of information about you guessed it, the history of Chicago. We walked along the Lake Shore back to the hotel and it was interesting to see people hanging out at the beach with the Chicago skyline right there! I guess not having traveled lately to the big city, I just kept marveling at the skyline. We have no big buildings in Anchorage that are anything like Chicago. We grabbed a quick bite and had a rest back at the hotel and later walked to our steak dinner at Hugo's Frog Bar, as my husband insisted on a steak house as one of our dinners. That evening, we went up to our hotel's rooftop bar for fantastic nightime views of the city. This was the only night of our four nights it was open, as we had a LOT of rain during our 4 days in Chicago.
Day 4-We had reservations for the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit (thanks forum folks) and took the bus out to Lincoln Park again. We throughly enjoyed this show of Vincent's work. We sat through the whole thing two times. Then it was time for some deep dish pizza at Pequod's Pizza (a bit out of the area so we took Uber). We are not normally deep dish pizza people, but when in Rome as they say! Then we walked around Astor street and the lovely neighborhood near Lincoln Park.