West Loop & Fulton Market

West of the river, Chicago worked with its hands. Greek immigrants opened restaurants on Halsted Street, wholesale grocers filled Randolph Street, and for most of the 20th century Fulton Market smelled of meat and smoke. Then the chefs moved in. The old warehouses are now some of the best restaurants in America, Google works in a cold storage building and McDonald's has its headquarters where Oprah's haunted studio once stood. This walk takes you from the grandest waiting room in Chicago past the diner where Route 66 begins, a Greek neighborhood that set its cheese on fire, Restaurant Row and the old meat market to the square where a bomb in 1886 gave the world May Day. Come hungry.