Kathy and I decided to run this race with our good friends Brian and Colleen. We all had the right attitude going into the day. We just wanted to have fun and enjoy whatever challenges came our way.
Little did we know, the first challenge would come before we even started the race. While doing the pre-race announcements, the announcer was asking the contestants if they were here because they were interested in a show like Survivor or the Amazing race. He then asked if anyone thought they could hack it on American Idol - here's what happened next!
Yes, that's Kathy singing the National Anthem in front of 1500 people!!
The race started with a mini scavenger hunt. Completion of the scavenger hunt would earn each team the clue sheets needed to collect the 10 City Chase Points required to complete the competition.
To get our clue sheet, we had to collect seven out of the ten items listed below.
1. A printed QR Code - We quickly found this in our Time Out Chicago Magazine
2. Name of the Cubs Pitcher that pitched at the first Cubs night game - an internet search revealed this answer, Rick Sutcliffe
3. Someone wearing a White Sox logo - we started this race at Wrigley, yeah right! We skipped this one!
4. Something printed in Spanish - we found a brief Spanish description in that trusty Time Out Chicago magazine.
5. Live animal - we skipped this one. I saw some people turning in ants in their water bottles.
6. Physical ticket stub - I got lucky and found an older stub on the ground in the parking lot!
7. Proof that we had checked in this morning - We thought our shirts and bibs would count here, but they were looking for registration on facebook. Missed it.
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| 8. A House For Rent Sign - Easy. |
9. A lipstick kissmark on both chaser's faces - got it, with some help from Brian and Colleen.
10. Video with a stranger singing LMFAO's Party Rock - got it!
And with that, we were off to our first CHASEPOINT of the day. We need 10 CHASEPOINTS to complete the race and then hustle to get back to Wrigley Field before the 4PM cutoff time. Here are the CHASEPOINTS that we got, in the order in which we tackled them. The clue given to us is in bold type.
...And Action Matthew Broderick and Tom Cruise to name a few. When you see these clips, we'll see how you do. This place once known as Schulien's is one of Chicago's oldest drinking places. During this challenge, you'll have to know many different faces.
We walked over to this bar on Irving avenue and began the challenge. It was a looping video of about thirty 5-second clips of movies filmed in Chicago. You had to identify 15 of them before earning the CHASEPOINT. Kathy is a movie buff and made quick work of this challenge. We were soon on our way to the next one.
We decided to hop on the train and continue to work on solving some more clues. While on the train, we solved this clue and someone overheard us and said we were a block from this one!
Down Your Shirt fbhgucbeg Ynarf vf gur cynpr jurer lbh'yy frr jub trgf gb 2aq onfr.
Key: A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
We solved this to read: Southport Lanes is the place where you'll see who gets to 2nd base.
When we arrived, we found employees from an exotic pet shop! One chaser had to put two live snakes down their tucked-in shirt for one minute while the other had to have a giant hissing cockroach crawl around the back of their neck for the minute! Kathy and Colleen took the snakes, while Brian and I braved the hissing cockroaches. The feeling of that thing walking around back there made my skin crawl!
Word Play if a River could have feelings, this place would be Mad. head here when you're ready for a Time Out, but don't be sad.
We found and tracked down the Mad River bar and made our way there on the Brown Line of the CTA. When we came up to the bar, the volunteers were waiting with a crossword puzzle and a copy of Time Out Chicago, where all the answers to the crossword puzzle could be found. We made our way through the task in short order and headed on to the next checkpoint. It was here we realized that having a beer might be a good idea...
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The Seven-Ten Lounge would be our next stop, but surprise, surprise, this was not your normal triathlon. We had to complete three events to pass this challenge. The first was a game of quarters, the bar game where you bounce the quarter on the table and into a glass. We had to get 10 quarters in the glass while alternating turns. Next up was bowling. We had to play until we knocked down 50 pins. It took a few frames, but we got there quick enough. The third and final event was to clear a rack in billiards. The bar had Founders IPA on tap, so we couldn't pass that up! Brian and I had a beer while we cleared the tables with our teammates.
H2O NO Like and look at /citychaseusa as we'll be posting this clue in a social networking way.
We checked the facebook page and found that this checkpoint was at the Lincoln Ave John Barleycorn location. We had to build a pyramid of 20 plastic champagne glasses and fill all of them by only pouring water into the glasses on the top level. It was actually easier than it sounds and we got it done with no problem. On to the next challenge!Poker Face At this Lincoln Park place many beers have been pounded. Their street address is the year that AA was founded. Their name and street are one of the same and many head there after a volley ball game.
We figured out that this challenge was located at Sedgewick's at 1935 Sedgewick Ave. We proceeded down into the basement of the bar, to find two poker tables going. The game was strip poker! You either had to win six chips in a game of between-the-sheets or end up completely naked before getting credit for this CHASEPOINT. I lost my shirt, but that was it. On to the next challenge!
While we were doing the last several checkpoints, we started to work on
CHASEPOINT #2: CITY CHASE CHICAGO VIDEO/ PHOTO HUNT.
We had to find seven out of ten photos/ videos to get credit for this one. The seven that we got are shown below.
1. One chaser sharing a slice of Deep Dish Pizza with a stranger - VIDEO
2. Both chasers outside a Theatre or Concert Venue with a Marquee - PHOTO
4. An 'Honarary Street' sign - PHOTO
5. One chaser wearing a Chicago sports team jersey (must not be in a store) - PHOTO
6. One chaser singing Chicago Bears fight song with strangers - VIDEO (got it! - to be posted!)
and, the three we skipped:
7. One chaser in line at a food truck - PHOTO
9. One chaser getting into the back of a police car - VIDEO
10. Picture of both chasers in "The Bean" - PHOTO
Locked Up City Chase calls it home throughout the year. The spot you'll be going isn't open when we're here. On the south side of the building you won't need a key, but hopefully you'll find one to set you free.
We arrived at this underground club on Halsted to find long cables laid out on the floor. We were instructed to pick them up and wind ourselves together in the cable. The volunteer locked us up with a four digit combination lock and told us that the numbers of the combination were taped on cones hidden throughout the bar. Once we found the four numbers, we were to report back to her. We made our way around the bar, locked up together to find our four numbers, 1-9-8-1. We reported back and were told that our numbers were correct and that 1 was the first digit of the combination. It was up to us to figure out the rest and get ourselves out of this predicament. We cycled through the combinations twice just because we weren't properly testing each combination and found that we had actually found the numbers in the right order! CHASEPOINT complete!
From here, we made a big, wrong train ride and ended up at the wrong location to a clue we were trying to find. We lost a bunch of time, but we still wanted to finish, so we headed on to...
HandyMan If home improvement was once your favorite show then the Craftsman Experience is where you must go.
We took the Red Line down to the Chicago station and hightailed it over to the Craftsman Experience on Franklin and Huron. We had to build a bug house, change a tire, work an autohammer and give an interview about our experience. There were lots of teams there, but it was a fun CHASEPOINT.
While here, we also handed in the completed requirements for
Special Olympics (ChasePoint #1) We sent you an e-mail and asked you to raise money through your network online. We hope you got it done in very little time. We believe in this cause and what the money goes to. For credit you must turn it in at either HandyMan or BBQ.
That's the end of the fun! We made our way back to Wrigley Field, where it all began over 6 hours ago at about 4:30PM. We didn't make the 4P cutoff, but we sure had a fantastically good time. The day was a blast and as the shirt says, "Do more in 6 hours than your friends do all summer!"
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