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Chicago's Hot Tickets, from Basketball to Ice Hockey and Deep-Dish Pizza Travel Bora Bora is famed for its luxury resorts and over- water bungalows, while the beautiful island of Raiatea is home to some of the region’s most important historical sites. Get the best of both worlds on the Islands of Tahiti. Le Tahaa Island Resort & Spa (pictured) is just off Tahaa Island, north of Raiatea. 52 GOOD SPORTS Chicago’s hot tickets, from basketball to ice hockey and deep-dish pizza. 60 RED MEANS GO Adventure into the heart and soul of Australia. 68 DAY IN THE LIFE An Air New Zealander’s sunny Brisbane. MORE TO EXPLORE 70 Island magic Bliss in Bora Bora and Raiatea. 76 My place Golden Bay with Jack Tame. 78 A big day out LE TAHAA ISLAND& SPA RESORT LE TAHAA Exploring Auckland with the whole family. 86 Stay Swell digs in Melbourne PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY and Sydney. April 2020 51 Travel Chicago GOOD SPORTS You’ll have a ball in Chicago. It’s where home-runs, goals, slam dunks and touchdowns are as much a part of life as Lake Michigan and the city’s famous deep-dish pizza. STORY MARGOT BUTCHER 52 Kia Ora This page: Tomas Satoransky of the Chicago Bulls drives to the basket during a game against the Houston Rockets at the United Center last year. Opposite page: On the way to watch a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field. Travel Chicago IF CHICAGO WAS ever to rebel against its Windy City nickname, Sport City is ready on the bench. Like Wellington on a summer’s day, there’s nowhere finer when the sun is shining on Lake Michigan – the vast blue is polka-dotted with pleasure boats, cyclists glide along lakeside trails and river cruises hum through the famous slink of skyscrapers. When the weather bites down over winter, Chicagoans get ready. They call it ‘winterizing’. Leisure craft are plucked off the water and hauled into storage, as Canada geese arrive at the Great Lakes from summer cornfields. On Michigan Avenue – where postcard- perfect lights clothe naked branches along the Magnificent Mile – you’ll find grand, sturdy buildings built to buffer northern winds. Inside, toasty bars are full of folk buzzing about the Bulls and Blackhawks. With the NBA basketball season and NHL ice-hockey season usually starting around October each year, autumn and winter are —— with everything you could possibly win, just keenly anticipated. It’s when the United for being at a sports game. You really don’t Center– aka the Bull Ring – throws open If there’s so much as a need to know anything at all about ice hockey its big doors. 10-second break in the game, or basketball to have a great time, and the Never been a baller? Don’t know the first be ready for a T-shirt cannon buzz of 20,000 people all fired up for a red, thing about ice hockey? Don’t worry, you’re black and white victory in ice hockey’s not going to be left in the kitchen at the party, to be fired your way, or Stanley Cup is contagious. such is the showmanship in this city of sports. freebies on parachutes to The Bulls are notorious for spoiling their Besides, Michael Jordan is world famous. home fans. If there’s so much as a 10-second The greatest player in American basketball float down from the rafters. break in the game, be ready for a T-shirt history – a phenomenal 29,277 career points —— cannon to be fired your way, or freebies on for the Chicago Bulls – leaps forever from a parachutes to float down from the rafters. 1.5m granite base in the vestibule. Score legends including Stan Mikita stand You can put it all in the Bulls-branded tickets to a Bulls game and it’s unlikely to be testament to Chicago’s twin winter passions knapsack you were given on the way in. your only brush with fame. Actor and and, if you have the chance, this is one of Oscar-winning Hollywood director Ron the best spots in the world to take in a Howard is a courtside regular. Happy days. fast-moving game of ice hockey. It’s hard Even though it’s one of the largest indoor not to be amazed at the speed at which stadiums in the US, the United Center’s these athletes chase a vulcanised rubber design makes you feel right on top of the puck around a patch of ice that measures action no matter where you sit. It is 60.96m x 25.90m. designed to transform from an ice hockey Above the rink, a ‘jumbotron’ dazzles rink to a basketball court and back again. with non-stop game info, audio and replays: Statues of Chicago Blackhawks hockey state-of-the-art instant storytelling, along Clockwise from top: Chicago River winds through skyscrapers; the Chicago Bulls’ mascot, Benny; at the United Center during a game between the Bulls and the Milwaukee Bucks last year. 54 Kia Ora Team mascot for more than 45 years, From above: Javier Benny the Bull is a celeb in his own right Baez of the Chicago Cubs hits a two-run (278,000 followers is up there among the home-run during a bovines of Instagram). Benny is remarkably game against the acrobatic for a middle-aged, scarlet-red Milwaukee Brewers hunk of beef, and when he’s not performing during the 2019 season; Soldier Field; backflips with cheerleaders the Luvabulls, Wrigley Field. he’s bounding up into the stands to give away even more free stuff. He might even haul you down to play a giant-sized game of Operation on a bull-shaped table that materialises on centre court to fill in a two-minute break in play. Grown adults holler Benny’s name to attract his gaze, and score more loot. Somewhere in all this non-stop razzmatazz, an incredibly skilful game of basketball is played out and beamed to the world. Chicago, population 2.7 million, is one of just 10 US cities to boast pro teams in all five of the major US leagues – baseball, gridiron football, basketball, ice hockey and, as they still call it stateside, soccer. It’s also one of just four metropolitan areas to sport two Major League Baseball teams. The Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field (named for chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jnr, who owned the Cubs early in the 20th century) in the city’s north, while the Chicago White Sox have April 2020 55 Travel Chicago been entertaining the south side since 1901. From above: The Competing in different sub-leagues – the Field Museum; David Montgomery of the American League (White Sox) and National Chicago Bears runs League (Cubs) – there’s plenty of room for while being tackled by both, but locals invariably support one or Markus Golden of the the other, an allegiance said to be New York Giants at Soldier Field last year. acquired umbilically. Even if they didn’t play American football there, Soldier Field, with the grandeur of a great museum, would be a landmark in its own right. It’s stately neighbours are The Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium. Does the name Soldier Field sound familiar? This is where the All Blacks, Black Ferns and Māori All Blacks play in Chicago. Everyone from the Rolling Stones to Ed Sheeran have performed here. After the medals embedded into a major expansion of New Year. The confluence of sports in the Blackhawks won the 2015 Stanley Cup, tens the original site in 2002 and 2003. The US autumn makes it an ideal time to visit of thousands of self-described ‘hockey- all-seasons tour includes an on-field Chicago, but the buzzer never sounds on this heads’ converged on the stadium to honour experience, but so hallowed is the turf that city when it comes to sporting distractions. the team and turned it scarlet with fan garb. certain areas stay off-limits – like the locker Include a visit to Chicago Sports Museum, The stadium – its name references the room for the Chicago Bears football team. an absorbing downtown attraction. Take the soldiers of World War I – is set in a major When other sports use the stadium, there’s lift to the seventh floor at the Water Tower municipal lakeside park a short drive from even a second ‘home’ locker room complex Place mall on North Michigan Avenue and, the city centre. Booking a guided tour of for the host side so the Bears’ HQ remains again, leave any preconceptions about Soldier Field is the best way to get a handle their exclusive den. American sport at the door. on its design and clever, subtle elements These are all-weather bears, playing Owner Grant DePorter grew up in a that continue to pay tribute to the fallen – from September – when the sky can still be five-star hotel where all the big sports stars from the classical colonnades to imprints cornflower-blue and the temperature of the day used to stay – what a head start of fallen leaves in the stone, to donated war mighty warm, through to the winter-white for an avid collector of sports memorabilia. 56 Kia Ora He was also blessed by that distinguishing From left: Playing the quality of true sports connoisseurs: the reaction time game in ability to scrutinise trivia for hours on end. the Measure Up exhibit One reason you’ll enjoy his sports temple at the Chicago Sports Museum; an interactive is the gallery of high-tech interactive exhibit; display of exhibits and virtual-reality games.
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