One of our Portland Metblog compatriots is coming to Illinois for a wedding and has just a single day — Thursday the 5th — free from wedding duties to cavort in downtown Chicago. He’s asking what he should do. I’m giving my suggestions below, but I’ll ask you as well: if you only had a single day to experience Chicago, what’s not to miss?

• Do a 40-minute self-audio tour of Millennium Park.
• Pick a world-class museum: the Art Institute, the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum, or the MCA.
• Have a Chicago-style hot dog from Hot Diggity Dog (251 E Ohio).
• Head over to Oak Street Beach and dip a toe in Lake Michigan.
• Head up to Wrigleyville and check out Chicago Comics* (3244 N Clark). Stop by Wrigley Field and reminince about its role in The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off**.
• If you really want to experience the Chicago-style gut bomb pizza, you could have dinner at Giordano’s (several locations), but I’d head over to the Crotch and have some Piece (1927 W North) pizza and microbrew and stare at the hipsters. Besides, that’d let you stop in at Myopic (1564 N Milwaukee) and Quimby’s (1854 W North), for more awesome book-reading action***.

* Well, it’s what I’d do if I only had a single day in Chicago.
** Yes, I’m a film geek, not a sports geek.
*** OK, I’m hopeless.