{"id":1149,"date":"2017-05-21T19:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/uncategorized\/argos\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:29:31","slug":"chicago-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-the-usa\/chicago-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is said the ground is so fertile here in Illinois that when you drop a nickel it turns into a quarter before you pick it up. You&#8217;d imagine there&#8217;d be plenty of hippys and longhairs crawling all over Illinois, right? Nope, not really. You&#8217;ll find some transplants downstate at the universities but mostly you&#8217;ll find &#8217;em up in Chicago. With plenty of health food stores, hemp shops and tons of yoga centers, there&#8217;s a nice underground network of hippie folk. The best hangout for hippies I&#8217;ve seen is a place called Healing Earth Resources up on the north side (Ashland &#038; Belmont) that deals in your usual clothes &#038; music as well as being a great central hub for a lot of hippie-minded communities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1522042.6967790641!2d-88.85261108390503!3d41.83390416622788!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed%3A0xafe0a6ad09c0c000!2sChicago%2C+IL!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1529623690849\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said the ground is so fertile here in Illinois that when you drop a nickel it turns into a quarter before you pick it up. You&#8217;d imagine there&#8217;d be plenty of hippys and longhairs crawling all over Illinois, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-the-usa\/chicago-illinois\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[515,190,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}