{"id":127816,"date":"2025-08-08T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:37:09","slug":"luke-combs-checks-off-iconic-chicago-bucket-list-item-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127816\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs checks off iconic Chicago bucket list item \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs had quite an eventful time when he visited Chicago during Lollapalooza.<\/p>\n<p>On top of a headlining performance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollapalooza.com\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the four-day music festival,<\/a> the country music star stopped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/luke-combs-visits-popular-tourist-attraction-in-chicago-refuses-to-go-on\/3802326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a popular tourist attraction,<\/a> Skydeck Chicago toward the top of the Willis Tower. Combs got close and took a photo outside the glass, but never actually stepped out onto the ledge itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would much rather like have an encounter with a grizzly bear,&#8221; he said in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting Willis Tower wasn&#8217;t the only item Combs checked off his Chicago bucket list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNCMqULN1rH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\"\/>\n<p>He posed for a photo with a classic Chicago beverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/malort.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mal\u00f6rt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combs cozied right up to a bottle of Jeppson&#8217;s Mal\u00f6rt, as shown in the 14th photo of the above Instagram post. <\/p>\n<p> Mal\u00f6rt is inherently divisive; Chicagoans either love it or despise it. <\/p>\n<p>The liqueur was the brain-child of Carl Jeppson, who brought the recipe over from his native Sweden. The traditional beverage was first produced in the 1930\u2019s, and after many decades of being an under-the-radar concoction it exploded onto the scene in the early 2010s, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Most people loath Mal\u00f6rt&#8217;s aftertaste, while some do appreciate its abrupt and bitter flavor.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs had quite an eventful time when he visited Chicago during Lollapalooza. On top of a headlining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,27950],"class_list":{"0":"post-127816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-music-musicians"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114990589412906014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}