Article: South Side offers Works -- and Slopes

Christmas shopping can be a real drag.

Admit it. There's no escaping. All that money. All that time. Trying to find that perfect gift for Aunt Emma, who is just so sweet but has no interests.

Sigh.

One way to sidestep the pain of a day in the mall is to avoid that colossus of capitalism altogether and give you and yours a good day out.

The South Side offers markets from a magic shop to the trendy spots in SouthSide Works. It also has restaurants and pubs that can provide enough fuel to keep you going and treats to act as a reward for success.

But, most of all, it offers some of the best urban hiking in the city, with monumental municipal staircases that lead to magnificent vistas of the ...

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