Windy Chicago beckons with its spring blossoms and sun

Ask any Midwesterner, and they will tell you to hurriedly pack your bags - the season to visit Chicago is nigh.

The Windy City, notorious for its bone-chilling winters and months-long deep freeze, blossoms in the late spring to become a beautiful, breezy, cultural and culinary paradise, where the world basks in the sunshine and people amble by the lake.

So with winter skin newly shed, it is prime time to jet set into this happening hub.