Valentine's Day falls on a Tuesday this year, but that doesn't mean you have to settle for the traditional romantic dinner and sappy movie. Unconditional love is great, but there's no excuse for subjecting your bae to boring date after boring date (especially on Valentine's Day!). Whether your partner is someone who loves to dance, dance, dance or the kind of person whose idea of a romantic evening involves arts and crafts, these unexpected date ideas are guaranteed to spice things up.
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There's hardly a more intimate act than that of creation, and you'll be able to do just that at Ignite Glass Studios on Valentine's Day. The studio is hosting a class in which couples will work together to create a single glass heart of their own design while sipping on some bubbly and munching on chocolates. The class will not teach you how to make a water tobacco pipe, though. If that's what you're looking for, just head to one of the city's best smoke shops.
A lot of people associate Valentine's Day with roses, chocolates and cuddling, but the folks over at Chicago Hauntings Bus Tour associate it with one of the bloodiest massacres in the history of the city. The two-hour tour visits the sites of some of the most gruesome events in the city's history, so if you and your lover get off on getting the heebie jeebies, this date will be killer.
On the surface, the Chicago Auto Show sounds about as romantic as a dinner at IHOP. But the sleek, shiny cars, the phallic gear shifts and the sound of pistons and crankshafts thrusting wildly should leave you and your date feeling like Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie in that strange sex scene in Gone in 60 Seconds.
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