The third stop was a Death March Tradition: Beard Papa Cream Puffs.  More or less by coincidence, both Manhattan and San Francisco’s routes had us stopping for cream puffs, and since Chicago has a location as well, it was obligatory that we stop.  For those that haven’t indulged, Beard Papa makes some seriously good cream puffs, even if the mascot is a bit creepy:
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(as an aside, Beard Papa is located in the basement of the mostly-empty Block 37 shopping mall.  This is worth noting, since Block 37 has probably the finest publicly-available free restrooms for downtown)
After getting cream-puffed, we headed north on State
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until we got to Chicago Ave, where we headed left.