"Discovering Columbus" 

Sunday' Chicago Tribune travel section had a story replete with the Mona Lisa mural in Columbus' Italian Village.   To see the Mona Lisa mural click on Travel in the chicagotribune.com >> Travel
 
"Ohio's little giant is more than just a one-sport town"

Story and photos by Robert Cross
Chicago Tribune
Published October 15, 2006

"People might suppose that an Ohio State game at Ohio Stadium--the famed "Horseshoe"--would grind the town to a halt.

Columbus isn't a town, however; it's a city big enough to keep its enthusiasms separated, so that even when 100,000-plus fans converge in one area, plenty more thousands of residents go to lots of places somewhere else.

And yet...the Chicago Tribune stylebook insists we say "Columbus, Ohio" in the dateline, while smaller cities, such as Des Moines and Akron, are considered so well known they can stand by themselves.'

Columbus Ohio, the best known Columbus in the country but just they are talking about how great  this city is we get a first and last name.  According to the Chicago Tribune article by  Cross ...we're "bigger than Boston, Cleveland, Las Vegas or Seattle, to name a few examples."  

Cross wrote about where to eat in Columbus, where to stay as well as giving information about Columbus neighborhoods such as the Arena District, the Short North, the Brewery District and downtown. 

Experience Columbus 

I've heard and read that Larry Black , the former director of Columbus Metropolitan Library, used to say that Columbus is a great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit here.....   Not anymore.