Bul-Gama Bonanza

Chicago is about 3 million people, and the suburbs are about 8 million people. So there must be something good in the suburbs, right? There, grudgingly, is. And it is King Spa.

King Spa is a Korean jjimjilbang in Niles, but it is more accurate to call it a temple of pseudoscientific self-care. It is closer to my house than many places actually in Chicago, but its address is not Chicago, and it is off no viable public transit.

There are layers to enjoying King Spa. You peel them away as you keep going to King Spa. I will describe them now.

The first layer is that you will get over your problems with nudity. King Spa is divided into two halves: a gender-segregated wet spa, and a dry spa & restaurant. The wet spa is 100% naked, and the way the rooms are laid out, there is no way to skip it.