Chicago!

[tzikeh]

Suddenly got curious as to how many of you are here or near here!

ETA: Even if you're not in, or near, Chicago, you can still tick the ticky boxes!

[Poll #1621096]

Comments

[slb44.livejournal.com]

A fantastic theatre town!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

D'OH!

[klia.livejournal.com]

An architectural wonder. Plus, people in other countries think it's still full of prohibition-era gangsters. Heh.

Oh, and un-freaking-believably cold in the winter.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's not that cold! For the past several years, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have had *far* colder winters than we have.

But yes, the architecture. Man.

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

I like Chicago a great deal. I've been there once as a tourist. Stayed at the Drake. Walked the Mile and saw the big shiny donut looking sculpture. Ate local pizza. Prefer the observation deck at the Hancock to the one at the Sears Tower. Went to one of the big ol' sciencey museums.

I want to visit again sometime. It was fun.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Donut? Where, pray tell? I want to see the donut!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It is-so windy! THEY CALL IT THE HAWK! :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Piker.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Great RESTAURANTS. It is my dream to go on a culinary tour of Chicago someday.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hee - I *just* got a $50 gift certificate to any of the Lettuce Entertain You restaurants in Chicago (Everest, Tru, Hub 21, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba, etc.). I think I will be having a nice dinner out soon!

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

I miss Chicago so. damn. much. ::sigh::

It may be about three hours away, but it's still the closest outpost of civilization to my current residence.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:nod: I don't know that I could live away from a city, but if I wind up with limited options for a teaching job once I get my certificate (Chicago's public high schools are being shut down daily), I'll have to choose employment over civilization.

I do not look forward to this.

[karfinwen-88.livejournal.com]

I'm in the south suburbs, actually. We're 1/2 mile from the city limits, and my high school was by Mt. Greenwood :)

Where are you?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm by where Lawrence Avenue hits the lake :D

[karfinwen-88.livejournal.com]

Also, it's really not that windy unless you catch an unlucky day right on the lakefront.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I love the architecture. And the art! It's the most lovely place in the world in September (usually). It also is hopeless if you are a) a vegetarian and b) allergic to garlic and c) can't eat fried or oily foods. :D So, it's a good place for me to go if I want a crash diet.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Huh! There are lots and lots of vegetarian restaurants here--when was the last time you checked around Chi-town for that?

[ipstenu.livejournal.com]

Chicago is Home :) When I come in on a plane and see the skyline, I feel ... warm and happy inside. Seriously.

Home.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I think Chicago is a decent musical? But that wasn't a tickybox.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

What's the point of having opinions if they aren't extreme!

(Though Jon Stewart disagrees with me....)

[nebt-het.livejournal.com]

A great place for museums and jazz!

Chicago is...

[terrio]

...too damn far away. ::sulks::

[carbonel]

I didn't mean to click the "I live in Chicago" button, and there doesn't seem to be any way to unclick it.

I used to live in Chicago, but have been in Minneapolis for 30 years now. But family is still here and I visit several times a year.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Click on the "Poll #1621096" link at the top (just under the ETA). Then click "fill out the poll" at the top of that page. If you're signed in, it will recognize you and rewrite your choices.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Chicago is:

a place I visited once and would love to visit again.

/New Yorker

[miz24601.livejournal.com]

Chicago is:

An awesome and beautiful city that has all the benefits of NYC or LA without the coastal craziness.

The city with the most perpetually losing baseball team.

Not fun in winter.

Home! :-)

[azriona.livejournal.com]

Wasn't The Jungle set in Chicago?

Ha! It was. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle) I remember that book so well - I think the English and History teachers combined forces with that one because we read it while at the same time studying that period of history. Turned the entire class into vegetarians for a week solid.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I do not live in Chicago, but I very much want to and am actively looking for a job there. (Anything in the tech writing/editing/research support/IRB compliance/university admin areas. Chicagoans! Hire me!)

[norah.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you did this poll, because I am about to live in Chicago (okay, fine, the near western suburbs) in about three weeks (cue quiet moving-and-packing gibbering) and I would love to know more good people 'round thereabouts. Though mostly I end up hanging out with other people who have kids around preschool age, or people who like to hang out with kids around preschool age, because you know, I has one. So fannish society is often not on my wavelength. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Whereabouts in the city will you be living?

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

The place where alinea is! Also some of my best buds from university.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Huh! Send alinea over to fill out my poll! :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I live south of the Loop. By, like, four hours. But I do drive up occasionally.

[carodee.livejournal.com]

I'm not on your flist but it's so great to know that other fans live in the same city. :-D I live a block away from the Thorndale Red Line.

Chicago is:

The best damned coastal city (complete with beaches) you could never imagine in the middle of a continent. Yay Chicago! \o/

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Howdy, neighbor! I live four blocks away from the Lawrence Red Line!

[allwhowander121.livejournal.com]

IT REALLY IS THAT WINDY.
Especially in the winter.
Actually its not that it's so very windy as much as the wind makes it SO MUCH COLDER in the winter.
And the lake effect is real. Seriously.

Great public transit as much as everyone complains about problems, still far better than most major cities.


But I love it.
So many free things to do, plus the city has a great soul.
And an AMAZING skyline.
AND FANTASTIC THEATRE.
I go a lot.



I so miss living downtown and I hate the traffic I currently have to put up with to commute to school every day and if I had the chance I'd move back into the city...

However I'm moving to warmer climes in June. Although I will miss the hell out of my city.

[allwhowander121.livejournal.com]

honestly I don't know how I got here actually...
this post I mean.

Chicago is...

[sarahenany.livejournal.com]

...one of the places i went to on my honeymoon in 1999 (with an alcoholic cheating now-ex-husband, but that's a story for a whole-nuther-time). He was on a summer program at the University and we made a honeymoon of it. (In retrospect, I should have got a clue when he said he'd have preferred to be alone so he could 'be himself'.) I fell in love with the elevated cars, went to a jazz club where a woman sang "I got 29 ways to get in through my baby's door/And if it gets real bad, I can probably think of two or three more." I can still remember the tune.

One of my most wonderful moments was going up to the top floor of the Sears Tower. We sat at a corner table and he had his magazine and I had mine, Laptop Buyers' Guide and Handbook which was a total THING for me at that time, and he had beer and I had tea and we just sat there forever in a pool of perfect peace.

At night, we walked over a bridge whose name I can't remember and looked at the city lights.

Wow, you brought back memories. Chicago. Yeah.