I'm coming soon for school and I just wanna know what I'm getting myself into in everyone's humble opinions.

That was my dream..and now i'm here
Chicago is gorgeous!!

Chicago is great. I moved there in 2003 and just moved away a month ago. Best city in the US that I have lived in. It's a little hectic to park and use a car in general if you live in the city, but there are great record stores, concerts, etc. The people are diverse and friendly. Publci transportation is good. Not Crap.

rzs wrote: there are great record stores, concerts, etc. The people are diverse and friendly. Publci transportation is good. Not Crap.

I am going to have to point out that this statement describes a teeny tiny little fraction of this city.
If you stay in the white neighborhoods I can see where you'd think it was a diverse friendly place with good public transportation. I really can.

Marsupialized wrote:

rzs wrote: there are great record stores, concerts, etc. The people are diverse and friendly. Publci transportation is good. Not Crap.

I am going to have to point out that this statement describes a teeny tiny little fraction of this city.
If you stay in the white neighborhoods I can see where you'd think it was a diverse friendly place with good public transportation. I really can.

Well, either way I'm living in a White neighborhood and I get free public transport so I'm good to go

Chicago

Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. /
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. /
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. /
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: /
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. /
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; /
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, /
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, /
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, /
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, /
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, /
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of /
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog /
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with /
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.


--Carl Sandburg

There are other great cities, but none better. You can do anything here. You can get away with an awful lot as long as you carry your end of whatever, and you will never have to go anywhere else for anything again. It's all here.

By the way, Chicago is...


[1986 World Champion Chicago Bears
Steve Albini
Nelson Algren
Gwendolyn Brooks
Dick Butkus
Chess Records
Chicago Blues Festival (seeing John Lee Hooker when I was 19)
Drag City Records
Electrical Audio
Phil Everly
Freakwater (more or less)
Artis Gilmore
Ernest Hemingway
Howlin' Wolf
King Tut exhibit I saw as a kid at the Field Museum
that Korean BBQ place Steve took me to
Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
MC5 playing at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
seeing Nick Cave twice at The Metro in the mid-80's
Opart Thai Restaurant
Walter Payton
Gale Sayers
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
The Shadows of Knight
Touch and Go Records
Otis Wilson, who attended Louisville and wore my number: 55]


...is not crap!

steve wrote:you will never have to go anywhere else for anything again. It's all here.

Next time I am in town, please show me where the

-desert
-ocean
-hill

is.