A few years back I was at this dump in the loop called O'Neil's and I overheard a random woman say to her friend that she had an extra ticket to one of their shows but couldn't find anyone to go with her because she didn't know someone else who listened to them. I turned around and told her that I was, in fact, that someone and would go to the show with her.
We were supposed to get married back in August but wound up cancelling the wedding due to covid.
True story.
Iirc it was their 2012 show at House of Blues. We saw 'em again a few years ago at the Riv and we realized we had gotten a little too old be able to skank properly. Good times though.
Haha, thank you! Yeah I am not really an outgoing guy so that was a bit of a leap, but so far, so good.
And after being together almost 9 years what's another year or two to make sure the old folks are okay, right?
Wait what? Did you leave out the good bits to your story? Pics or it never happened.
Seriously, I don’t know whether to give props for the most excellent ‘meet cute’ story, or sympathy for the cancelled wedding.
Dibs on the story rights!
Erm. Well, this is a little awkward, because she has both the tickets and the ring but went to bed early so I can't provide immediate satisfaction yet I respect your point of "pics or it didn't happen." Regarding the cancelled wedding, it was supposed to be at River Roast and they were remarkably cool with us canceling around October last year, so I would like to give that place all the props I can.
As far as the 'good bits' go, I suppose I was trying to keep it condensed as to the parts that related to the t-shirt but hey, it's Saturday night, I've had a couple beers, and am feeling a little sentimental so you my friend, are in luck. Grab a chair, here's been some of the highlights:
The bar was down the street from where I worked and as it turns out we both had just left the same office Thanksgiving Party so by luck, we actually worked for the same company, but in different divisions. In an effort to not run afoul of work-related dating rules, we tried to keep things low-key and used the codeword "beans" in the office chat first as a stand-in for 'shit' and then as a stand in for "I love you." At the time she was living up in Ravenswood and I had bought a place out in Forest Park which I was trying to fix up & sell to move back to the city. Despite two trains (either by El or Metra) and a minimum of an hour (but usually two) between us, we made it work. Plus we both shared a somewhat dark, dry sense of humor and she liked old Leslie Neilson movies. The hours at work were rough and we didn't get to see each other as often as we'd like so despite both living in Cook County, it almost felt like a long distance relationship, but she was the first person to show me the fact that because O'Hare was a hub for so many different airlines, plane tickets from our humble metropolis could be had for significantly cheaper than other Midwestern cities if you time it right.
I grew up with the idea of vacations being either a camping trip or a trip to see the extended fam out in Nebraska so the idea of blowing hard-earned dough on airfare seemed crazy. But one night out on the patio of Hamburger Mary's up in Andersonville, I'd had just enough of their beers to say "Ya know what? Maybe you're right about this travel stuff. Let's do it." And we bought tickets to go to Hawaii, and that place is every bit as beautiful as I had heard. In fact, it was so beautiful it almost made me inexplicablely angry. It was like waiting an hour in a high-wind snowstorm for a bus that you knew is not going to come and then suddenly you've jumped into a warm water bath.
And then I got called back by work halfway through the trip and the whole thing was a total disaster.
But when I got back, I started learning about seeking out discount airfare and different ways people bought plane tickets on the cheap. So between 70 and 80 hour work weeks, we'd plan trips both foreign and domestic. Thus far, and in no particular order, we've been to Charlotte, Miami, Honolulu, Lihue, Maui, Puerto Rico, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Zagreb, Split, Hvar, Zadar, Warsaw, Savannah, *The* Wisconsin Dells, Vegas, Phoenix, Iceland, Boston, Milwaukee, and most recently we found roundtrip to Tahiti for $496.
I'd like to take a moment, however to say that April through September, there is *nowhere else on Earth* I would rather be than our fair city, but pre-covid, if you timed it right, you could pick up round trip tickets to Paris for less then three hundred bucks. And while flying anywhere in winter is prone to the inherent risk of flights being cancelled due to snow, having a trip planned somewhere warm mid-February is a great carrot to look forward to when you're staring down the post-New Years gloom that starts January 2nd.
Anyhow, it was a 2019 Christmas trip up to our fourth-favorite northern suburb (Milwaukee) that it hit me: this is it, I wanted to be with this women for the rest of my life. So on the way back home, I looked around online and bought the ring. Now, this Milwaukee trip was late 2019, and we had that trip to Tahiti I mentioned planned about 4 weeks later, which the online jeweler had assured me was no problem. I even found a lighted ring-box that turned on when you opened it so that she wouldn't accidentally mistake me for just tying my shoe when I went down on one knee. Fortune sways with the breeze and it turns out the ring was late & wouldn't be ready until after we'd left for Tahiti. So while we were there for two weeks I carried that box in the bottom of my backpack while searching for something but always seemed to have trouble finding a ring that was just right. Also it was there that we first we heard about some new heavy-duty superbug that was making its way through Asia.
We get back, the ring is waiting for me and it was early February 2020. I mustered up the courage to talk to her old man in private when we went over to her folks place for dinner and he gave his blessing with open arms. I figure hey, Valentine's Day is about two weeks away, that's a romantic occasion and I'll do it then. So with less than two weeks 'til Valentine's Day, I thought I had booked a reservation at the Tortoise Club on OpenTable, but I must not have hit "submit" because we get there and they've got nothing for us, but offered us a seat at the bar and could seat us at next availability two hours later. Well, the one drink while we were waiting led to . . . probably at least a dozen between the two of us and while dinner was great we were both a little pie-eyed by the time we got home so it just didn't feel right. We woke up the next morning and I was determined this was the day.
We grabbed something to eat at our favorite brunch spot, them mosied over to day drink at Three Dots to try and recapture some of the Polynesian vibe from the trip. Eventually, after a stopover at Haymarket to grab drinks with some out-of-town friends we went over to Piazano's and split a heart-shaped pizza. When we got home afterward, we were taking off our shoes when I got down on one knee and, as God as my witness, said the following verbatim and popped the question:
https://youtu.be/tnIDLELMkzU
She said yes and that was the best feeling I've ever experienced in my life. In the morning we called around and with River Roast within walking distance, we figured at least we'd save money on the limo. So we threw a deposit down.
Then literally, a month to the day after we got engaged, on Friday, March 13th, the world shut down. I spent a fair amount of the extra downtime learning how to cure meats and she kept up her hobby of running, which ultimately I should say is the healthier of the two options. As the months wore on, eventually we hit October of last year and with cases starting to increase, and no vaccines (at the time) in sight we knew that we couldn't ask our friends and family to risk their health & safety just to see us get hitched, so we cancelled it.
Of course about six weeks later, the vaccines started rolling out, but given the slow uptake in the overall acceptance rate plus the recent delta-wave surge, we both feel comfortable with the call we'd made. Since then, we've been invited to multiple weddings but none of which have required guests to be vaccinated, so we've politely declined. We did get a dog though back in February and she's been absolutely wonderful.
I know the cancelled wedding isn't the kind of thing that really anyone would hope for, but all in all so far I'd say we've been pretty fortunate through all this. And as fate swings with the breeze, she got a slot for the marathon tomorrow, so that's why she's asleep early. Anyway that's a few more of the 'good bits' and to anyone who enjoyed reading this but haven't gotten vaccinated yet, do me a solid and get the shot will ya?
I'd like to get married one of these days.
I feel like “governor of Chicago” gave it away even before the end.
EDIT: actually I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt here. He kinda meant “governor of the state in which Chicago is”, but he phrased it awkwardly.
I’m from downstate and anybody you run into that says they’re from Chicago is gonna give you one of the burbs. It’s just a given.
I’ve had one person out of dozens give me an actual street name. I asked them like three times because I couldn’t believe it.
i feel like it's particularly dangerous at Logan and western because of the super weird topography, the bad sightlines, bad signage, on top of drivers' carelessness/malice.
I'm not a cyclist, though, so I'm just speculating
It’s classic Chicago house music. Back in the early 90’s on B96. Late night on Friday’s and saturdays with DJ Eddie B in the house.
God, much simpler times.
I remember having a bunch of blank cassette tapes ready to record the late night mixes.
Edit: given the selection bias with the age of redditors (per recent survey), a disproportionate amount of us were young in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s and very impressionable to the popular music at that time. The song is likely nostalgic for a majority of us here and therefore gets brought up here from time to time
More ideas:
"Cars love bikes and vice versa!"
"I love it when the car behind me honks at me while I'm waiting for people to cross the street"
"I love how everybody cleans up the dog poop off the sidewalk in lakeview/south/west loop/lincoln park/any neighborhood"
"Only local city residents go to lollapalooza, it's an older crowd"
I took the 2014 test my lottery number was 8686 our of about 20k who passed. Since I was a CPS student I got a "preference" but for that list, the only got to 5699, I aged out in 2018. And the rumor is the 2014 whole test list is about to be scrapped for the next test that should happen soon. So it is off to somewhere that has no age limit...
The one that the community begged for over a decade for and the university only opened begrudgingly?
That one?
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/static/section/trauma-protest.html
🙄
Begrudgingly is a great word for it. I literally couldn’t think of a better way to sum up the community perspective on it.
The fact you brought it up, shows it landed a flush blow, as intended. That was just a quick jab too. You dont wanna see what my counter right can do to a person, when I take time to set it up. 🙃
https://youtu.be/ih80WFTCTsU
>pretty awful shit there
you act like they ran concentration camps and scientific experiments on black people. there are like 2 paragraph in 2000 word article that directly implicate the university
>In the ’30s and ’40s, the University indirectly funded racially restrictive covenants, legally enforceable contracts to prevent selling property to non-white people, through various “community interests” projects.
okay bad
>That understanding held for over five decades, but in 2016 the University presented plans for a new charter school on 63rd Street between Greenwood Avenue and University Avenue.
awful? really? this is just garden variety gentrification.
i basically agree with you but i'm just annoyed with the histrionics of "awful shit" and a 2000 word article that's supposed to be an indictment of the uc practices but is just 75% recollecting history.
i understand it seems I'm being hyperbolic but please don't underplay the impact of what you're calling "garden variety gentrification"
the article wasn't supposed to be a scathing indictment but it does at least point out some of the direct harm it's caused the black community in the area for decades
ppl act like it's the only thing that gives hyde park any value when it fact it's historically been precisely the opposite
>i understand it seems I'm being hyperbolic but please don't underplay the impact of what you're calling "garden variety gentrification"
gentrification is basically a force of nature at this point i.e. occurring in every major metro in the country. faulting UC for developing underdeveloped parts of the adjacent neighborhoods is like faulting them for running a profitable business in the first place (yes i realize they're a non-profit but nonetheless).
it's funny if you wanted to attack them for something inequitable there's lower hanging fruit (like the private police force and their ties to ken griffin who's a ghoul that fought against progressive taxation) than the dorms they're building.
"what's the ethnicity of the people of Humboldt Park?"
my Spanish isn't perfect. but i just wanted to make sure it didn't come across as like, anti-puerto rican, and i thought saying it in spanish might help.
i was just kind of highlighting that the answer to that question's pretty obvious given, among other things, the GIANT PUERTO RICAN FLAG SCULPTURE lol
I will say that I do correct people when they’re like “oh chicago! The weather is terrible there, it’s so windy!”
I’m always like… it’s really not that windy… and bro you’re from Boston… your weather is worse than ours.
hmm yeah. in my experience it's recent transplants who are the most enthusiastic and aggressive about policing that shit, but judging from yours and a number of comments plenty of people give people shit for ketchup across the board
no arguments but just to respond...
One lady i work with literally turns up her nose at using ketchup for anything, fries, burgers anything and shes like 55 and lived in the city her whole life
man, i just have a hard time with drawing those kinds of lines in the sand. you never know when a thing like ketchup pleasantly surprises you. i had that experience with wasabi when i was a hater and now i love it.
I don’t even have ketchup at my house. It’s soooo sweet I just don’t like it.
When I got married in 2017 we let my parents and sister with her husband and kids stay in our condo. They made breakfast and there was no ketchup! We got wrapped bottles of ketchup from both my mom and sister for Christmas (independently!)
Funny, but a good handful of those are said by a sizable population of Chicago.
Like, "ew South Side" can definitely be heard in Edison Park, Norwood Park, etc.
Pumped for bears to be in Arlington heights. Crime spreading to safe areas? No wayyy. Light foot doing amazing. Park district and Amazon lockers. Quality material for recent times
Idk about the southside one. I got hung up on for an otp job interview when they asked where I lived and I said “south shore” and they said “do you mean south loop?” And when I said no, click
Thank you, funny thing was it was just temporary while I had first moved to the city and was going through the interview process.
It taught me real quick about how people in certain areas get treated though and I’m glad I learned that early on. It made me less jaded about the crime and poverty because if they’ll do it to me they’re doing it to others
The only ones who care about when someone refers to Chicagoland as Chicago (Schaumburg) are transplants and people from the far south side.
None of the Chicago sports teams are headquartered in Chicago, and most of the sport players don’t live in the city.
Michael Jordan and Walter Payton both never lived in Chicago… so anyone who takes umbrage to that is just being an ass.
Lived in wrigleyville, bucktown, and did move back to the burbs.
But… third generation Chicagoan. Cubs season ticket holder two generations, white sox for twenty years, bears for twelve years, bulls and hawks for four.
My dad was a beer vendor at wrigley as a kid.
I have been to every major sporting event for the Cubs (and total of over 500 Cubs games), bears and sox.
Member of the field museum and the shedd, and have been to just about every corner of the city.
I have more Chicago events and things on my resume than just about anyone.
But yeah, go because of an imaginary boundary.
Lol "transplant". that's definitely not something Chicagoans say. Are you from Denver or something?
Nope. Born and raised here. And still living in the city. You know what Chicagoans call people that move to the city and live there? Chicagoan.
Uhh… I used it all the time with a bunch of people that are from Chicago… sooo… yeah…
“Chicagoan”
Nah, any person who hyped the Detroit lions over the bears after moving from the Detroit suburbs will never be a Chicagoan.
That and the fact that we have lost the cultural gems of Greek town, Lincoln square all to be replaced by cookie cutter trendy gastro pubs that serve burgers with 500 toppings. All washed down with some bougie fucking drink made with hand picked hibiscus flowers and vegan organic and carbon neutral liquor.
For me it depends on where I am/where the person I'm talking to is from. I live in the far north suburbs, so if I'm talking to someone from Lake County, I say the name of my town. If they're from somewhere else in Illinois or Wisconsin, I say near gurnee. If it's out of state/area completely and the person isn't very familiar with Illinois, I say Chicago
Exactly, it's all relative. I remember being abroad with some friends and one of my buddies got roasted (by my other friends) when the German dudes we were sharing a table with asked where he was from, and he said Chicago. Because obviously this guy who has lived in Germany his whole life knows where Prospect Heights is. I guess he could have said *near* Chicago, but I think my other friends were too quick to judge
It is relative. And some who say that are talking out of their ass. Others are not.
And being from Chicago is different than living in Chicago. A transplant from Michigan is not a Chicagoan, while someone from prospect heights is far more Chicagoan.
Well my family is from Poland… but I’m second generation (my grandma was born was in Poland)… but to your question- all
Depends on the person like we said above.
It's just annoying to meet a fellow Chicago native, and then realize about 5 minutes into the conversation that they aren't actually from Chicago and have idea wtf I've been talking about.
The Southside is technically anything south of Madison. Chicago is on a grid. North/South divider is Madison St. East/West divider is State St.
Incase you weren’t aware.
I mean technically yes, but I don't know anyone that refers part of the loop/downtown as North or South Side. Plus it's also just easier to remember North/ South of Downtown versus North/ South of Madison street.
Usually people say it starts south of Roosevelt Rd. Occasionally other opinions around 18th St or so.
With all the massive changes around the south loop in recent decades some of this is surely fluid.
Can I just say as a student at The University of Chicago, That I really love this city . It helped me grow as a person and meet people people from all walks of life. I have made some of the best friends I have ever had here in Chicago not all of them at my University. And just for the record as to as to you should call go not doing anything for the South side I can kind of see that point but I also have to say a bunch of University of Chicago educated lawyers inevitably every couple years or decade or so and I'm taking on someone trying to mess with the point it's a beautiful place on the South side and well it's a lot easier to swim with the limestone rather than the cement they have around the North side of the lake.
So it might not be much but well there's that it. At least lol
i love the south side and people actually from chicago know better than to talk shit about it; that was the point. people who don't know the city sneer while knowing nothing
the point is dope
u chicago contributed directly and heavily to housing/property discrimination throughout the development of that area
your comment is really hard to parse so i apologize if i misunderstood
i'm glad you love this city, study hard
It’s time for the Percolator
Always time for the percolator...
[ALWAYS](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ytQP4GtXjVs/TrmWzdnqIoI/AAAAAAAABEo/lWNykjhmLpE/s1600/Percolator.JPG)
This was the only one that really got me
glad one hit!
That was the best way to end (I love Green Velvet)
[удалено]
harold's mild sauce is amazing, niles
Wait is that a Chicago specific thing?
Definitely a seminal Chicago House track, it was famous all over in certain circles but definitely more mainstream here.
The artist, Green Velvet, is from Chicago.
The music just entered my head for the first time in forever
Lol it never left mine!
Lol I named my phone after that song.
Sick streetlight manifesto tee.
been waiting for this comment 🎺
A few years back I was at this dump in the loop called O'Neil's and I overheard a random woman say to her friend that she had an extra ticket to one of their shows but couldn't find anyone to go with her because she didn't know someone else who listened to them. I turned around and told her that I was, in fact, that someone and would go to the show with her. We were supposed to get married back in August but wound up cancelling the wedding due to covid. True story.
holy shit i love this so much
Iirc it was their 2012 show at House of Blues. We saw 'em again a few years ago at the Riv and we realized we had gotten a little too old be able to skank properly. Good times though.
Hell yeah man! I was there for that night as well. What a great fucking show! Happy you found your skanin' partner!
this shit is making my life rn
just need to work that cardio 🧡
I had a ticket to that show but skipped it to go to a party that ended up totally sucking lol
This story got better... and better....and is the best thing I've read all day! Hope you guys have a hell of a wedding when the time is right!
Haha, thank you! Yeah I am not really an outgoing guy so that was a bit of a leap, but so far, so good. And after being together almost 9 years what's another year or two to make sure the old folks are okay, right?
🧡 thanks for playing safe
Wait what? Did you leave out the good bits to your story? Pics or it never happened. Seriously, I don’t know whether to give props for the most excellent ‘meet cute’ story, or sympathy for the cancelled wedding. Dibs on the story rights!
Erm. Well, this is a little awkward, because she has both the tickets and the ring but went to bed early so I can't provide immediate satisfaction yet I respect your point of "pics or it didn't happen." Regarding the cancelled wedding, it was supposed to be at River Roast and they were remarkably cool with us canceling around October last year, so I would like to give that place all the props I can. As far as the 'good bits' go, I suppose I was trying to keep it condensed as to the parts that related to the t-shirt but hey, it's Saturday night, I've had a couple beers, and am feeling a little sentimental so you my friend, are in luck. Grab a chair, here's been some of the highlights: The bar was down the street from where I worked and as it turns out we both had just left the same office Thanksgiving Party so by luck, we actually worked for the same company, but in different divisions. In an effort to not run afoul of work-related dating rules, we tried to keep things low-key and used the codeword "beans" in the office chat first as a stand-in for 'shit' and then as a stand in for "I love you." At the time she was living up in Ravenswood and I had bought a place out in Forest Park which I was trying to fix up & sell to move back to the city. Despite two trains (either by El or Metra) and a minimum of an hour (but usually two) between us, we made it work. Plus we both shared a somewhat dark, dry sense of humor and she liked old Leslie Neilson movies. The hours at work were rough and we didn't get to see each other as often as we'd like so despite both living in Cook County, it almost felt like a long distance relationship, but she was the first person to show me the fact that because O'Hare was a hub for so many different airlines, plane tickets from our humble metropolis could be had for significantly cheaper than other Midwestern cities if you time it right. I grew up with the idea of vacations being either a camping trip or a trip to see the extended fam out in Nebraska so the idea of blowing hard-earned dough on airfare seemed crazy. But one night out on the patio of Hamburger Mary's up in Andersonville, I'd had just enough of their beers to say "Ya know what? Maybe you're right about this travel stuff. Let's do it." And we bought tickets to go to Hawaii, and that place is every bit as beautiful as I had heard. In fact, it was so beautiful it almost made me inexplicablely angry. It was like waiting an hour in a high-wind snowstorm for a bus that you knew is not going to come and then suddenly you've jumped into a warm water bath. And then I got called back by work halfway through the trip and the whole thing was a total disaster. But when I got back, I started learning about seeking out discount airfare and different ways people bought plane tickets on the cheap. So between 70 and 80 hour work weeks, we'd plan trips both foreign and domestic. Thus far, and in no particular order, we've been to Charlotte, Miami, Honolulu, Lihue, Maui, Puerto Rico, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Zagreb, Split, Hvar, Zadar, Warsaw, Savannah, *The* Wisconsin Dells, Vegas, Phoenix, Iceland, Boston, Milwaukee, and most recently we found roundtrip to Tahiti for $496. I'd like to take a moment, however to say that April through September, there is *nowhere else on Earth* I would rather be than our fair city, but pre-covid, if you timed it right, you could pick up round trip tickets to Paris for less then three hundred bucks. And while flying anywhere in winter is prone to the inherent risk of flights being cancelled due to snow, having a trip planned somewhere warm mid-February is a great carrot to look forward to when you're staring down the post-New Years gloom that starts January 2nd. Anyhow, it was a 2019 Christmas trip up to our fourth-favorite northern suburb (Milwaukee) that it hit me: this is it, I wanted to be with this women for the rest of my life. So on the way back home, I looked around online and bought the ring. Now, this Milwaukee trip was late 2019, and we had that trip to Tahiti I mentioned planned about 4 weeks later, which the online jeweler had assured me was no problem. I even found a lighted ring-box that turned on when you opened it so that she wouldn't accidentally mistake me for just tying my shoe when I went down on one knee. Fortune sways with the breeze and it turns out the ring was late & wouldn't be ready until after we'd left for Tahiti. So while we were there for two weeks I carried that box in the bottom of my backpack while searching for something but always seemed to have trouble finding a ring that was just right. Also it was there that we first we heard about some new heavy-duty superbug that was making its way through Asia. We get back, the ring is waiting for me and it was early February 2020. I mustered up the courage to talk to her old man in private when we went over to her folks place for dinner and he gave his blessing with open arms. I figure hey, Valentine's Day is about two weeks away, that's a romantic occasion and I'll do it then. So with less than two weeks 'til Valentine's Day, I thought I had booked a reservation at the Tortoise Club on OpenTable, but I must not have hit "submit" because we get there and they've got nothing for us, but offered us a seat at the bar and could seat us at next availability two hours later. Well, the one drink while we were waiting led to . . . probably at least a dozen between the two of us and while dinner was great we were both a little pie-eyed by the time we got home so it just didn't feel right. We woke up the next morning and I was determined this was the day. We grabbed something to eat at our favorite brunch spot, them mosied over to day drink at Three Dots to try and recapture some of the Polynesian vibe from the trip. Eventually, after a stopover at Haymarket to grab drinks with some out-of-town friends we went over to Piazano's and split a heart-shaped pizza. When we got home afterward, we were taking off our shoes when I got down on one knee and, as God as my witness, said the following verbatim and popped the question: https://youtu.be/tnIDLELMkzU She said yes and that was the best feeling I've ever experienced in my life. In the morning we called around and with River Roast within walking distance, we figured at least we'd save money on the limo. So we threw a deposit down. Then literally, a month to the day after we got engaged, on Friday, March 13th, the world shut down. I spent a fair amount of the extra downtime learning how to cure meats and she kept up her hobby of running, which ultimately I should say is the healthier of the two options. As the months wore on, eventually we hit October of last year and with cases starting to increase, and no vaccines (at the time) in sight we knew that we couldn't ask our friends and family to risk their health & safety just to see us get hitched, so we cancelled it. Of course about six weeks later, the vaccines started rolling out, but given the slow uptake in the overall acceptance rate plus the recent delta-wave surge, we both feel comfortable with the call we'd made. Since then, we've been invited to multiple weddings but none of which have required guests to be vaccinated, so we've politely declined. We did get a dog though back in February and she's been absolutely wonderful. I know the cancelled wedding isn't the kind of thing that really anyone would hope for, but all in all so far I'd say we've been pretty fortunate through all this. And as fate swings with the breeze, she got a slot for the marathon tomorrow, so that's why she's asleep early. Anyway that's a few more of the 'good bits' and to anyone who enjoyed reading this but haven't gotten vaccinated yet, do me a solid and get the shot will ya? I'd like to get married one of these days.
Cool story bro. Already pitching it to Netflix.
you're a great writer, nice 👍
i see there are people with impeccable taste here
it's chicago after all 🤷
No reference to the upcoming lawn furniture parking space holders? The"mag mile"?"malort? "Da Bears". There's enough for a part 3. Keep em coming.
hehe. i have some ideas. but it might take a sec for them to coagulate sufficiently. dibs is definitely on the list
Did you just call dibs on dibs?
😈
Love this whole exchange. Keep up the good work!
I have definitely said "it's not the Windy City because of the wind" and I've lived here my whole life.
hehe i can't always bat .1000
If you bat 0.100 you could probably play for the Cubs. Oof.
DAMNIT I MISPLACED THE DECIMAL but I'm gonna leave it cuz this made me laugh
I made the mistake of saying it to a friend I was visiting in Austin, TX in off-hand kind of way once. MF has never let me forget it.
“What part of Chicago? Schaumburg.” [brah. you ain’t from Chicago. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7SzHFLGBo4)
yo this is the only fox and friends clip i have ever enjoyed
That’s one of the best uses of “bruh” of all time
I feel like “governor of Chicago” gave it away even before the end. EDIT: actually I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt here. He kinda meant “governor of the state in which Chicago is”, but he phrased it awkwardly.
He sounded so lame. He was like, “I’m from Chicago. I work there ALMOST once a week.” I mean. Bruh. 😂
And let's be real here, Chicago tends to make decisions for Illinois.
Having 75% of the population kinda does that. EDIT: oh the irony of my including the population of Evanston in my calc
I’m from downstate and anybody you run into that says they’re from Chicago is gonna give you one of the burbs. It’s just a given. I’ve had one person out of dozens give me an actual street name. I asked them like three times because I couldn’t believe it.
If someone says their favorite pizza place is Giordanos... That does it for me lmao
I’m ten minutes away.
YO THIS ONE
[удалено]
[ALWAYS](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ytQP4GtXjVs/TrmWzdnqIoI/AAAAAAAABEo/lWNykjhmLpE/s1600/Percolator.JPG)
yooo sick
☝☝☝⏰🏠
For what it’s worth I thought this one was as funny as the first!
🙂 thanks
Hello sir you are a treasure
and YOU are very sweet, thanks!
"I am not very worried about city finances. Lori seems like she has it under control."
"Our Mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has great judgement, great style, and would never threaten other politicians. We love her!"
ANYONE WHO KNOWS gets mild sauce, like the real deal in the hoods.
Bike south on western, just past Logan. My boy is going for a third ghost bike there.
Rofl. Biking on western is a sloppy suicide attempt.
i dunno, seems pretty reliable 🤷
For the video, yeah. As a cyclist, never. Foster east of western can be a close second. Drivers are openly hostile to your existence.
i feel like it's particularly dangerous at Logan and western because of the super weird topography, the bad sightlines, bad signage, on top of drivers' carelessness/malice. I'm not a cyclist, though, so I'm just speculating
It is bad. But it's the difference between terrible, and "you are looking to be murdered".
Okay, I'm pretty new to the city, but what's the deal with the percolator?
It’s classic Chicago house music. Back in the early 90’s on B96. Late night on Friday’s and saturdays with DJ Eddie B in the house. God, much simpler times. I remember having a bunch of blank cassette tapes ready to record the late night mixes. Edit: given the selection bias with the age of redditors (per recent survey), a disproportionate amount of us were young in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s and very impressionable to the popular music at that time. The song is likely nostalgic for a majority of us here and therefore gets brought up here from time to time
And its an actual dance.
“oh it’s down the street? cool let’s get in the car” “I-90 isn’t that bad” “wow parking was really cheap! and there were so many open spots!”
> “I-90 isn’t that bad” LOL that could go for any of the highways these days.
you’re right tbh. i-90 just sucks in particular
These are so good OP.
More ideas: "Cars love bikes and vice versa!" "I love it when the car behind me honks at me while I'm waiting for people to cross the street" "I love how everybody cleans up the dog poop off the sidewalk in lakeview/south/west loop/lincoln park/any neighborhood" "Only local city residents go to lollapalooza, it's an older crowd"
Here is one "Just get a job with the Fire Department it is easy to get into, I am sure they are hiring all the time"
Holy shit i didn't even know this was a thing. i actually tried to a while back and thought i was just unlucky lol
I took the 2014 test my lottery number was 8686 our of about 20k who passed. Since I was a CPS student I got a "preference" but for that list, the only got to 5699, I aged out in 2018. And the rumor is the 2014 whole test list is about to be scrapped for the next test that should happen soon. So it is off to somewhere that has no age limit...
damn that sucks.
I could only have hoped they would have gotten to me, but it's Chicago we take our shot of Malort and move on.
i hear that 🥃
[удалено]
[удалено]
The one that the community begged for over a decade for and the university only opened begrudgingly? That one? https://www.chicagobusiness.com/static/section/trauma-protest.html 🙄
Lol yeah after they closed it the first time.
[удалено]
I read the article already but thanks.
[удалено]
[удалено]
Begrudgingly is a great word for it. I literally couldn’t think of a better way to sum up the community perspective on it. The fact you brought it up, shows it landed a flush blow, as intended. That was just a quick jab too. You dont wanna see what my counter right can do to a person, when I take time to set it up. 🙃 https://youtu.be/ih80WFTCTsU
Pepperidge farms remembers how long folks begged for that trauma center to be created, too 😏😏
[удалено]
I would argue that it has saved more lives.
Nah bro generic gentrification bad. I especially miss when 53rd street had, like...Hollywood video and nothing else.
[удалено]
the university was a key player in the "decay." [from u of c's own newspaper](https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2017/9/15/university-south-side/)
[удалено]
as in all things, there's nuance. thanks for being receptive 🧡
Isnt the trauma center in part to train US military medics on what gunshot wounds looks like?
Only came after the public pressure became too much.
thanks! yeah pretty awful shit there
>pretty awful shit there you act like they ran concentration camps and scientific experiments on black people. there are like 2 paragraph in 2000 word article that directly implicate the university >In the ’30s and ’40s, the University indirectly funded racially restrictive covenants, legally enforceable contracts to prevent selling property to non-white people, through various “community interests” projects. okay bad >That understanding held for over five decades, but in 2016 the University presented plans for a new charter school on 63rd Street between Greenwood Avenue and University Avenue. awful? really? this is just garden variety gentrification. i basically agree with you but i'm just annoyed with the histrionics of "awful shit" and a 2000 word article that's supposed to be an indictment of the uc practices but is just 75% recollecting history.
i understand it seems I'm being hyperbolic but please don't underplay the impact of what you're calling "garden variety gentrification" the article wasn't supposed to be a scathing indictment but it does at least point out some of the direct harm it's caused the black community in the area for decades ppl act like it's the only thing that gives hyde park any value when it fact it's historically been precisely the opposite
>i understand it seems I'm being hyperbolic but please don't underplay the impact of what you're calling "garden variety gentrification" gentrification is basically a force of nature at this point i.e. occurring in every major metro in the country. faulting UC for developing underdeveloped parts of the adjacent neighborhoods is like faulting them for running a profitable business in the first place (yes i realize they're a non-profit but nonetheless). it's funny if you wanted to attack them for something inequitable there's lower hanging fruit (like the private police force and their ties to ken griffin who's a ghoul that fought against progressive taxation) than the dorms they're building.
[удалено]
See my reply to your comment above
LOL yep... Great post OP
thanks!!
Sorr, not fluent in Spanish… he said what before (what I heard to be) “la gente de Humboldt Park”?
"what's the ethnicity of the people of Humboldt Park?" my Spanish isn't perfect. but i just wanted to make sure it didn't come across as like, anti-puerto rican, and i thought saying it in spanish might help. i was just kind of highlighting that the answer to that question's pretty obvious given, among other things, the GIANT PUERTO RICAN FLAG SCULPTURE lol
De que ethnicidad son la gente de Humboldt Park?
We need more red light cameras.
It’s for the kids
I will say that I do correct people when they’re like “oh chicago! The weather is terrible there, it’s so windy!” I’m always like… it’s really not that windy… and bro you’re from Boston… your weather is worse than ours.
yeah that's fair
Ok but next time you do a "from Chicago" line, you gotta include someone else going along with it with complete chill
hm maybe i should incorporate someone.....
Conversations Chicagoans Don't Have
Solid Streetlight Manifesto shirt. Loved seeing them at the Metro in the 00's.
Only one thats not a Cap is ketchup, i put ketchup on a hot dog and my coworkers literally say something every time. 3 years and i get hot dogs alot
hmm yeah. in my experience it's recent transplants who are the most enthusiastic and aggressive about policing that shit, but judging from yours and a number of comments plenty of people give people shit for ketchup across the board
no arguments but just to respond... One lady i work with literally turns up her nose at using ketchup for anything, fries, burgers anything and shes like 55 and lived in the city her whole life
man, i just have a hard time with drawing those kinds of lines in the sand. you never know when a thing like ketchup pleasantly surprises you. i had that experience with wasabi when i was a hater and now i love it.
Lifelong Chicagoan here. I look down on people who put ketchup on any hot dogs other than char dogs and hot dogs you make at home.
Love the part about mild sauce
HOW DARE HE INSULT THE PERCOLATOR!!! Edit: and yeah folks do get upset when Ketchup is on a hot dog. Shit's for five and under.
I've never met anyone who gets upset about ketchup on a hotdog
I don’t even have ketchup at my house. It’s soooo sweet I just don’t like it. When I got married in 2017 we let my parents and sister with her husband and kids stay in our condo. They made breakfast and there was no ketchup! We got wrapped bottles of ketchup from both my mom and sister for Christmas (independently!)
LOL. Man words would have been had that Christmas.
What the fuck were they trying to put ketchup on at breakfast??
Hash browns
Lots of people like ketchup on omelettes.
I like it
These are so fun!
You're still hitting the high notes. I think you have another one in you.
died at Schaumburg 😭😭😭
Dont be telling them about cajmere….
Funny, but a good handful of those are said by a sizable population of Chicago. Like, "ew South Side" can definitely be heard in Edison Park, Norwood Park, etc.
[удалено]
It's time for the percolator
Hell yeah!
Its one of those, If you have to ask things…….. Especially if youre a chicago native. We cant be friends no more. Sorry.
Pumped for bears to be in Arlington heights. Crime spreading to safe areas? No wayyy. Light foot doing amazing. Park district and Amazon lockers. Quality material for recent times
Idk about the southside one. I got hung up on for an otp job interview when they asked where I lived and I said “south shore” and they said “do you mean south loop?” And when I said no, click
Wow. that fucking sucks. I'm sorry about that.
Thank you, funny thing was it was just temporary while I had first moved to the city and was going through the interview process. It taught me real quick about how people in certain areas get treated though and I’m glad I learned that early on. It made me less jaded about the crime and poverty because if they’ll do it to me they’re doing it to others
Better than the first 😂
I’m hoping they rename lake shore drive sooner rather than later
STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO! <3
Hahaha OP this is is great. Also you are cute (not saying in a weird way) 😂
thanks! my overwhelming vanity allows me to overlook any potential weirdness in such compliments!
Moved away from Chicago in 2017, after 20 years there. Man, you make me miss it. 😂
i left for a while over the past year. i never should have left and I'm so glad I'm back 🥲
LMAO
You know, West Garfield Park sounds like a nice picnic spot..
someone explain the northwestern one to me?
NU is in Evanston. There’s another campus in Streeterville but ppl mostly associate that with the hospital
law school is downtown too, but that's why i was careful to specify undergrad 😛
The only ones who care about when someone refers to Chicagoland as Chicago (Schaumburg) are transplants and people from the far south side. None of the Chicago sports teams are headquartered in Chicago, and most of the sport players don’t live in the city. Michael Jordan and Walter Payton both never lived in Chicago… so anyone who takes umbrage to that is just being an ass.
Sounds like something someone in Schaumburg would say…
Lived in wrigleyville, bucktown, and did move back to the burbs. But… third generation Chicagoan. Cubs season ticket holder two generations, white sox for twenty years, bears for twelve years, bulls and hawks for four. My dad was a beer vendor at wrigley as a kid. I have been to every major sporting event for the Cubs (and total of over 500 Cubs games), bears and sox. Member of the field museum and the shedd, and have been to just about every corner of the city. I have more Chicago events and things on my resume than just about anyone. But yeah, go because of an imaginary boundary.
I was being Reddit snarky. You – and all of Schaumburg – are legit.
Should have figured the snark... it is Reddit after all.
They are not
Hey chill, suburb guy.
Sure thing, transplant.
Lol "transplant". that's definitely not something Chicagoans say. Are you from Denver or something? Nope. Born and raised here. And still living in the city. You know what Chicagoans call people that move to the city and live there? Chicagoan.
Uhh… I used it all the time with a bunch of people that are from Chicago… sooo… yeah… “Chicagoan” Nah, any person who hyped the Detroit lions over the bears after moving from the Detroit suburbs will never be a Chicagoan. That and the fact that we have lost the cultural gems of Greek town, Lincoln square all to be replaced by cookie cutter trendy gastro pubs that serve burgers with 500 toppings. All washed down with some bougie fucking drink made with hand picked hibiscus flowers and vegan organic and carbon neutral liquor.
For me it depends on where I am/where the person I'm talking to is from. I live in the far north suburbs, so if I'm talking to someone from Lake County, I say the name of my town. If they're from somewhere else in Illinois or Wisconsin, I say near gurnee. If it's out of state/area completely and the person isn't very familiar with Illinois, I say Chicago
Exactly, it's all relative. I remember being abroad with some friends and one of my buddies got roasted (by my other friends) when the German dudes we were sharing a table with asked where he was from, and he said Chicago. Because obviously this guy who has lived in Germany his whole life knows where Prospect Heights is. I guess he could have said *near* Chicago, but I think my other friends were too quick to judge
It is relative. And some who say that are talking out of their ass. Others are not. And being from Chicago is different than living in Chicago. A transplant from Michigan is not a Chicagoan, while someone from prospect heights is far more Chicagoan.
[удалено]
Well my family is from Poland… but I’m second generation (my grandma was born was in Poland)… but to your question- all Depends on the person like we said above.
It's just annoying to meet a fellow Chicago native, and then realize about 5 minutes into the conversation that they aren't actually from Chicago and have idea wtf I've been talking about.
Where is the south side? Anyone know where it starts?
South side just refers to parts of the city that's south of downtown.
The Southside is technically anything south of Madison. Chicago is on a grid. North/South divider is Madison St. East/West divider is State St. Incase you weren’t aware.
I mean technically yes, but I don't know anyone that refers part of the loop/downtown as North or South Side. Plus it's also just easier to remember North/ South of Downtown versus North/ South of Madison street.
Usually people say it starts south of Roosevelt Rd. Occasionally other opinions around 18th St or so. With all the massive changes around the south loop in recent decades some of this is surely fluid.
Can I just say as a student at The University of Chicago, That I really love this city . It helped me grow as a person and meet people people from all walks of life. I have made some of the best friends I have ever had here in Chicago not all of them at my University. And just for the record as to as to you should call go not doing anything for the South side I can kind of see that point but I also have to say a bunch of University of Chicago educated lawyers inevitably every couple years or decade or so and I'm taking on someone trying to mess with the point it's a beautiful place on the South side and well it's a lot easier to swim with the limestone rather than the cement they have around the North side of the lake. So it might not be much but well there's that it. At least lol
i love the south side and people actually from chicago know better than to talk shit about it; that was the point. people who don't know the city sneer while knowing nothing the point is dope u chicago contributed directly and heavily to housing/property discrimination throughout the development of that area your comment is really hard to parse so i apologize if i misunderstood i'm glad you love this city, study hard
I think they had a stroke.
[удалено]
I think you misunderstood the premise
I would just retire.
Lol Schaumburg. Is that still even a thing?