Will the McCaskeys sell the Bears?

[minnesotacubsfan]

The middle pic is how most people outside of the metro view Illinois.

 

And that small minority of people are wrong. People should work harder in school.

 

The "Chicago" in that middle pic incorporates some of the most rural places in the state.

I'm referring more to the "Central Illinois" part. I can't put Champaign in the same categories as Carbondale, for example. And Champaign isn't northern Illinois either.

 

But it's an abstract graphic, you can nitpick any of the borders

[minnesotacubsfan]

But honestly, you can't look at SF and think "that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen". Wrigley field, for example, looks like a horsefeathering circus tent from the exterior.

 

Wrigley Field, in its current form, looks great from the outside. What?

I dont hate it, but I also don't feel it's a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It's almost disappointing, save the Marquee

[CubinNY]

But honestly, you can't look at SF and think "that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen". Wrigley field, for example, looks like a horsefeathering circus tent from the exterior.

 

Wrigley Field, in its current form, looks great from the outside. What?

I dont hate it, but I also don't feel it's a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It's almost disappointing, save the Marquee

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, even if it's bad and the person is an archetect.

[WrigleyField 22]

Illinois/Chicago antecdote. My friend from Effingham area would tell people when she was studying abroad she was from IL, which automatically made them think Chicago (and then either Capone or MJ) . That annoyed her so she just started saying St. Louis.

 

So it's definitely a "know your crowd" scenario if you wanna give a roughly accurate description. Naperville and Aurora are probably big enough and known enough, for instance, to just start there rather than Chicago if that's where you live.

[WrigleyField 22]

The middle pic is how most people outside of the metro view Illinois.

 

And that small minority of people are wrong. People should work harder in school.

 

The "Chicago" in that middle pic incorporates some of the most rural places in the state.

I'm referring more to the "Central Illinois" part. I can't put Champaign in the same categories as Carbondale, for example. And Champaign isn't northern Illinois either.

 

But it's an abstract graphic, you can nitpick any of the borders

Every good Chicagoan knows that South of I-80 is Southern Illinois.

 

And South of 64 is Kentucky.

[jersey cubs fan]

 

Wrigley Field, in its current form, looks great from the outside. What?

I dont hate it, but I also don't feel it's a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It's almost disappointing, save the Marquee

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, even if it's bad and the person is an archetect.

I tend to agree that from the outside wrigley only looks good from maybe 2 angles.

 

Thankfully it isn't sitting in the middle of a parking lot though so you are forced to only see it up close and personal, where it doesn't look bad.

[Sammy Sofa]

Ok so this is a very "downstate" point of view, but it's sorta funny to me that there's any sort of quibble about whether the Bears play technically "in Chicago" or in some suburb. I get that they're different places, but the middle is very true to me....

 

People from the city of Chicago get upset when a person from the suburbs says they are from Chicago whether they're talking to a person from Illinois, New York or England. It's very goofy horsefeathers.

 

The city is the city though and Arlington Heights makes Evanston look like the Loop. That middle pic is pretty crazy.

The official Chicago Metropolitan area as defined by the census bureau

 

We need a stadium location version of this...

 

[WrigleyField 22]

 

People from the city of Chicago get upset when a person from the suburbs says they are from Chicago whether they're talking to a person from Illinois, New York or England. It's very goofy horsefeathers.

 

The city is the city though and Arlington Heights makes Evanston look like the Loop. That middle pic is pretty crazy.

The official Chicago Metropolitan area as defined by the census bureau

 

We need a stadium location version of this...

 

I like that each "side" of the debate also feels the other is the weird nerd part of the meme.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I'm confident I have met north of 250 people from Chicago in my lifetime. 4 are actually from Chicago.

[UMFan83]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

[WrigleyField 22]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

I mean sure, but also if you don't, okay. Nothing to be mad about.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

 

living on the west coast for 12 years, I learned awhile ago that it is FAR easier to tell people I am from "northern Illinois", but when the reply is "Chicago??" I say yes. the reason is it takes too much time and far too irrelevant to anything in my life to go into a long description of where I actually grew up.

 

I never have lived in the Chicago metro area. Seattle area, San Francisco area, LA/San Fernando valley, Minneapolis and Madison I have all called home, but never Chicago.

 

So, how infuriated would you all feel about that?

[WrigleyField 22]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

 

living on the west coast for 12 years, I learned awhile ago that it is FAR easier to tell people I am from "northern Illinois", but when the reply is "Chicago??" I say yes. the reason is it takes too much time and far too irrelevant to anything in my life to go into a long description of where I actually grew up.

 

I never have lived in the Chicago metro area. Seattle area, San Francisco area, LA/San Fernando valley, Minneapolis and Madison I have all called home, but never Chicago.

 

So, how infuriated would you all feel about that?

Do you still tell people you're FROM there? Or is that more of a response to where you're born?

[minnesotacubsfan]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

 

living on the west coast for 12 years, I learned awhile ago that it is FAR easier to tell people I am from "northern Illinois", but when the reply is "Chicago??" I say yes. the reason is it takes too much time and far too irrelevant to anything in my life to go into a long description of where I actually grew up.

 

I never have lived in the Chicago metro area. Seattle area, San Francisco area, LA/San Fernando valley, Minneapolis and Madison I have all called home, but never Chicago.

 

So, how infuriated would you all feel about that?

Do you still tell people you're FROM there? Or is that more of a response to where you're born?

 

 

"from, more or less". if they ask what neighborhood, I get into where I really am from. its too much meaningless talk, honestly, and only those from Chicago really press the question. everyone else just thinks Illinois is Chicago, and they have some vague understanding of corn fields.

[CoolHandLuke]

I say Winnebago and they get very confused.

[Sammy Sofa]

My entire life it never required an answer more complicated than, "I'm from just outside of Chicago." Now, granted, there's a really good chance that whatever poor sap I was talking to just didn't want to hear anything else coming out of my mouth, but I literally never came across anyone who was baffled by the concept of being from near Chicago, but not actually from inside the city limits or whatever the horsefeathers. It's not some kind of baffling code to crack.

 

Plus the horsefeathering nerds who get all huffy about someone not actually being "from Chicago" are definitely also hot dog Nazis.

[Tim]

I keep it simple when someone asks me where I'm from: "the Chicago area"

 

That seems both specific & vague enough. Only people from around here will care for any additional specifics. At which point I can tell them I grew up in Homewood, lived in Naperville for 10 years and currently live in BFE northwest of the city.

[WrigleyField 22]

My entire life it never required an answer more complicated than, "I'm from just outside of Chicago." Now, granted, there's a really good chance that whatever poor sap I was talking to just didn't want to hear anything else coming out of my mouth, but I literally never came across anyone who was baffled by the concept of being from near Chicago, but not actually from inside the city limits or whatever the horsefeathers. It's not some kind of baffling code to crack.

 

Plus the horsefeathering nerds who get all huffy about someone not actually being "from Chicago" are definitely also hot dog Nazis.

Its not baffling since I'm from the area, but it seems somewhat unique among Chicagoans. In college I met people from all across the Midwest and the norm was just to say what big city they were closest to without a "near" or "just outside" qualifier. Except us Chicagoans. The Shaker Heights, OH people just said "Cleveland" though.

[jersey cubs fan]

Whats wrong with just saying your from the Chicago area when you meet people? You arent saying you are from the actual city, and you don't have to confuse someone that lives in England by telling them you are from Des Plaines.

 

living on the west coast for 12 years, I learned awhile ago that it is FAR easier to tell people I am from "northern Illinois", but when the reply is "Chicago??" I say yes. the reason is it takes too much time and far too irrelevant to anything in my life to go into a long description of where I actually grew up.

 

I never have lived in the Chicago metro area. Seattle area, San Francisco area, LA/San Fernando valley, Minneapolis and Madison I have all called home, but never Chicago.

 

So, how infuriated would you all feel about that?

Do you still tell people you're FROM there? Or is that more of a response to where you're born?

I waited until I spent more than half my life (and had kids born) here before I’d say I’m from New Jersey. But that was only in a vacation or similar situation.

[minnesotacubsfan]

 

living on the west coast for 12 years, I learned awhile ago that it is FAR easier to tell people I am from "northern Illinois", but when the reply is "Chicago??" I say yes. the reason is it takes too much time and far too irrelevant to anything in my life to go into a long description of where I actually grew up.

 

I never have lived in the Chicago metro area. Seattle area, San Francisco area, LA/San Fernando valley, Minneapolis and Madison I have all called home, but never Chicago.

 

So, how infuriated would you all feel about that?

Do you still tell people you're FROM there? Or is that more of a response to where you're born?

I waited until I spent more than half my life (and had kids born) here before I’d say I’m from New Jersey. But that was only in a vacation or similar situation.

Yea, I guess I didn't understand exactly what Wrigley was asking, but puget sound in general has had such a huge influx of people not born and raised here that most people assume you weren't either. It's a rare day meeting someone who is from the area

[Soul]

My entire life it never required an answer more complicated than, "I'm from just outside of Chicago." Now, granted, there's a really good chance that whatever poor sap I was talking to just didn't want to hear anything else coming out of my mouth, but I literally never came across anyone who was baffled by the concept of being from near Chicago, but not actually from inside the city limits or whatever the horsefeathers. It's not some kind of baffling code to crack.

 

Plus the horsefeathering nerds who get all huffy about someone not actually being "from Chicago" are definitely also hot dog Nazis.

LOL I’ve never met anyone that weird about it. I guess I would roll with it:

 

I’m from just outside Chicago, not within the city limits.

 

…and yes I put ketchup on my hot dogs. Also mayo is way better with fries than ketchup.

[UMFan83]

My entire life it never required an answer more complicated than, "I'm from just outside of Chicago." Now, granted, there's a really good chance that whatever poor sap I was talking to just didn't want to hear anything else coming out of my mouth, but I literally never came across anyone who was baffled by the concept of being from near Chicago, but not actually from inside the city limits or whatever the horsefeathers. It's not some kind of baffling code to crack.

 

Plus the horsefeathering nerds who get all huffy about someone not actually being "from Chicago" are definitely also hot dog Nazis.

LOL I’ve never met anyone that weird about it. I guess I would roll with it:

 

I’m from just outside Chicago, not within the city limits.

 

…and yes I put ketchup on my hot dogs. Also mayo is way better with fries than ketchup.

 

Chicago is weird about this kind of stuff but I dunno maybe other cities are like this and I don’t know because I haven’t lived there

 

-worship deep dish pizza

-no ketchup on hot dogs

-don’t say you’re from Chicago if you don’t live in the city limits

-can’t like both the cubs and white sox

-dibs when it snows (I know other cities do this but Chicago seems fiercely protective over it)

-malort

[Old Style]

Chicagoans don’t worship deep dish pizza.

[UMFan83]

Chicagoans don’t worship deep dish pizza.

 

 

You’re right they don’t but they’ll defend it with their life if someone criticizes it. At least that’s been my experience. But we already have a pizza thread so

[WrigleyField 22]

Chicagoans don’t worship deep dish pizza.

 

 

You’re right they don’t but they’ll defend it with their life if someone criticizes it. At least that’s been my experience. But we already have a pizza thread so

Real Chicagoans defend tavern style. Deep Dish is for the suburbanites something something