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  1. minnesotacubsfan
    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
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    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.
  3. 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?
  4. minnesotacubsfan
    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
  5. minnesotacubsfan
    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
  6. minnesotacubsfan
    The middle pic is how most people outside of the metro view Illinois. I grew up in the red part, for instance. The only thing I dislike about the Bears being in a 'burb is I will always think of them playing their games along the lakeshore. It sucks that there is no simple solution to stadium capacity or ingress/egress to the stadium. And I can't in good conscious advocate for a new freeway tail disrupting more of that neighborhood, which is what it would take.
  7. minnesotacubsfan
    The horsefeathers I can't. There is no possible way you can think that because at some point in your life, you must have looked into a mirror and gazed in horror!
  8. minnesotacubsfan
    I think it's rather funny how much misconception there is around the de-listing of Soldier Field. It wasn't delisted because it turned out "ugly", it was delisted because the designer, Lohan, took the conceptual route we in the industry call "facadism". Archibabble to be sure, and I probably lost you all 2 sentences ago, but when you gut a historic structure and leave the exterior, it is the most patronizing way to try and keep hold of the "historicism". It won several design awards. Not that they mean everything because we as a profession are extremely self rewarding. 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. Lucas Oil Field looks like it might house a blimp. The Raiders new stadium is just Darth Vader's helmet after it melted down on a very windy day. Stadiums are notoriously difficult to grasp in a single view because THEY'RE GINORMOUS AND, non of it is the Bears fault. The City hired the designers and construction company. But yea, sooooo Bears
  9. minnesotacubsfan
    If you told me we'd be up a game at the end of this series, I'd take it Cubs Win!
  10. minnesotacubsfan
    well, let's be honest, I can't even imagine thinking to myself "I own the Chicago Bears" to begin with, so....
  11. minnesotacubsfan
    javy javy javy
  12. minnesotacubsfan
    I just cant fathom thinking to myself "I don't want to be the owner of the Chicago Bears anymore"
  13. minnesotacubsfan
    I've secured an onsite CA role for the construction of the new Bears stadium, IF they build it and IF a certain firm wins the bid. - I'm mostly joking, but if it did happen and the pieces fell together, I will be there.
  14. minnesotacubsfan
    I'm pretty sure they lost that status after the renovation because of how poorly the renovation preserved those colonnades Edit: here an article about losing landmark status: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/644198/how-national-historic-landmarks-lose-nps-status IIRC during the remodel they did everything they could to incorporate the colonnades to maintain the landmark status. End result - a horsefeathers looking structure, so bad that it lost the status they tried so hard to maintain. Also - they ended up with the smallest stadium seat capacity in the NFL. They didnt do "everything they could", they gave it the ol' college try. And its not a bad look overall. that being said, now that the landmark status is gone, they can pretty much do anything they want with the building.
  15. minnesotacubsfan
    I've never purchased land let alone of this magnitude, but submitting a bid feels like more than posturing to me. it really depends on how much they bid and if it is a sealed bid. But right now, it is JUST a bid and not intent to buy, fwiu i'd love to see a new Bears stadium someplace. I happen to know an architect who specializes in nfl stadiums. might have to hit them up for a job :)
  16. minnesotacubsfan
    If they level the raceway and build a stadium, they will redesign and optimize the parking and the existing parking wont matter. the direct adjacency to hwy 53 would very likely mean traffic getting in and out will be muuch smoother then SF I do wonder if this is a chess move with the Chicago Parks district
  17. minnesotacubsfan
    Fields looks small to me for some reason. I know he isn't, he actually has decent height and good/great strength. Love seeing him in a Bears jersey though
  18. minnesotacubsfan
    And yes, we called the "durags". I hated that term because it felt like I was in a production of West Side Story or some horsefeathers, but not because I felt it wasn't for white people
  19. minnesotacubsfan
    I'm white and wore durags all the time when I worked construction. Lots of white people do. The only way I can read Brenlys comment is with undertones of racism.
  20. minnesotacubsfan
    :flythew:
  21. minnesotacubsfan
    yea, horsefeathers hosting super bowls. The NFL should just build a stadium in Honolulu for super bowls and be done with it
  22. minnesotacubsfan
    Yup. They also aren't the "neighborhood anchors" they always claim to be when they try to get public funding because they typically are empty shells w/few daily events year round. SF is in a good location for a stadium with the caveats being 1)traffic and 2) the park districts control
  23. minnesotacubsfan
    Oh really, why? I didn't know that NFL ownership guidelines require a controlling individual/entity. They don’t want the scrutiny of what a publicly traded company would necessitate. ah. Are they *presumably* selling because they are tired of running it or are they just broke? and if its the later, why couldn't they sell, say, 30% (or whatever maintains their leadership) in a public offering to bring in some money? Is that even possible?
  24. minnesotacubsfan
    Not sure if serious, but they can't do that. Oh really, why? I didn't know that
  25. minnesotacubsfan
    I wonder if the McCaskeys would consider an IPO?
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