Because its my first post, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few reasons why I think Chicago is fantastic and set the stage for what's to come (for further background, since all of the other blog names with any iteration of "Chicago" in it were already taken, I paired my favorite song with "Chicago" to get the name... unoriginal? yeah, probably, but I became desperate after the first 32 names were taken).
Let's start with the fact that I've eaten at some of the best restaurants in the world without leaving the city limits, that Chicago has a global influence, but, when I travel abroad, we're only known for a 1920's gangster and a self-entitled musical that I still have not had the stomach to sit through, that we try to compensate for being one of the fattest cities by having one of the world's largest marathons (I promise that not one of my entries will ever discuss training regimes or marathon preparation, unless it refers to how much celery salt I like around the rim of my bloody mary while watching the race itself), and that this 5+ year old salt stain gets more flowers than my wife...
...I love it that the good guys have won two more world series than the other guys in the last 100 years, that sons can teach their fathers how things should've always been, that our football team has more hall of famers than your football team, and that two men actually made me love the NBA for a period of my life (I'm really trying to give it another shot Mr. Rose)...
We have a great lake (this isn't me, but it comes up when you Google Image Lake Michigan... thought it was funny), great music venues, great neighborhoods, great street festivals, and an incredible amount of great bars...
...I promise that this is just an introduction, and I won't be so link-happy going forward. But, I will include my local favorites: restaurants, bars, experiences, people, news ... peppered in with some not-so-favorites, some gripes about my condo association here and there, and alot of very random things that will probably be out of place. But, its my blog, not yours... here goes Tangled up in Chicago,
Cheers!
Well said. Looking forward to your future posts. I could use a dose of city realism.
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