Chicago, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

[Radical Activist]

I'm back in Chicago for the weekend. I love this town.
I love the 57th Street Bookstore and U of C Theological Seminary Book CO-OP combo.
I love the great pizza at places like Uno's and Medici's.
I love that there are endless things to do like great concerts and sports games.
I love that thousands of very beautiful, intelligent and unique women live here.
I love that its the Democratic and progressive capitol of the Midwest.
You just can't beat Chicago.

What do you love about Chicago?

[riderinthestorm]

1. Millenium Park

Excellent theatre
Second City
Grant Park
Rush Street
Navy Pier
Great architecture, sculpture and art
The Art Institute
Great schools with interesting lectures and guests (U of Chicago, Loyola, Depaul etc.)
The Joffrey Ballet
Lake Michigan frontage


As well as it's democratic and progressive citizens. Chicago rules!

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

2. The Shedd Aquarium

Great pizza
Wrigley Field
Wacker Drive
The Sears Tower Observatory
The lakefront

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Museum of Science and Industry...

The Newberry Library...
The Pullman Historic Foundation...
The old family home on N. Pittsburgh Avenue...
Family...
Lots of cool DUers to hang out with...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. MoSI is so fascinating!

:D :D

:hi:

[Blue-Jay]

4. I love that it's not filled with Bostonians.

:yoiks:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. Hey! Something wrong with Bostonians??

:P :P

I'm not one myself, but I'm from the NE.... I gotta defend our region's big city! 'Sides, I love Boston!

:D :D

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. Only the ones that diss Chicago...

on principle.

fsc

[alarcojon]

5. Born and raised

The cuisine of ALL varieties
Lake Shore Drive
Lake Michigan
Great shops of all types
The skyline
The architecture
and on and on and on.....

[never cry wolf]

6. LSD

The most beautiful stretch of urban road in the world.
The neighborhoods and diversity....
Bellow, Terkel, Royko....
Mies, Wright, Sullivan.... Olmstead....
16" softball....
The lakefront, what other city celebrates it's lakefront in such a way... The answer is NONE, they all put their industrial on the waterfront, we put our playground there...

Wish I could say Comiskey Park, the Stadium and Soldier Field but we still have Wrigley... (Hurts from a sox fan)

A world class city with a neighborhood feel....

the people

edited to add: The Art Institute. One of the best in the world impressionist collections with a shout out to the other museums.

[Blue-Jay]

7. Soldier Field is still there.

It looks like an alien spaceship crashed into it, though.

[never cry wolf]

8. Soldier Field is dead

I know that what they kept and built over they call Soldier Field. But that structure is not soldier field, which was not worth preserving anyway, imho. I would have preferred a brand new stadium, inside and out. It would have been cheaper and more efficient. Actually, the 20 year old proposal to do a domed stadium attaced to and in conjunction with McCormick place made the most sense.

I have no love for the old Soldier Field and have not been in the new one, I trust it does not smell of urine. But Chicago deserved better, IMHO.

[AngryAmish]

18. Inside Soldier Field is amazing

You can hear the collisions in the upper deck. There are enough restrooms. It does not smell like pee. You can see everything.

However, the outside is U.G.L.Y.

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. You must be in Hyde Park.

Great neighborhood.

I love the architecture.
I love the massive, mysterious body of fresh water that nourishes the city.
I love the river.
I love the winding lakefront path.
I love the Chicago hot dog, loaded with tomatoes, onions, relish, pickle, and mustard.
I love the endless opportunities to learn and make friends.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. 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.

[RetroLounge]

11. Best part of Chicago

It's only 90 miles away...

RL

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Greatest city in the world. Music scene is to die for.

Now if they could only do something about the weather.....

[Zomby Woof]

13. Always one of my favorites

L.A., Seattle, and Chicago are my top 3 U.S. cities. I always had a soft spot for the Cubs (got to see them play before they had lights), the unpretentious but spectacular architecture (which fits the character of the city), and the fact it spawned the great urban electric blues revival of the 50's and 60's.

It's not too progressive on Lakeshore Drive though. ;-) And the climate is horrible. But it's a great city - I would take it over NYC any day.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. The Sears Tower....

Awesome views! And the progressivism sure doesn't hurt!

Great city, Chicago.

:D

:hi:

[LSK]

19. da bulls

Oh yeah, their south side baseball team is pretty good too.

[flamingyouth]

20. Art Institute of Chicago

And the Chicago Historical Society. :thumbsup:

[terrya]

21. The Art Institute is one of my favorite places.

The Museum of Contemporary Art is also excellent...well, if you like that sort of thing. :-)

[flamingyouth]

22. I do, very much!

I haven't been back to Chicago for a few years but have fond memories.

I think Chicago has some of the most fascinating cemeteries in the US as well.

[Skittles]

23. I love everything about Chicago - it's my kind of town

although it has some bittersweet memories - I last saw both my dad and my brother at O'Hare Airport