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Chicago: A Great City?
January 30,2014 | Vanity

Posted on 01/30/2015 3:05:53 PM PST by yetidog

Is Chicago a great city? What makes it different?


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KEYWORDS: chicago; crime; culture
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To: yetidog
Chicago, A Great City?

Only Detroit is better!

61 posted on 01/30/2015 5:00:43 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: miss marmelstein

I disagree, I have lived there my whole life. I would never go anywhere in the city unprepared at night, it is best to avoid it. Ghetto rats lurk everywhere.


62 posted on 01/30/2015 5:20:05 PM PST by X-FID
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To: Borges

Chicago’s diversified economy: Political corruption, drug cartels, drug gangs, gambling, prostitution, police corruption, etc....... really diverse!


63 posted on 01/30/2015 5:26:16 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

The things i remember most about the Chicago area are toll booths.....EVERYWHERE, I am surprised that IL does not have a toll booth at the foot of every citizens driveway. Also there are so many billboards with half naked women advertising casinos EVERYWHERE.
Oh and that GIANT public housing complex on the side of the highway, the dumpy looking place looks to be the size of my entire town.


64 posted on 01/30/2015 6:01:27 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: yetidog

I lived near Chicago during college. I loved to visit. Still, it was miserable for me beyond belief in the winter and I moved to Florida as soon as I got my degree to Chicago. A girlfriend from college asked me to come back and move to Chicago, but I had already met and started dating a SoFlo Latina and said “No and hell no.” NOTHING could get me to intentionally live in that cold again.


65 posted on 01/30/2015 6:09:26 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: wardaddy

I grew up in a small city (pop. 60K) but when we got married, we moved out to the country.

When I was younger I couldn’t have imagined living in a rural area; now I can’t imagine living anywhere else.

There’s much to see and do in cities, no question...but just visiting is fine with me.


66 posted on 01/30/2015 6:21:18 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: COBOL2Java; Quigley

Say hi to Natalie for me.


67 posted on 01/30/2015 7:10:01 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: mowowie

They tore the Robert Taylor homes down.


68 posted on 01/30/2015 7:12:39 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: yetidog
And don't listen to the folks who think Chicago will be like Detroit someday. They've probably not spent much time in either.
/Chicago native, living in Detroit
69 posted on 01/30/2015 7:19:46 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: yetidog

Most of IL outside Cook County would like to sink Chicago, the CORRUPTION center of the state, in Lake Michigan. Chicago is a political whore for sale to the highest bidders. Chicago is the center of evil in IL.


70 posted on 01/30/2015 10:45:23 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: yetidog

I spend my time on more important questions, like “Is toe jam really jam?”


71 posted on 01/31/2015 4:06:49 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 1rudeboy

i was just reading on Wiki that In one weekend, more than 300 separate shooting incidents were reported in the vicinity of the Robert Taylor Homes.

Sounds like it was a great place to live....


72 posted on 01/31/2015 10:51:37 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: dglang

Pilsen and Little Village are no-go zones for non-Mexicans. VERY dangerous for non-Mexicans.


73 posted on 01/31/2015 5:01:55 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: MasterGunner01

Re: Your Post #70.

You are so right!


74 posted on 01/31/2015 5:07:26 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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