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02-22-2009, 12:18 AM
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WHY isn't Chicago more high profile?
It seemed to be during the industrial/finance boom days, but nowadays even Miami has overtaken it. During the days of the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox earlier on it was firmly city number 3, but now it almost seems like any other big city, at least from an international perspective.
I personally think it's a really interesting city with a rich American heritage. The most American of the major cities, along with Philadelphia. I was actually hoping the Olympics would be held there in 2012, but not sure how that would go with the economy.
Last edited by Bowie; 02-22-2009 at 05:12 PM..
Reason: Moved from General US... single-city rule.
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02-22-2009, 01:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trimac20
It seemed to be during the industrial/finance boom days, but nowadays even Miami has overtaken it. During the days of the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox earlier on it was firmly city number 3, but now it almost seems like any other big city, at least from an international perspective.
I personally think it's a really interesting city with a rich American heritage. The most American of the major cities, along with Philadelphia. I was actually hoping the Olympics would be held there in 2012, but not sure how that would go with the economy.
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When I lived in Chicago, my neighbors were Russian, Italian, Israeli, Irish, English, Australian and northern Chinese. In my condo association, I was one of three born-and-raised Americans, and I was the only one from Chicago originally.
That was just the immediate vicinity, and that was pretty standard.
I don't understand this "Chicago is so American!" sentiment. Chicago is anything but American, if we are to judge American by the norms typically found in other cities. It's one of two or three places in this country where you can live without a car, live amongst first generation immigrants from all over the world and... well, live without a car in a massive urban center.
As for the lack of high-profile media scrutiny, no one really gets that in the United States. Miami is still the snowbird destination it's always been, no one really has a picture to ascribe to Chicago in their minds, and I don't see that changing in the near future. It's always been that way.
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02-22-2009, 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Trimac20
It seemed to be during the industrial/finance boom days, but nowadays even Miami has overtaken it. During the days of the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox earlier on it was firmly city number 3, but now it almost seems like any other big city, at least from an international perspective.
I personally think it's a really interesting city with a rich American heritage. The most American of the major cities, along with Philadelphia. I was actually hoping the Olympics would be held there in 2012, but not sure how that would go with the economy.
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The city hasn't been booming industrially or centered on it for over half a century, the olympics are in 2016, not 2012, and every bit of the city itself is doing MUCH better than when the Bulls were dominating. What did Miami take? The Sox won only a few years ago....
Have you ever actually been here?
Why start a thread if you can't be kinda factual in the initial post...
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02-22-2009, 12:58 PM
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well I believe Chicago is viewed as some what of a high profile city. Right now I'm attending school down south and many times when people here in the town will ask me where Im from and I tell them Chicago they say things like "OOh Chicago?" or "Wow! how is it there" or "Jerry Jerry Jerry!!" lol
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02-22-2009, 01:00 PM
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I actually thought the opposite. It's gotten more high profile than it was in the mid 90s and such.
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02-22-2009, 01:13 PM
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it seems to me as if Chicago was always in the forefront of big cities
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02-22-2009, 04:38 PM
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Because it's surrounded by cows.
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02-22-2009, 05:47 PM
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Chicago is more about keeping it under your hat; doing the job and knowing that the people that matter know.
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02-22-2009, 05:51 PM
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not enough TV shows set in Chicago
even NJ had the Sopranos
Chi-town deserves a TV show
All those prime time shows on the networks were cop shows in NYC, or Teen Drama in LA
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02-22-2009, 05:56 PM
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"...but nowadays even Miami has overtaken it."
Can you explain this statement, please? Or provide evidence to support it? Overtaken it how?
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