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Looks like Chicago will lose its one claim to fame!
Throughout this thread, Chicago boosters have been bragging about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as if it's this great thing!
Well, looks like they want to move to New York! I guess they've outgrown Chi-town, and are ready for the big time:
The CME acquired the New York Mercantile Exchange last year, opening up the possibility of a move to New York, says a CME spokeswoman.
Companies occasionally threaten a headquarters move as a negotiating ploy, but Mr. Fioretti says it’s a real possibility in the CME’s case. A CME spokeswoman says the exchange is “committed to Chicago,” but relocating to New York is “always an option.”
Source- Pace Bus annual reports Not acceptable, where do they get this data from? They're not even primarily concerned with Chicago.
Source- Pace Bus annual reports Not acceptable again. Are you serious? lmao
Source- Pace Bus annual reports (most population loss of any city) So you're comparing data from two different sources (one not even being the U.S. census) to make a conclusion.
Source- Chicago Tribune Because the newspaper says it, it makes it so. Really intelligent. And what does murder capital mean?
Source- It's in the heart of the South Side, the most violent part of the country's most violent city. So you have no real data, you're just making conjectures.
And the South Side is the largest black neighborhood in the country. Once again, this is pointless, and the South Side is not even the largest, Northern and Eastern Brooklyn is.
Looks like Chicago will lose its one claim to fame!
Throughout this thread, Chicago boosters have been bragging about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as if it's this great thing!
Well, looks like they want to move to New York! I guess they've outgrown Chi-town, and are ready for the big time:
The CME acquired the New York Mercantile Exchange last year, opening up the possibility of a move to New York, says a CME spokeswoman.
Companies occasionally threaten a headquarters move as a negotiating ploy, but Mr. Fioretti says it’s a real possibility in the CME’s case. A CME spokeswoman says the exchange is “committed to Chicago,” but relocating to New York is “always an option.”
If you really want to clean up you'll get all of the trolls off this thread (including yourself) You're not cleaning up anything. If you're wrong about something as simple as the meaning behind the nickname the Second City, who knows what else you've been wrong about.
Give us a link from the CHS proving that the meaning behind the nickname the Second City is whatever outrageous claim you make it to be. I'll be waiting (not meant to be sarcastic)
your the troll, I already posted the link. Sorry but I'm not backtracking...
but since you can't read...
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Originally Posted by grapico
Nah cuz, they are wrong.
In the United States, the term has long been a nickname for Chicago. A.J. Liebling coined the "Second City" phrase and applied it to Chicago to highlight his opinion of the city as being culturally second to New York.
During the mid-twentieth century, critics of Chicago continued to deride the Midwestern metropolis as a provincial backwater. New York writer A. J. Liebling commented on the dearth of fine dining and entertainment and the migration of rising literary stars from Chicago to New York and Los Angeles, and labeled Chicago the "Second City"--a metropolis whose glory days were now passed. As before, civic and business leaders fought against such
characterizations.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grapico
Nah cuz, they are wrong.
In the United States, the term has long been a nickname for Chicago. A.J. Liebling coined the "Second City" phrase and applied it to Chicago to highlight his opinion of the city as being culturally second to New York.
During the mid-twentieth century, critics of Chicago continued to deride the Midwestern metropolis as a provincial backwater. New York writer A. J. Liebling commented on the dearth of fine dining and entertainment and the migration of rising literary stars from Chicago to New York and Los Angeles, and labeled Chicago the "Second City"--a metropolis whose glory days were now passed. As before, civic and business leaders fought against such
characterizations.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grapico
Nah cuz, they are wrong.
In the United States, the term has long been a nickname for Chicago. A.J. Liebling coined the "Second City" phrase and applied it to Chicago to highlight his opinion of the city as being culturally second to New York.
During the mid-twentieth century, critics of Chicago continued to deride the Midwestern metropolis as a provincial backwater. New York writer A. J. Liebling commented on the dearth of fine dining and entertainment and the migration of rising literary stars from Chicago to New York and Los Angeles, and labeled Chicago the "Second City"--a metropolis whose glory days were now passed. As before, civic and business leaders fought against such
characterizations.
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get it now? do you see it? ...The all mighty chicago super bias posters with new accounts know all though right ???
I've spent enough time on this. next.
Looks like Chicago will lose its one claim to fame!
Throughout this thread, Chicago boosters have been bragging about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as if it's this great thing!
Well, looks like they want to move to New York! I guess they've outgrown Chi-town, and are ready for the big time:
The CME acquired the New York Mercantile Exchange last year, opening up the possibility of a move to New York, says a CME spokeswoman.
Companies occasionally threaten a headquarters move as a negotiating ploy, but Mr. Fioretti says it’s a real possibility in the CME’s case. A CME spokeswoman says the exchange is “committed to Chicago,” but relocating to New York is “always an option.”
As they mentioned in the article, companies threaten to move in order to get government subsidies...the title of the article you're linking to even says that. I don't see Chicago letting the CME move anywhere. It's way too important to their local economy.
your the troll, I already posted the link. Sorry but I'm not backtracking...
but since you can't read...
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get it now? do you see it? ...The all mighty chicago super bias posters with new accounts know all though right ???
I've spent enough time on this. next.
Here's the one of the few things Wiki is good for. Read this one statement.
don't call try and call someone else a troll when its pretty clear to everyone that actually know why Chicago is called the Second City that you're wrong.
Actually, I will admit here, I was wrong. Chicago is only listed as the #2 most polluted city in the country this year. Congrats!
Most years, though, Chicago is ranked the most polluted. This year is different and I salute Chicago for the improvement to second worst!
Wait? What's Pace Bus? You aren't seriously getting your information from an annual report released from a suburban bus company are you?
I don't get if you've ever been to Chicago either. Mount Greenwood is 94% non-hispanic white located in the extreme southwestern corner of the city. It's nowhere NEAR the heart of the south side.
Chicago has posted a loss of around 40,000 people according to the census. That's below many other cities, and only a 1.4% drop. Not even near the top for large cities. Regardless of the fact the 1999 estimates had Chicago losing big, and it ended up gaining over 100,000.
St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, etc. etc. have always had a higher murder rate than Chicago. We're about middle of the pack for large cities with 16/100,000.
The city has high rates for industrial pollution on the southside and Indiana industrial areas - mostly away from population centers. Air and water pollution aren't even in the top 10 according to multiple sources.
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