Why the hatred of Chicagoans? (Milwaukee, Madison: live, cost, moving)

[Hntr]

Originally Posted by linicx

I diagree. I live in Illinois and I do not drive 80- mph because it is illegal in Illinois. Every speeding ticket causes the cost of auto insurance to increase. Large metro areas have the same problem. It doesn't make any difference whether it is LA, SD, DFW, Phoenix, El Paso, OKC, Tulsa, KC, STL, Atlanta, Chicago, or NOLA. Tollway, Freeway, and Interstate traffic is very fast. When you mix it with illegal aliens who know nothing about fog, ice or snow it is a disaster.

The last one of those that I saw caused a 20 mile backup wherein three rigs flipped, two senior drivers died from heart attacks, tens of of minor injures, several million in damages, called out EMT, FD and PD from four states,. transported victims to six hospitals plus killed the driver's wife and their five children. The driver from old Mexico stopped in the middle of a Interstate and turned off his lights because he did not know how to drive in fog, and didn't have the good sense to pull onto the shoulder. If that wasn't bad enough it was at a busy cloverleaf intersection. Emergency vehicles had to to back track several miles to access the Interstate to get to the accident scene. In the meantime bikers and trucker were on the ground trying to free trapped victims and calm the hysterical. Eighteen hours later the cops and wreckers and city creww were still trying to clean up the mess, flush the blood and spilled chemicals from the rigs. Traffic was still moving 35-mph in the only open lane, The driver was treated and when to jail after he was released. He has to re-live the horror of destroying his family for the rest of his life.

This is why I do not speed in any state and why I do not tailgate at any speed at any time. The touble with frequently driving at 80 is that 65 it feels like 35.
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Where did you withness this twenty-mile-backup accident?



This is the only thing I have found about a huge pile up in the fog. And no where does it say anything about an illegal alien being responsible, except "tucano" made the comment on Nov. 4th.

100 Car Pileup Kills 2 In California - CBS News

[Drover]

Isn't it interesting how many brand-new accounts this thread has attracted.

[the fonz]

ayyyyyyy! (thumbs down) If I go out and buy some nice lake propery down in Illinois (not that there's much there *snort*) do I get to insult the Illinois locals there who can't afford to? I don't think so.

[Tunky]

A few years back I was working at a small, but very busy ER in NE Wisconsin. Hot, summer weekend...we were SO busy that we were all pitching in and helping wherever we could. A woman walked up to me at the desk and informed me that her son stepped on some glass in the lake. She had his foot wrapped up and he looked like he was doing ok...not an emergency. However, she made sure I understood that "we are from Illinois, I hope you have someone working here who knows what they're doing."

Everytime this conversation comes up I think of that day.

[ImaloneJill]

Originally Posted by Tunky

A few years back I was working at a small, but very busy ER in NE Wisconsin. Hot, summer weekend...we were SO busy that we were all pitching in and helping wherever we could. A woman walked up to me at the desk and informed me that her son stepped on some glass in the lake. She had his foot wrapped up and he looked like he was doing ok...not an emergency. However, she made sure I understood that "we are from Illinois, I hope you have someone working here who knows what they're doing."

Everytime this conversation comes up I think of that day.

Wow, did she really word it that way? There is no excuse for that kind of arrogance and ignorance.

[susancruzs]

This thread amazes me but then I took time to read some of it! I don't hear people around here talking bad about Chicagoans or Illinoisans, the area needs tourism so why be rude to people from another state?

Of course, I moved from Illinois to Wisconsin so maybe they are talking behind my back, but oh well, that would be their problem not mine. I really am not into worrying about what others think.

[Tunky]

Originally Posted by ImaloneJill

Wow, did she really word it that way? There is no excuse for that kind of arrogance and ignorance.

Those were her exact words. That's why it's stuck with me for so long. I heard a lot of crazy things working in ER for 16 years, not much of it was worth remembering...but that one was.

[Shaun85]

I was born in Denver. I work out here in Chicago and own land up in Wisconsin. So not only am I a FIB, I am also a "Flattlander" when I'm out in the Rockies visiting.

Double whammy.

[nanannie]

I was a nurse in ER for awhile and I am very surprised such a thing stuck with you. I have learned that any distressed parent with a child in need in the Emergency Room is forgiven many things, certainly in the line of etiquitte.
I have heard far far worse and let it slide. "Arrogance and ignorance"???
Or are we still looking for ways to bash all the people in Illinois yet again? Is there anyone not tired of this subject,,, YET?

[ImaloneJill]

I am from Illinois and not bashing anyone. I am looking at behavior. I also work in the emergency room, with psychiatric patients, drug addicts and alcoholics. I understand that people who are stressed out can behave badly. But, there is a difference between being worried or freaked out for a loved one and the belief that because you are not around a big city, professionals somehow fall short of the mark. Take it for what you will, but I still believe that was arrogance. And I am not going to question why it stayed with Tunky, but everyone has their own experience and that was his/hers.