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Random thought....didnt the Chrysler building get purchased by some middle eastern company or something
Who cares? It's still called Chrysler Building and nobody is repainting it. Renaming Sears to Willis means that now even less people can associate the name with the image
Willis Tower
Thats nice and all but again why do so many people visit chicago...i am so not understanding....there is nothing international about chicago lol well except for the scores of foreigners that visit this boring farm town each year
LOL, foreign visitors visit Chicago? Since when? Oh cute, delusions of grandeur!
Overseas tourists 2008 according to the U.S. Department of Commerce (final destinations):
New York City: 7,600,000
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Los Angeles: 2,700,000
Miami: 2,300,000
San Francisco: 2,300,000
Orlando: 2,100,000
Las Vegas: 1,700,000
Honolulu: 1,600,000
Washington: 1,200,000
CHICAGO? MIA!
Maybe 500,000 at best? Quite pitiful for America's "second city". Yea, what a New York competitor, huh? LOL. I am not trying to be rude, but why would someone fly overseas just to visit Chicago? You want to see skyscrapers, amazing buildings, fabulousness and excitement? New York. It has everything Chicago could only dream of X 2 or 3. Beaches? Miami. Hollywood? LA. Charm? San Francisco. Disney? Orlando. Chicago offers nothing to the average tourist and these statistics back up my opinion. I guess it is a boring farm town (you said it, not me).
PS, it's impossible to gauge how many Americans are visiting Chicago versus actually going to visit Chicago, so domestic travel patterns never tell the entire picture. These stats foreign stats are quite revealing aren't they? See NYC all the way up there (at nearly 3X LA's visitors) and Chicago missing from the chart? LOL.
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Who cares? It's still called Chrysler Building and nobody is repainting it. Renaming Sears to Willis means that now even less people can associate the name with the image
Willis Tower
They're not repainting it. I guess that double checking facts is another thing you trolls don't do. I guess you can't handle someone refuting what you said and you get mad, not need to. You were just wrong again.
LOL, foreign visitors visit Chicago? Since when? Oh cute, delusions of grandeur!
Overseas tourists 2008 according to the U.S. Department of Commerce (final destinations):
New York City: 7,600,000
..
.
.
Los Angeles: 2,700,000
Miami: 2,300,000
San Francisco: 2,300,000
Orlando: 2,100,000
Las Vegas: 1,700,000
Honolulu: 1,600,000
Washington: 1,200,000
CHICAGO? MIA!
Maybe 500,000 at best? Quite pitiful for America's "second city". Yea, what a New York competitor, huh? LOL. I am not trying to be rude, why would someone fly overseas just to visit Chicago? You want to see skyscrapers, amazing buildings, fabulousness and excitement? New York. It has everything Chicago could only dream of X 2 or 3. Beaches? Miami. Hollywood? LA. Charm? San Francisco. Disney? Orlando. Chicago offers nothing to the average tourist and these statistics back up my opinion. I guess it is a boring farm town (you said it, not me).
PS, it's impossible to gauge how many Americans are visiting Chicago versus actually going to visit Chicago, so domestic travel patterns never tell the entire picture. These stats foreign stats are quite revealing aren't they? See NYC all the way up there (at nearly 3X LA's visitors) and Chicago missing from the chart? LOL.
Congratulations on Olympics in Chicago. I mean with Obama and Oprah fighting for the caase IOC must have really despised Chicago to award the honor to Rio instead.
The again, they have visited and exprienced Chicago themselves...
LOL -- another alias! And this one has even sh&ttier spelling than the last. You split like an atom.
DC is not the most important, California is also far more important to this country than Washington.
LOL Which of course explains why California came begging to the federal government for a bailout to prevent the state from essentially going bankrupt.
In all seriousness, I have to wonder how much attention you have been paying to the country when you make statements such as what I see above. Do you have any concept of the volume of new legislation and regulations that have been passed (or are going to be passed) just in the last year alone? It's staggering. And these regulations and laws affect literally every facet of life in this country, and frequently cross borders as well.
During the past 12 months, there has not been a larger economic force in this country than the federal government. Whatever your feelings on federal spending and government largesse, the fact is that Washington is an immense force over the country right now. If you don't believe me, ask the executives at the vaunted Fortune 500 companies in New York, California and elsewhere where their priorities are. Everyone is watching DC.
LOL Which of course explains why California came begging to the federal government for a bailout to prevent the state from essentially going bankrupt.
In all seriousness, I have to wonder how much attention you have been paying to the country when you make statements such as what I see above. Do you have any concept of the volume of new legislation and regulations that have been passed (or are going to be passed) just in the last year alone? It's staggering. And these regulations and laws affect literally every facet of life in this country, and frequently cross borders as well.
During the past 12 months, there has not been a larger economic force in this country than the federal government. Whatever your feelings on federal spending and government largesse, the fact is that Washington is an immense force over the country right now. If you don't believe me, ask the executives at the vaunted Fortune 500 companies in New York, California and elsewhere where their priorities are. Everyone is watching DC.
It's ok though because christian. is probably that his parents finally let him go on the internet like a big boy so he got a little too excited.
LOL Which of course explains why California came begging to the federal government for a bailout to prevent the state from essentially going bankrupt.
In all seriousness, I have to wonder how much attention you have been paying to the country when you make statements such as what I see above. Do you have any concept of the volume of new legislation and regulations that have been passed (or are going to be passed) just in the last year alone? It's staggering. And these regulations and laws affect literally every facet of life in this country, and frequently cross borders as well.
During the past 12 months, there has not been a larger economic force in this country than the federal government. Whatever your feelings on federal spending and government largesse, the fact is that Washington is an immense force over the country right now. If you don't believe me, ask the executives at the vaunted Fortune 500 companies in New York, California and elsewhere where their priorities are. Everyone is watching DC.
And who would Washington legislate and regulate without the likes of Wall Street/New York? Where would a bulk of that money come from? There is a reason why Wall Street's ripple effects were felt throughout the world.
The United States would be a second world city without New York City.
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I guess you can't handle someone refuting what you said and you get mad, not need to. You were just wrong again.
