Can't comment on the icy side of the windy city - Aug 84 was HOT and
damp ;-)
Loved the folks, the museums, the loop, Ravinia, Champaign, etc.
Ph
Le 17 déc. 13 à 23:01, Tina Manley a écrit :
> My husband commuted back and forth to Chicago from South Carolina
> before we
> finally moved there. I was held hostage in Chicago for two years
> before we
> moved back to SC. I'm not a cold climate or big city person. We
> bought a
> farm in the northwestern suburbs and could cross-country ski from
> our door
> through a forest preserve to a tavern. That made it almost worth
> living in
> Chicago. We did enjoy taking the train downtown to see the Christmas
> decorations, but getting anywhere was a hassle. And it was so COLD!!
>
> I also lived in Virginia for several years. I would choose Virginia
> over
> Chicago any day but that's because I'm a Girl Raised In The South -
> GRITS.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> It's changed a bit, including some parks on the lakefront, but the
>> major
>> landmarks are still there.
>>
>> I was born on the South Side. I've always lived reasonably close
>> (even in
>> Southern Illinois, we were only 6 hours away). A number of years
>> ago my
>> employer decided to pick up and move from Indiana to the Norfolk,
>> VA area
>> because it was "more centrally located"... not sure where the CEO
>> learned
>> geography, but at least on the map of the USA that I looked at,
>> Indiana is
>> much more central than Virginia. What he really meant was, "My wife
>> doesn't like Indiana. There isn't a really swanky country club or
>> fancy
>> shopping, so we're going to pack up an entire company and move
>> somewhere
>> that she likes better."
>>
>> Anyway... they offered to pay to relocate us, even flew us out for a
>> weekend, put us up in a beachfront hotel suite, and tried to
>> impress us
>> with the neighborhood. We took the free vacation, but were
>> completely cold
>> on the area. Plus, Chicago is my hometown. There are so many
>> things I
>> love about Chicago that I couldn't think about moving anywhere
>> else. I
>> like being close enough to pop over whenever we feel like it, but
>> like
>> living in the smaller, quieter town that is Valparaiso.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:21 PM, philippe.amard
>> <philippe.amard@xxxxxx
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> I also love Chicago - spent a month there in ... 1984 ...
>>> Well, it must have changed a bit from what I understand from my
>>> daughter's report 3 years ago. And from Leica friends :-)
>>> Amities
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 17 déc. 13 à 22:12, Paul Braun a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, philippe.amard
>>>> <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 25 minutes' walk should prevail,
>>>>> so long as you have a camera with you ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> That is a good point... provided it's not snowing like it is
>>>> today...
>>>>
>>>> The wife and I love Chicago, so we don't really need much urging to
>>>> have a
>>>> reason to go. :-)
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Paul Braun
>> Certified Music Junkie
>>
>> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan
>> Howard
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