Are you proud to say that you are from Illinois? (Chicago: school, live in)

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by grapico

That is true, but going through Southern Illinois and parts of Southern Indiana around Cincinnatti to me feel a bit like the south. Maybe they could have pushed them back farther.

Southern Illinois was settled by southerners, Kentuckians and Tennesseeans mainly, who crossed the Ohio. Their farming and lifestyle habits were amenable to the broken, wooded country in the southern part of the state. However most of these people stopped their movement north when they reached the Shelbyville Moraine and the Grand Praire. Thus it fell to the enterprising and hard working New Englanders and upstate New Yorkers to break the prairie. Fellas like John Deere.

[quigboto]

I moved here from Phoenix 6 years ago. I consider myself a "Chicagoan" for than an "Illiniosian"
I definitely think of Chicago as my "home" though, so when people out west ask me when I'm coming home I say I'm already there.

[Trollblaster]

The only people that say "I am Chicago. Illinois born and bred." are really suburbanites. I am glad to see the transplants in this thread have got a clue.

[MSchemist80]

I lived for a year in GA and constantly had to explain how we could end up with one governor in the can and the next arrested in office.

[css9450]

Originally Posted by Trollblaster

The only people that say "I am Chicago. Illinois born and bred." are really suburbanites.

You make it sound like that bothers you somehow.

Does a suburbanite saying he's from "Chicago" take away somehow from the vibe and aura that is Chicago? Or am I reading too much into what you've written?

[Alacran]

Gets annoying when people don't consider some chicago suburbanites chicagoans.
As if the chicago influence dissapears once cross the city limits

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Gets annoying when people don't consider some chicago suburbanites chicagoans.
As if the chicago influence dissapears once cross the city limits

Indeed; many suburban people have roots in old Chicago neighborhoods and are quite old school Chicago in folkways and attitudes.

[williepotatoes]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Gets annoying when people don't consider some chicago suburbanites chicagoans.
As if the chicago influence dissapears once cross the city limits

The city doesn't really end at Harlem ave. or Howard st. A town like Berwyn is just another neighborhood on Chicago's west side as far as I'm concerned. Albeit a self-governing one.

[meatpuff]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

Indeed; many suburban people have roots in old Chicago neighborhoods and are quite old school Chicago in folkways and attitudes.

Yeah, particularly us south/SW suburb natives. Nearly all of our families were in the south side of the city 60 years ago. Since then it has gotten so that there are very few places south that a white middle class family can feel at home. Our families left the city because we had to (on an individual level), not because we don't like Chicago anymore.

I'm sure Tom and his west side friends have a similar story to tell.

[odannyboi]

Saying you are from Illinois makes other people think that you eat corn and drive muscle cars.

I'm from Chicago (born and pretty much raised.. military fam, moved around) and I say I am from Chicago. I'm not really proud of it (indifferent), but when I am traveling and I say that I am from Chicago, everyone pretty much gets infatuated with the little fact... so its kinda good that I am from here.

I guess its the whole Obama being from Chicago thing, and everyone thinks its sophisticated and such... because back then, if you said you were from Chicago, they'd think you were dodging bullets on a daily basis from gang members.

Hopefully for graduate b-schools, the admission committees from other states will like that I am from here and make me stand out which will allow me to leave the city (I actually met members of the admission committee for 2 schools and they too were infatuated I was from here.. they were Cali schools).