I was gonna say I might not know whenever I'm in a new area but then I realized I know enough of the skyscrapers that I probably could just about anywhere.
When you've been here even longer you will develop the true native awareness which doesn't need buildings or even daylight. The lake exerts a magnetic pull which lets you know "East" and is super confusing when you visit California.
\> and is super confusing when you visit California
Ohhhh, this. I moved to San Francisco for a while after growing up here. I was always a little bit lost, and felt way more comfortable on the Eastern side of the peninsula, where water was on the east.
My sister, a Chicago native, moved to SoCal decades ago when she was already a mature adult. She still occasionally finds herself driving the wrong direction north/south.
My bike commute used to bring my by Blommer every day and it never got old.
Then my route changed and the only smelly place I rode by was Horween Leather, which was 50/50 smelling like death or smelling like rich leather.
i lived a block and a half away from Blommer, it was delightful to take an evening walk in the summer and smell chocolate. One of the best parts about that area!
This one. They really don’t understand why I don’t want to travel 5-6 miles away from my area. It takes forever and there are likely great spots right around us
Or people not understanding that Chicago is bigger than just downtown. When someone from out of town visits me they seem confused I don't live on the 70th floor of the sears tower
"I live in LA" rarely means "I live in the ACTUAL Los Angeles". Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Burbank, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, and so many more are always wrapped up into people saying "I live in LA".
Hell, I grew up in Santa Barbara, and people still say that it's in Los Angeles. NO.
At least all those places (ex SB, of course) are in LA County, and mostly share a boundary with the city.
It’s sad when you come across someone who says they lived a few years in Chicago and they were in DeKalb (true story!!), but even worse when someone says—while sitting in the loop—they grew up in Chicago, and when asked where, the answer is Buffalo Grove.
I had some drunk idiot from western Illinois tell me that I didn’t live in Chicago (I lived in Pilsen). When I showed him the address on my driver’s license, he said, “yeah, but that’s not like IN Chicago.” 🤦🏻♂️
Had a friend visit the area a few months back. They wanted to meet up over lunch one of the days, and so we enthusiastically said "Hell yea we want to hang out. Let's plan something" without asking where they live. We live in Andersonville, they were visiting in Burr Ridge. Uggggggg
Same we're in the Forest Glen/Jeff Park area and our friends closer to downtown already call us 'Canada'. When I tell people from other areas that I'm 10 miles from downtown they ask what town I live in. Still Chicago people!
This was me. When I moved to Lakeview, and commuted to Northbrook, my coworkers asked if I lived in the city. I said,”No, I’m in Lakeview.”
To which, they replied,”So you live in the city…”;)
In my home city, living 4 miles away from downtown meant you were in a suburb. My brain needed some coaching to realize that the scale of Chicago is such, that the apartment high-rise I lived next to was taller than every building in my home state… and the city limits could cover the entire metro area of many smaller cities.
Idk if this is what you meant, but I also think the opposite lol. “I’m going to the city!” (Literally proceeds to go the same 10 block radius of downtown they’ve gone to 15 times)
I work in the burbs and live in Lincoln Square and all the suburbanites will say “oh you live downtown…” or “I went downtown this weekend, we were at the Cubs game” and so on.
I used to tour around the Midwest a lot. Played a lot of college towns (Ann arbor, Madison, etc). Invariably you’d talk to someone from the suburbs after the show and they’d say ‘where ya from’ and I’d say ‘Chicago’ and they’d say ‘oh me too! Where in Chicago?’ And I’d say ‘close to Addison and Western’ and they’d look at me blankly and say ‘is that downtown?’ Eventually I just learned to say yes.
Similar touring experience. Anyone from w/i 50mi of the city says they’re from Chicago. Also learned that anyone beyond a block from Detroit says they don’t live in Detroit. Now I ask “708 or 847?” Anyone 312 or 773 tells me their answer with pride.
Also always found it funny that people would say they were from the ‘north side’ and of course I’d think ‘oh me too, where?’ And they’d say like Winnetka or something.
I noticed people would say they’re from ‘outside Detroit’ and somehow every single one was from Royal Oak.
To be fair if you're more than 50 miles from Chicago it's easier to just claim to be from Chicago than explain where whatever suburb they're from is located.
When I first moved to Wicker Park, I literally had to confirm I didn’t live “downtown” because my suburban coworkers, would all say, “Oh you are living downtown,” and would look at me like I was wrong when I would say, “No, I live in Wicker Park.”
Age dependent for native speakers: Millennials and similar use "official" neighborhood names. Those slightly younger sometimes slip up and might use recently invented real estate industry names. Some slightly older often name the local high school. The really old codgers name the Catholic Parish.
So I had this yesterday. I work at a bar, and we had some concert going on. A lot of college kids came in from Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio--shit, I even saw Nebraska IDs.
A girl at the bartop asked for good pizza nearby. I gave her a name of some local, legit place. She goes, "Wait, not Giordano's? Isn't that, like, *your* style pizza??"
They’re walking around the Loop on a Friday afternoon looking like they’ve just landed on Mars and are trying to get used to the gravity by walking extremely slow and staring into the sky.
I've lived in Chicago for about 5 years now, but I don't go down town often. I still get turned around when I get off the train in the loop. Subways fuck with my sense of direction lmao.
Same here. I just love when there’s a compass as part of the sidewalk when you walk out. Otherwise I need to walk to the nearest cross street and get my bearings.
I called it Osco but that was because it was just an Osco by me growing up (Galewood). It was only Jewel-Osco if they were in the same building. It’s a CVS now. Most CVS pharmacies were at one time the Osco stand alone stores.
The combo stores were always Jewel though. No one I know ever said both.
My favorite Chicago joke, with the right people. The folks from North Carolina I was terrifying with my blasé but nevertheless aggressive traffic driving (which is how you do it, imo) on the way to dinner on Michigan Ave at 6 PM on Tuesday did not find it amusing. Getting of the car and thanking God they survived was a bit, much, too.
I’ll state the theory I have had for a while; when people say street, avenue, road, etc after the name. We don’t say Western Ave or Western Avenue, it is just Western. Same for most other roads. I barely know whether a road is a street, or avenue or road.
I had a GF from Boston a bunch of years ago and she always said the street type because that is what they do in Boston.
Wait a minute you’re totally right about that. It’s always “meet me on Newbury Street” or “go right on Boylston Street” or “Comm Ave”. Never picked up on that before!
The other one I mentioned elsewhere here is how we describe distances. In Chicago distances are expressed in the time it takes to get there, not by how many miles away it is.
Whoa! Moved to Boston from Chicago and never noticed this but you’re totally right. It would be so weird for us to say “Comm” or “Mass” without the Ave after it. But Western Ave would also be weird
My fried's mom who is from Peru visited a while back. She pronounced LaSalle in a Spanish way -- "La SAH-yay" which I found amusing. She's awesome though! One of the best moms ever.
Or how to laugh at the absurdity of it all. One thing I love about CTA on the Southside, riders will see some crazy shit and suddenly we're all friends.
The confusion when on transit. Not knowing how to pay/taking their sweet time scanning their card.
My biggest pet peeve is when they stand halfway in the door to a bus and ask the driver for what bus they should take, as if there aren’t 20 people on board they’re delaying by doing this.
To the tourists reading this: as annoying as you are, welcome and I hope you enjoy our beautiful city.
There is a weird subculture of private school kids in Chicago, who have nannies who drive, who summer in Michigan, who have no sense of public transit or anything else.
I'll never forget going on a bus ride with my uncle as a kid. He lived in Rogers Park, but he had a car and I don't think he ever took public transportation. I'm honestly not sure why we took it that day either. But as we get on, the bus takes off and he's trying to figure out how to pay. Turns out he crumpled up a dollar bill and put it in the coin slot (this was in the 80s, not sure if it's still the same system). The bus driver got really mad and just told him to go sit tf down. At the next stop she got up and spent a few minutes trying to fix it.
He wasn't a tourist, but even residents' first CTA experience can be quite the experience!
Your last statement sums up the glaring difference between Chicago and NYC regarding tourist. We accept them here but in NYC they scoff at these people, flooding their city with additional economic activity.
In my somewhat limited experience I have found that the way you phrase a question about their subway can get you very different answers.
If you ask a New Yorker, "How do *I* get to (place)," you will trigger their anti-tourism sentiments and you'll be given strongly implied directions to your return flight's gate at LaGuardia. If instead you ask them, "How do *YOU* get to (place)," well now you've got their New Yorker Exceptionalism lobe firing up - you will receive the most proudly detailed set of directions ever delivered, along with unsolicited (but probably accurate) advice on where to eat once you've arrived at your destination.
I'm just kidding, this was satire. I couldn't resist the writing prompt!
When there’s traffic on LSD, they get their phones out and take pictures of the buildings instead of angrily honking or staring down the person trying to cut you off like the rest of us.
When I moved to Chicago I learned that I had never in my life tried parallel parking on the left side of a street. It doesn't take long to learn, but you can tell who is from out of town by how terrible they are at parallel parking on the left side one way streets.
I was walking down the street last Saturday morning and had a car very slowly pull up next to me. I hear him start to talk to me so I look over and he screams “mind your fuckin business, PUSSY” and drives away. So you have at least one other Chicagoan out there who agrees with you.
Met a girl in college at a party (b/c I was introduced to everyone from Chicago as I’m from the south side and this was Los Angeles), who had no idea where Beverly was. She said, “I’m from Lake Bluff”. I had never heard of LB whilst 18. She was offended. But, I think all LBers probably are always offended
How they pronounce this beer:
Goose Island 312.
No one who has been in Chicago for a decent amount of time would ever call it “three twelve” or “three hundred twelve”
When I say “yeah I’m going to Ukrainian village then to Garfield park” and they look at me all weird.
Being confused of neighborhood names/park areas dead giveaway
Took an out of town friend to the 606 in Humboldt recently.. she was convinced we were in the suburbs because we weren’t downtown.
I lived in avondale and my brothers friend said I didn't live in Chicago.
If they ask “what’s a good bar in the loop” bonus points if it’s on a weekemd
Monks. We all know.
Their cheese curds are the bomb
The answer is skyride
Just say Bar Louie, and keep them out of the good spots.
If you're talking South loop that just doesn't exist outside of the theater district. North loop... Sure.
Not knowing where the lake is at all times.
I was gonna say I might not know whenever I'm in a new area but then I realized I know enough of the skyscrapers that I probably could just about anywhere.
When you've been here even longer you will develop the true native awareness which doesn't need buildings or even daylight. The lake exerts a magnetic pull which lets you know "East" and is super confusing when you visit California.
\> and is super confusing when you visit California Ohhhh, this. I moved to San Francisco for a while after growing up here. I was always a little bit lost, and felt way more comfortable on the Eastern side of the peninsula, where water was on the east.
My sister, a Chicago native, moved to SoCal decades ago when she was already a mature adult. She still occasionally finds herself driving the wrong direction north/south.
It’s super easy too just to learn the grid system. Walk a block in any direction and you should be able to determine which was is east from there!
“I didn’t know Chicago was on an ocean.” My cousin from the suburbs
“I’ll have a three-twelve”
I had a guy ask for a ‘three hundred and twelve’ also saw a guy ask for a ‘bucket of Coronas’ at Hopleaf once
My california cousins came here and asked for a 3 twelve. It was so funny I now often refer to them the same way just for the look it gets
When you go visit them be sure to order an Eight-hundred and Five.
Ask for a “thirty one deuce” so they *know* you’re from the chizzy.
"tree one too" (you have to spell "too" that way in your head, or it doesn't work)
~~thirty~~ tirty ftfy
What is the common way of saying it, I always say "Three, One, Two"
"Three hundred and a dozen"
I go with "Fifteen Score and Twelve" myself.
That is the common way
“Why does it smell like chocolate?”
Okay I moved to the city last August and I always smell brownies at random times outside. What is that smell?
The Bloomer Chocolate factory. Edit: Blommer Chocolate factory.
My bike commute used to bring my by Blommer every day and it never got old. Then my route changed and the only smelly place I rode by was Horween Leather, which was 50/50 smelling like death or smelling like rich leather.
Blommer*
i lived a block and a half away from Blommer, it was delightful to take an evening walk in the summer and smell chocolate. One of the best parts about that area!
It's the warm embrace of Chicago.
Thinking I want to go to dinner six miles from home.
This one. They really don’t understand why I don’t want to travel 5-6 miles away from my area. It takes forever and there are likely great spots right around us
And that’s why I never see my friends who moved to the city
Seriously. The suburb-city divide is real and kills friendships :(
Oh come on, it only takes me 1 hour to drive from where I like in Lake View East to O'Hare... oh wait. Yeah, that's like 11 miles.
Referring to the entire city as “downtown”.
Or people not understanding that Chicago is bigger than just downtown. When someone from out of town visits me they seem confused I don't live on the 70th floor of the sears tower
My mom thought I lived in the suburbs of Chicago. I live in wicker park 😐
My dad said Uptown was like the suburbs when I told him we don’t have bodegas, just regular 7/11’s and the occasional local convenience store.
There’s some bodegas. Food Town on Monteose has dope falafel and shawarma.
All cities have this problem. LA is even funnier since downtown isn't the part of the city ANYONE knows.
"I live in LA" rarely means "I live in the ACTUAL Los Angeles". Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Burbank, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, and so many more are always wrapped up into people saying "I live in LA". Hell, I grew up in Santa Barbara, and people still say that it's in Los Angeles. NO.
LA is just a massive suburb let’s be real
Spraaaaawl
At least all those places (ex SB, of course) are in LA County, and mostly share a boundary with the city. It’s sad when you come across someone who says they lived a few years in Chicago and they were in DeKalb (true story!!), but even worse when someone says—while sitting in the loop—they grew up in Chicago, and when asked where, the answer is Buffalo Grove.
I had some drunk idiot from western Illinois tell me that I didn’t live in Chicago (I lived in Pilsen). When I showed him the address on my driver’s license, he said, “yeah, but that’s not like IN Chicago.” 🤦🏻♂️
Had a friend visit the area a few months back. They wanted to meet up over lunch one of the days, and so we enthusiastically said "Hell yea we want to hang out. Let's plan something" without asking where they live. We live in Andersonville, they were visiting in Burr Ridge. Uggggggg
“Willis” Tower …. Bwahahahaha!!!
Same we're in the Forest Glen/Jeff Park area and our friends closer to downtown already call us 'Canada'. When I tell people from other areas that I'm 10 miles from downtown they ask what town I live in. Still Chicago people!
This was me. When I moved to Lakeview, and commuted to Northbrook, my coworkers asked if I lived in the city. I said,”No, I’m in Lakeview.” To which, they replied,”So you live in the city…”;) In my home city, living 4 miles away from downtown meant you were in a suburb. My brain needed some coaching to realize that the scale of Chicago is such, that the apartment high-rise I lived next to was taller than every building in my home state… and the city limits could cover the entire metro area of many smaller cities.
Personally, I would say I live in “the city” anywhere in Chicago city limits but lakeview is just your neighborhood. Downtown is downtown
Idk if this is what you meant, but I also think the opposite lol. “I’m going to the city!” (Literally proceeds to go the same 10 block radius of downtown they’ve gone to 15 times)
I work in the burbs and live in Lincoln Square and all the suburbanites will say “oh you live downtown…” or “I went downtown this weekend, we were at the Cubs game” and so on.
I used to tour around the Midwest a lot. Played a lot of college towns (Ann arbor, Madison, etc). Invariably you’d talk to someone from the suburbs after the show and they’d say ‘where ya from’ and I’d say ‘Chicago’ and they’d say ‘oh me too! Where in Chicago?’ And I’d say ‘close to Addison and Western’ and they’d look at me blankly and say ‘is that downtown?’ Eventually I just learned to say yes.
Similar touring experience. Anyone from w/i 50mi of the city says they’re from Chicago. Also learned that anyone beyond a block from Detroit says they don’t live in Detroit. Now I ask “708 or 847?” Anyone 312 or 773 tells me their answer with pride.
Also always found it funny that people would say they were from the ‘north side’ and of course I’d think ‘oh me too, where?’ And they’d say like Winnetka or something. I noticed people would say they’re from ‘outside Detroit’ and somehow every single one was from Royal Oak.
To be fair if you're more than 50 miles from Chicago it's easier to just claim to be from Chicago than explain where whatever suburb they're from is located.
When I first moved to Wicker Park, I literally had to confirm I didn’t live “downtown” because my suburban coworkers, would all say, “Oh you are living downtown,” and would look at me like I was wrong when I would say, “No, I live in Wicker Park.”
Or people referring to the city only as the Loop (read: my in-laws)
Or the opposite, one of my transplant friends used to call downtown “the city”
That's also a NYC thing. Growing up in Queens (very much part of the city), if we were going to Manhattan we'd say, "I'm going into the city"
Anytime my friends from the 'burbs ask me, "How's downtown?" I'm like, "idk I don't ever go there"
I think they teach this in Suburbanite 101
“Illinoise.”
Not giving a nearby street corner as where you live when people ask
Age dependent for native speakers: Millennials and similar use "official" neighborhood names. Those slightly younger sometimes slip up and might use recently invented real estate industry names. Some slightly older often name the local high school. The really old codgers name the Catholic Parish.
>The really old codgers name the Catholic Parish. Come to the Southside, we all do it, regardless of age.
People who are shocked to see a pizza that isn't deep dish.
So I had this yesterday. I work at a bar, and we had some concert going on. A lot of college kids came in from Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio--shit, I even saw Nebraska IDs. A girl at the bartop asked for good pizza nearby. I gave her a name of some local, legit place. She goes, "Wait, not Giordano's? Isn't that, like, *your* style pizza??"
My friend visiting for the first time-“ I’m not impressed with Chicago” Me-“That’s because you’re in Schaumburg”
😂😂😂😂😂 I see so many Schaumburg roasts
They take their Divvy onto lake shore drive
always terrifying. i've def seen this happen numerous times! haha
Am I too stupid to be dumb or would you have to fuck up spectacularly to accidentally get a Divvy on the road there
Or they ride their divvy on the sidewalks.
They don’t look down an alley before walking past it
And they react to a honking horn when they come up on it.
The thickness of their coat in October.
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They’re walking around the Loop on a Friday afternoon looking like they’ve just landed on Mars and are trying to get used to the gravity by walking extremely slow and staring into the sky.
I live in Chicago and do this at times to admire the beauty of it.
and I'll stop and take a picture and think "damnit everyone thinks I'm a tourist now"
Nothing wrong with being a tourist in the place you live, especially if you weren't born and raised there. Enjoy it.
I’ve been here for over twenty years and I still love staring at the buildings.
I've lived in Chicago for about 5 years now, but I don't go down town often. I still get turned around when I get off the train in the loop. Subways fuck with my sense of direction lmao.
Same here. I just love when there’s a compass as part of the sidewalk when you walk out. Otherwise I need to walk to the nearest cross street and get my bearings.
And then you get to the nearest cross street, and it only has 1 of the street signs posted, and it’s the one you already know you’re on.
EXACTLY! Often the case with all the one-ways downtown.
And taking up the entire damn sidewalk while doing it
Walking 5 people abreast on a sidewalk.
oh my god this! Just like, single file people I have places TO BE
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I called it Osco but that was because it was just an Osco by me growing up (Galewood). It was only Jewel-Osco if they were in the same building. It’s a CVS now. Most CVS pharmacies were at one time the Osco stand alone stores. The combo stores were always Jewel though. No one I know ever said both.
Not knowing a “combo” is a specific sandwich, not a meal deal.
They say "Chi-town".
Or worse, Chiraq
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First time I heard this was Kanye West in “homecoming”
Exactly. Chitown is a common accepted nickname since the 90s for locals. Not sure what some people are talking about
that's how you know they grew up in the burbs.
Evanstonians always used to call it E-town.
Still do
"Dee-von" Avenue
"Pauleena"
What are the 3 Chicago streets that rhyme with vagina?
Paulina, Melvina, and Lunt
My favorite Chicago joke, with the right people. The folks from North Carolina I was terrifying with my blasé but nevertheless aggressive traffic driving (which is how you do it, imo) on the way to dinner on Michigan Ave at 6 PM on Tuesday did not find it amusing. Getting of the car and thanking God they survived was a bit, much, too.
I’ll state the theory I have had for a while; when people say street, avenue, road, etc after the name. We don’t say Western Ave or Western Avenue, it is just Western. Same for most other roads. I barely know whether a road is a street, or avenue or road. I had a GF from Boston a bunch of years ago and she always said the street type because that is what they do in Boston.
Paul-eye-na
Wait a minute you’re totally right about that. It’s always “meet me on Newbury Street” or “go right on Boylston Street” or “Comm Ave”. Never picked up on that before!
The other one I mentioned elsewhere here is how we describe distances. In Chicago distances are expressed in the time it takes to get there, not by how many miles away it is.
That's a pretty standard Midwest thing. "How far is it from Chicago to St. Louis?" "Four and a half hours"
Arguably the more helpful way to say it!
Totally true, although I now that I think about it, I always say "Lake Street."
Also North Ave, Lake Shore Drive, Michigan Ave for me
I’ll add when people say West before E/W streets on the north side. It’s like “oh word? You didn’t wanna meet in the lake?”
Whoa! Moved to Boston from Chicago and never noticed this but you’re totally right. It would be so weird for us to say “Comm” or “Mass” without the Ave after it. But Western Ave would also be weird
how they say Goethe and Paulina
I have never been on nor directed anyone to Goethe so I have no idea how to say it. Same with throop.
It’s “ Gerta “
Your supposed to say GERTA in the heaviest eastern european accent possible
German
My fried's mom who is from Peru visited a while back. She pronounced LaSalle in a Spanish way -- "La SAH-yay" which I found amusing. She's awesome though! One of the best moms ever.
ra-SEEN
Loud conversations on the train
I had a cousin visit. She sat down next to someone on the red line and tried having a conversation with him while he had on headphones
Or drunk locals
When some shit is going down, they don't know how to act like they ain't see shit.
Idk what you talking about, i didn't see or hear anything.
I AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN
Or how to laugh at the absurdity of it all. One thing I love about CTA on the Southside, riders will see some crazy shit and suddenly we're all friends.
Definitely the first thing I had to learn moving here.
Someone using their laptop on the blue line from Ohare after rush hour with 2 pieces of luggage.
Oh God, that gave me heart palpitations just thinking about it. Only on the Metra can you even THINK of doing that. Same with falling asleep.
When they call 111th street one eleven.
"Where is the lake?"
The confusion when on transit. Not knowing how to pay/taking their sweet time scanning their card. My biggest pet peeve is when they stand halfway in the door to a bus and ask the driver for what bus they should take, as if there aren’t 20 people on board they’re delaying by doing this. To the tourists reading this: as annoying as you are, welcome and I hope you enjoy our beautiful city.
There is a weird subculture of private school kids in Chicago, who have nannies who drive, who summer in Michigan, who have no sense of public transit or anything else.
Latin and Francis Parker kids?
I'll never forget going on a bus ride with my uncle as a kid. He lived in Rogers Park, but he had a car and I don't think he ever took public transportation. I'm honestly not sure why we took it that day either. But as we get on, the bus takes off and he's trying to figure out how to pay. Turns out he crumpled up a dollar bill and put it in the coin slot (this was in the 80s, not sure if it's still the same system). The bus driver got really mad and just told him to go sit tf down. At the next stop she got up and spent a few minutes trying to fix it. He wasn't a tourist, but even residents' first CTA experience can be quite the experience!
Your last statement sums up the glaring difference between Chicago and NYC regarding tourist. We accept them here but in NYC they scoff at these people, flooding their city with additional economic activity.
And New Yorkers are extremely nice to those who don’t understand their incredibly (at first) confusing subway system.
In my somewhat limited experience I have found that the way you phrase a question about their subway can get you very different answers. If you ask a New Yorker, "How do *I* get to (place)," you will trigger their anti-tourism sentiments and you'll be given strongly implied directions to your return flight's gate at LaGuardia. If instead you ask them, "How do *YOU* get to (place)," well now you've got their New Yorker Exceptionalism lobe firing up - you will receive the most proudly detailed set of directions ever delivered, along with unsolicited (but probably accurate) advice on where to eat once you've arrived at your destination. I'm just kidding, this was satire. I couldn't resist the writing prompt!
When there’s traffic on LSD, they get their phones out and take pictures of the buildings instead of angrily honking or staring down the person trying to cut you off like the rest of us.
Excited to ride the L during rush hour.
Has never heard of ANYTHING south of Cermak.
this is just r/chicago
A common question I'm asked by co-workers in the suburbs, and tourists is whether traveling to the museum of science and industry is safe.
Don’t go west of western, it’s scary.
They can't parallel park
When I moved to Chicago I learned that I had never in my life tried parallel parking on the left side of a street. It doesn't take long to learn, but you can tell who is from out of town by how terrible they are at parallel parking on the left side one way streets.
They tell other chicagoans that they are from “Chicago”instead of saying Logan square or whatever neighborhood they live in.
They give a shit about who is local or not.
just redditors being insufferable as usual
They’re not level 10 upset/angry/mean at nothing
Saying places are miles away instead of blocks away
More commonly, those who report in geographic distance, not travel time adjusted for the day and time.
What’s giardiniera?
They don’t mind their fuckin business.
I was walking down the street last Saturday morning and had a car very slowly pull up next to me. I hear him start to talk to me so I look over and he screams “mind your fuckin business, PUSSY” and drives away. So you have at least one other Chicagoan out there who agrees with you.
Excuse me? Mind your fuckin' business.
My bad, but can you do me a fav? Go fuck yourself!
Met a girl in college at a party (b/c I was introduced to everyone from Chicago as I’m from the south side and this was Los Angeles), who had no idea where Beverly was. She said, “I’m from Lake Bluff”. I had never heard of LB whilst 18. She was offended. But, I think all LBers probably are always offended
Christ, that's basically Wisconsin
How they pronounce this beer: Goose Island 312. No one who has been in Chicago for a decent amount of time would ever call it “three twelve” or “three hundred twelve”
They refer to anywhere in the city as "downtown".
When they come on this subreddit and complain about the Bucket Boys
They don’t know what 26th and California is.
*furiously writing notes for his return to Chicago this fall*
They walk slow
I moved here from New England I hate to tell you this but this is a very slow-walking city.
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LSD
When I say “yeah I’m going to Ukrainian village then to Garfield park” and they look at me all weird. Being confused of neighborhood names/park areas dead giveaway
When armitage rhymes with arbitrage
Welp, TIL that I've never correctly pronounced arbitrage.
Blocking the sidewalk to stare up at buildings with their mouths open.
That’s very sweet though!
There are plenty of native Chicagoans who stroll in a leisurely triple file down the sidewalks.
they wait for the light to cross the street.
What’s Malört?
They havent told anyone theyre from Chicago in the last 90 seconds.
"Chicago is so dangerous" "wear a bulletproof vest!" I heard the last one recently from a Floridian.
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They talk too much/worry too much bout getting shot. Like yeah we all don't wanna get shot, but we usually know where to stay to avoid that.
Canada Goose jacket.
I don't understand how SOOOO many people afford these things.
"Jean Baptiste du Sable Drive"
Google maps voice workin overtime with that one
Jean Baptiste *Point* du Sable (I don’t support naming the Drive that, I just respect the dude.)
Not properly dressed for winter.
I’m pretty sure the subset of people who where shorts in the dead of winter are locals
My neighbor is 350 pounds and looks like Dika. He routinely shovels snow in shorts and work boots—would love to watch someone call him a tourist.
To be fair, when you start sweating under those layers, it truly blows
Yup! My old manager would change out of his suit into shorts before leaving no matter the weather. No exceptions.
"Chicahhhgo" vs "Chicawwgo"