Post something nice about ILLINOIS.

[terrya]

[DarkPhenyx]

1. It isn't Michigan.

Now before everyone get's pissy for my picking on Michigan I used to live in Toledo, OH. Every place has anotehr place they pickon. In Toledo they pick on Michigan. In Iraq? They pick on Michigan.

[zbdent]

7. Didn't Yakov say that about Cleveland?

"Everybody picks on a city. In America, everybody picks on Cleveland. In Soviet Union, we too pick on a city. Cleveland."

[DarkPhenyx]

16. Yeah, I think he did say it first.

Never said I was original.

[zbdent]

27. Wasn't an attack, more like an acknowledgement.

Or maybe an homage.

Actually, YS's real speaking voice (even in the 80s!) is a lot clearer and more English than Bush's!

[DarkPhenyx]

28. Oh, I didn't think it was an attack.

Thus the smiley face at the end. I think I put a smiley face at the end.

Yakov is also a pretty intelligent and well spoken individual. Most comedians are. I only steal my material from the best.

[SmileyBoy]

2. Home of the Connors.

[XNASA]

3. Sweet Corn & Watermelon in August

[JVS]

4. I might be moving there soon

either there or new hampshire.

[zbdent]

5. I was in Chicago once in 1985, I really enjoyed my stay

Sorry I didn't get a chance to see it. I haven't had a chance to get out there since.

I try to look for any good experiences.

Believe it or not, wearing Steelers apparel is no longer an automatic death penalty in Cleveland.

[flamingyouth]

6. I love Chicago!

The Art Institue (well, ALL the museums), all the wonderful theaters, the great restaurants, and as a cemetery fan, I love Graceland and Rosehill.

Oh, and I almost forgot, you're there, Terry!

[terrya]

10. Awwwwww. Thank you :-)

Isn't it cool? We've also got two great cemeteries, the ones you mentioned. And everything else you mentioned. Honey, I could spend days in the Art Institute.

Thanks for the compliment, sweetie.



Terry

[zbdent]

8. How could I forget -

DA BEARS! DA BULLS!

[amazona]

9. Big dinosaurs

Although I always get confused and try to see them at the wrong museum first -- but a second nice thing is that the wrong museum gives you 30 minutes to get out of the parking lot without paying once you've discovered your idiotic mistake.

[terrya]

14. 3 interesting places within walking distance:

The Field Museum (the ones with the dinosaurs...including "Sue" the T-Rex)

The Shedd Aquarium

The Adler Planetarium

[AlinPA]

11. I like Skokie, Evanston and Chicago's N. Side. My kids live there. nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Spoon River Anthology

All of the riverboat gamblers are losing their shirts
All of the brave Union soldier boys sleep in the dirt
You know and I know there never was reason to hurt
When all of our lives were entwined to begin with
Here in Spoon River.

--"Spoon River," Michael Smith
http://www.artistsofnote.com/michael/lyrics/spoon-river...

[scubadude]

29. Yes,I like this one.

I bought my copy in the Dixon Mounds souvenir shop, overlooking the hundreds of dead American Indians. It was a very touching experience, and very close to the hill...

Here it is for all to enjoy: http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/masters/sranthol.p...

[Mattforclark]

13. Obama and Durbin

[lovedems]

15. It is solid blue so we shouldn't see the chimp here before November!

WOO-HOO! No chimp!

I live in Springfield and it is a great town!

[terrya]

18. I wish the Governor would spend more time there.

There IS a pretty nice Mansion down there. Chicago isn't everything.

I like Springfield. Great town. I used to live in Decatur.

Terry

[lovedems]

20. I grew up in Decatur!

By Kiwanis Park.

Maybe we have crossed paths.

Edit: I wish the gov. would spend more time here too.

[terrya]

22. I lived near Nelson Park. On Cantrell.

We just might have crossed paths.

I still go down there...and the smell (from Staley's) is ALWAYS the first thing you notice.

[xray s]

17. Republicans fear to tread in Illinois

No Bush ads!

[flamingyouth]

19. Bookman's Alley in Evanston!

Whew - I almost forgot that!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

21. Got drunker than a monkey..........

at good ol' Comiskey. Billy Crystal threw out the first pitch, and the game was rained out($8 tickets, ).

[terrya]

23. It's now "US Cellular Field". And the new one is an eyesore, IMO.

But not as much as an eyesore as the newly renovated Soldier's Field, price tag $600 million (grrrrrr)

[DAGDA56]

24. Like it says on the license plates...

..."land of The-Last-Decent-Republican-President" (of course, they shortened it to make it fit.)

[Donkeyboy75]

25. The Home of Champions

Well, not really, unless you're a 90s Bulls fan.

But a lot of cool DUers live here.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. The CUBS!!!!

Beat Arizona today, 11 - 3.