Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

33 things that will definitely happen to you when moving to Chicago

Your first year after moving to Chicago can be full of surprises, but the following are all pretty much guaranteed

Having done this, I can tell you that about 1/2 is completely true, 1/4 is kinda true and 1/4 is absolutely not true. At all.

Humor | Humor

15 Things Never to Say to a Chicagoan. Ever.

You see us wearing ankle-length puffy coats well into March. That's not because we're ambassadors for North Face. The winter of 2013-14 was, literally, one of the worst in Chicago's history. But that's not all....

This is for my friends in one of my adopted cities. You guys are wrong about two things though. 1. You do have an accent (it's Californians who have no accent) and 2. Deep dish=not pizza no matter where it is from. The rest is all true though!

Humor | Chicago Humor

51 things you'll never hear a Chicagoan say

Utter any of these sentences in public and risk being called out as a faux Chicagoan. Consider yourself warned.