Not that this is anything but tangentially on topic in the most basic of ways but it made me crack a smile when the thought popped up. On a Chicago photo thread a couple years back someone was talking about a friend who was NY born and raised, never left the city.
As a kid he took a school field trip to Boston and knew Boston as another big east coast city, NY - Boston rivalry looming large in his mind but upon entering the Boston he asked when are we gonna get to Boston? The scale of the cities was so different that the kid thought coming into central Boston he was entering a suburb or something. Years later as a young adult he comes to Chicago and says ah this is a real city not quite NY but NY on Valium.
I feel like the Boston from that school kid’s story sometimes looking at Chicago putting up 600-700 footers rain or shine, seismic economic shift or not, media fixation on the city as Afghanistan brought to America or not. Chicago keeps on building gotta respect that.
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