I grew up in New York, went to college in Arizona, and have lived in Chicago for the past four and a half years. I'm currently in grad school and I also freelance write and blog about music.
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someone on my dash just referred to chicago as a “fun, cute, quaint, little city,” which is 80% wrong in my book (“city” is appropriate, i’ll give you that).
acceptable alternatives for referring to chicago:
- the queen of the west
- city of broad shoulders
- hog butcher for the world
- stormy/husky/brawling
- the miami of canada
I vote for “hog butcher for the world.”