Comments on: What Is a Chicagoan?

By: What Is Your Oath of Chicagoanship? | CHICAGO CARLESS

What Is Your Oath of Chicagoanship? | CHICAGO CARLESS — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:49:54 +0000

[...] Seven years in this city (and eight winters, but who’s counting?), and I still struggle with what it means to be a Chicagoan. I love this city more than most Chicagoans I know, and a couple of years ago came to terms with the fact that I actually am one now. [...]

By: “Nostalgia for samsara is bullshit…”

“Nostalgia for samsara is bullshit…” — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:09:18 +0000

[...] in 2007–and after my failed attempt to follow him to New York–to prove to myself I was still a Chicagoan. Funny thing, Chicago being my home is a moot point by now. I have nothing left to prove. (And for [...]

By: A Real Chicago Dinosaur

A Real Chicago Dinosaur — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:01:47 +0000

[...] all adopted Chicagoans, from time to time I get told by some other local who doesn’t agree with me to “go back [...]

By: At Home in Bedford Falls

At Home in Bedford Falls — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:01:49 +0000

[...] I have not always been a happy Chicagoan. In 2003, when I arrived in the Windy City, times were tough. Arriving with no job, few friends, [...]

By: At Home in the Flyover Zone

At Home in the Flyover Zone — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:56:27 +0000

[...] again, maybe that’s the Chicagoan in me. [...]

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:16:28 +0000

Great article. I’ve met many former New Yorkers living in Chicago and they are all happy to be living in Chicago.