Comments on: A Real Chicago Dinosaur

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:17:59 +0000

It all depends on your time horizon. If you frame the idea in terms of millennia, then you could just as easily say we’re ultimately natives of the sea, since life on land began in the water. If you frame the idea in terms of a single lifetime, then everyone becomes a “native” of everywhere–either wherever you were born or wherever you end up. It seems to me a middle ground makes a lot more sense.

By: Devin Walker

Devin Walker — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:12:02 +0000

My only thing is that to say that unless you are a Native American your not a Native of some place in America is not the best thought out idea. Under that logic, if one is scientifically inclined it suggest that no one is a native European, Asian, North/South American, or Oceanian, because human life started in Africa. That means that we are all Africans, from that region, which is obviously false. To me one is a native of where they are born and where they choose to call themselves a native of if it is a place other than their place of birth.

My Grandmother was born in Oakland, but has lived the last 62 years of her life in Chicago. She’s a Chicagoan to me, just as much as I am because I was born at Cook County Hospital and raised on the Westside

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:20:08 +0000

Marko: there’s nothing wrong with Elk Grove. Other than it being, well, so far out there. You know, compared to here.

KathieH: My favorite Italian Beef is accompanied by an Italian ice the size of your head and comes from none other than decidedly suburban Elmwood Park’s phenomenal Johnnie’s Beef. I will keep Rosario’s in mind–thanks for the tip.

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:17:21 +0000

Thanks, Tony. Hey, I did my best on Cincy in this epic post from last year.

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:16:13 +0000

Bea, hush...and buy me something slushy. [Ed. Note: Haven is referring to Anthony Doyle--no relation--a corrupt Chicago cop who originally coined the term chumbolone during the infamous "Family Secrets" mob trial.]

By: Ms. Bea Haven

Ms. Bea Haven — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:29:22 +0000

I find it suspicious that the person who coined “chumbolone” was a Doyle. Are you sure your family’s not from here, Mike?

By: David

David — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:24:19 +0000

In re: chumbolone.

Touche. I don’t read Kass. I think he’s a jackass. As is true with most things Kass writes, I can actually be informed about events without listening to Mr. Oak Lawn spew about a city he doesn’t live in.