A Saturday in Chicago Chicago has always been my second favorite city. Second only to Las Vegas, and only because Vegas has far better weather, and is surrounded by the desert, a place that’s magical to me. Chicago is a blue collar Midwestern city, and it has my favorite American art museum. Have you been to The Art Institute of Chicago? It’s where Nighthawks is, the famous Edward Hopper painting, my favorite painting, and you can see American Gothic there. You should go. Plus, Chicago has far less of the elitist vibes that New York and L.A. give off. I’m not looking down on those cities, I love them, too, in their own ways, but Chicago is full of real people, people like you and me, and while there’s still a lot of wealthy residents, they don’t typically dominate the news like the other two bigger cities. Chicago, like most Midwestern cities, has news dominated by the problems the people in the city are all going through.
I am loving this slice of life from a writer who is slugging it out full time. Much respect.