In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
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