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Hey, Chicago, don't drag us into your inferiority complex

By adamg on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 9:29pm

A Chicago Magazine writer pens a really long cri de coeur about how his city really doesn't suck and it's just as world-classy as New York and ends with:

Let Boston feel inferior to New York. They have a lot more reasons than we do.


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By ZachAndTired on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 10:46pm.

New York's alright if you like saxophones

By anon on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 11:31pm.

He's just bitter because he doesn't have a Harvard or MIT degree which spits out the very people who control his job.

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:08am.

I feel inferior to sovereign states where people have good-paying jobs and don't jump through hoops for their medicine.

By perruptor on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 8:07am.

why don't you go ahead and move to Europe?

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 8:55am.

What stops me from jumping off the Tobin is the knowledge that I'll someday be the one who shapes what's left of our society as a member of the most active voting bloc, while you'll be a distant memory.

To play it straight with your insincere question, I'd be happy to be near my brother, sister-in-law, and niece in London, but everybody wants to live on that island, and the people who run it know that, and put up barriers to limit who gets to derive employment income upon it.

By merlinmurph on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 9:45am.

...you'd have to come up with a whole bunch of British trivia.

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 10:28am.

At least it hasn't declined in popularity as it has here. No two people have the same cultural experiences anymore, and I can only ask about mountains and rivers so many times.

Weep not for the memories.

By anon on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:58pm.

Can you reshape the safety and efficiency dream of the public transportation embarrassment and hazardous danger known as the MBTA?? Seems like the most elite movers and shakers of the "voting bloc" are laughed at by and powerless against it.

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 6:06pm.

Pave over the rails, and sell the right-of-way to rideshare firms.

By Martin on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 1:51pm.

Nothing says efficient like paving over rails that carry 900 person trains, with 1 person vegas-overhyperloop-tesla roads.

We have too many cars, and not enough trains already. Cars suck in cities, always and forever.

By Chris77 on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:54am.

We are fortunate that Boston proper is relatively small.

By Dr. Penfield on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 1:32am.

c'est un cri de coeur
ou encore mieux, un cri de cœur

By adamg on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 11:30am.

Merci.

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 1:59am.

chippy little provincial burg with more major sports championships in the last 20 years than Chicagoans could ever dream of. We got to stop caring about our standing vs. New York in 2004. Chicago is doomed to know it's the perpetual Second City to Gotham, always merely the capital of flyover country.

By Josh blue on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 8:18am.

Since 1985
Bears 1
Cubs 1
White sox 1
Bulls 6
Blackhawks 3

Thats 12 championships (they have 2 more if you include wnba and mls)

Boston also has 12 since 1985
Red sox 4
Pats 6
Celts 1
Bruins 1

By John Costello on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 11:57am.

Bears fans are worse than Cowboys fans.

Bears fans bring up their one Superbowl win 36 years ago like it happened last week.

Jets fans bring up their one Superbowl win 53 years ago like it happened last week (and NY being NY - the 69 Jets, like the 72 Knicks, and the 94 Rangers are the best teams ever to play their sport according to them).

That being said, the Chicago Fire are going to be really good this year by picking up Shaquiri and the Revs losing Turner and Buchanan.

By tachometer on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:04pm.

They won in 1986 and 2008

By MC Slim JB on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 7:08am.

37 years while glossing over the fact that Chicago has five teams to Boston’s four.

By Rob on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:06pm.

We got to stop caring about our standing vs. New York in 2004.

Ummm, yeah.
That's demonstrative of the problem.
Boston had this complex. Jealous of NYC. Frequently whining about being a "world-class city". Insecure. Needing to be acknowledged. Frequently claiming to have invented/codified/perfected whatever is being talked about, when it's been done elsewhere as long or longer.
Boston still has this complex. Just look how they continue to obsess over the comparisons.

Chicago does not have this complex. City with the Broad Shoulders. It does not give a damn about NYC.

By Lee on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 5:37am.

…. a toddling town.

By Refugee on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:19pm.

The Chicago Marathon is a stepping stone to the Boston Marathon.

By iamblued on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 2:33pm.

The Chicago Marathon is widely regarded as “the beginner” Marathon of the Abbott World Marathon Majors with one of the widest entries and easiest course.

The least prestigious of the most prestigious. Still a great run and a fun city, though!

By dvg on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 7:00am.

Kudos for using an apropos French expression but "cri de coeur" would work better than "cri de couer" in this situation :)

By perruptor on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 8:08am.

but "cri de coeur" would work better than "cri de couer" in this situation :)

By John Costello on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 7:22am.

They don't. Advantage Boston.

That being said, they have normal bars on seemingly every corner and the world hasn't ended.

By SamWack on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 7:51am.

taller than our hills. On the other hand, we have an ocean, they have a lake. We both have rivers, but theirs runs backwards, and catches fire. But they have the blues, and there's no substitute for that.

By JPYuppie on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 12:21pm.

We have buildings taller than our hills.

By Wiffleball on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 7:46am.

because it's surrounded by 400 miles of nothing.

By Michael Kerpan on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 9:20am.

... because it IS impressive. I may like Boston a bit more, but Chicago is pretty awesome too.

By anonhere on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 8:25am.

dinner at restaurants later than 10 PM, midnight even.

By StillFromDorchester on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 9:50am.

For political corruption, they look at Boston as bush league.

Chicago remains America's most corrupt city, and Illinois the third-most corrupt state, according to an annual report from the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...

By Friartuck on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:13pm.

I've had no desire to visit Chicago...

By Fenwickian98 on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 12:43pm.

Chicago is a great city. New York is a great city. Boston is a great city. In fact all cities are better than suburbs and exurbs. You just need to actually like cities, and not define them by ridiculous things like sports championships.

By Waquiot on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 10:47pm.

Whenever this concept of "world class cities" got started.

But honestly, I don't get Chicago being in a tither about their status. Yes, more can be done on the crime front, but the whole city isn't exactly a warzone.

On one of my trips to the Windy City, I decided that it's a East Coast city with a Midwest character, or vice versa. In any event, it's a great place.

By Matt on Sat, 02/12/2022 - 11:20pm.

Couldn’t pay me enough to live in New York.

By xyz on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 12:00pm.

I hate this divisive stuff. Can't Boston, Chicago, and New York all come together to work on what's important, which is to say, making fun of LA?

By emac on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 11:04am.

Restaurants in Chicago are far better than Boston, hands down. Great restaurant scene in Chicago, nothing new or interesting in Boston (at least in comparison to Chicago or New York).

By perruptor on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 12:47pm.

YMMV, but just about all of my worst eating experiences happened in NYC.

By Michael Kerpan on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 1:02pm.

... out of thousands (tens of thousands) of possible choices.

By emac on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 8:56pm.

Hope you bought a lottery ticket that day too

By Rob on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:19pm.

After all...
What are the odds that out of all the sausage-like products; in all the tepid, occasionally-changed water; in all the occasionally-washed pushcarts - someone would pick a bad one?