Chicagoist: Photos: Around Town

lulu

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:27:45 -0600

Thank you for the beautiful images. I left Chicago just over a year ago, for the other side of the world, and it's always nice, if a little homesickness inducing, to see pictures of my beautiful city.

JD84

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:32:14 -0600

I love the Sears tower pic. As for NOLA, I get down there 3-4 times a year for work, and it's sad to hear from some of the old timers I work with how empty it feels. I can still manage to find tons of interesting things down there, but I'm not sure I could ever live there.

Marcus Gilmer

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:23:49 -0600

thanks, kids. Both cities have a beauty all their own and these pics capture a part of what I love so much about Chicago.

smussy

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:39:04 -0600

welcome, marcus. sad beginnings hopefully will turn into wonderful present moments. i've been here 11 years and i never grow tired of my beautiful city. simply gorgeous.

clarity83

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:31:23 -0600

i left new orleans for chicago about two years ago myself. i've since been back three times. each time the urge to move back gets stronger and stronger. chicago is great - lots of opportunity, things getting done, polite people - but there is something about new orleans that takes a hold of you and doesn't let go. i'm here now and determined to make the most of it as long as my stay lasts because i know when i move back, i probably won't ever leave again.

matilda

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:44:27 -0600

Congrats, sort of, I guess. Can't imagine the mis-adventure you have (not trying to give you pity, only empathy). I know New Orleans well enough, and know enough people down there who stayed but are always having to think about leaving, and also know the overwhelming sense of loyalty that people in New Orleans have for the city, to have at least a superficial understanding of what this move must have meant. Still a sad, fascinating story years later.