Chicago has become the wild wild west !! Spark.. Duck !!

[GOLDENGREEK]

Spark I know we've had our disagreements in the past and I apologized for the things I said that I felt I was out of line for. Luckily you accepted my apology and I appreciate it.

You have a guy here making pure out of line racist comments and you guys sit here and dont call him out on it? Could it be because the're 8 million people in the urban area of chicago. Look at the crime rates for new york and L.A and see what they come out to. Because its blacks and mexicans thats why the crime rate is high? Could it be economics, unemployment, drugs, broken families?????

This guy is real beaut, I would love for the esa's to run into him and he say some ignorant shit like this but most scared racists pricks hide behind their dell computer at home and write shit like that. He would never go and approach someone in that neighborhood and make a comment like that because they would quickly make him into a female genatalia.



Is crime bad in chicago? Yes it is but actually the crime rate has went down and its no different than any other major urban in america. If you mind your own business, dont screw around with people and dont go searching for gang activity, or selling drugs you will be fine.


This wasnt directed at wayne either because i know you were just trying to make a point but you should visit here, its the cleanest biggest city in the united states. And if the guy with all of 18 posts doesnt like here, why not just leave, no one will miss you one bit.

Alot of people are racist and they hide it and are all PC about it

While I dont agree 100 % , it refreshing to see someone say whats on his mind withouut worrying about being called out as a racist...instead of actually being racist and predenting they arent

Whether we want to admit it or not ..WE ALL ( every race , color and creed ) have some racism in us. Its natural.

[Stern162]

Alot of people are racist and they hide it and are all PC about it

While I dont agree 100 % , it refreshing to see someone say whats on his mind withouut worrying about being called out as a racist...instead of actually being racist and predenting they arent

Whether we want to admit it or not ..WE ALL ( every race , color and creed ) have some racism in us. Its natural.

Thank you GG. I am just trying to be honest.

[wayne1218]

Alot of people are racist and they hide it and are all PC about it

While I dont agree 100 % , it refreshing to see someone say whats on his mind withouut worrying about being called out as a racist...instead of actually being racist and predenting they arent

Whether we want to admit it or not ..WE ALL ( every race , color and creed ) have some racism in us. Its natural.

It's funny you say that because i've never considered myself a racist but i was very uneasy when surrounded by mostly black people down south. Does that make me a racist? I don't know i guess but i've never gone around calling them the N word or hating them as a whole. Hell, i'm a huge sports fan and i have no problem watching and cheering for them there. I think we are (mostly) all Americans, plain & simple .... but i guess they do scare me a little and i think a lot of that comes from thinking a lot of them hate us white people and simply growing up in a area with very few black people around. Not sure why i think that but i do.

[GOLDENGREEK]

Dino, I've heard the BEST Restaurants and Chef's in the U.S. are in Chicago!

I've heard many, many, people tell me that. Best food around. Would love to check it out!

Can you get me tickets to Oprah for the wife?

I think that fat bitch is leaviing the city soon... Im sure I can score some tix


Great things about Chicago:

The food / restaurants

Its very clean ( esp downtown )

The lakefront

Millenium / Grant park

Museums ( if your into that shit )

Shopping downtown

Different neighborhoods which offer diffrent things ( wrigley / lincoln park , etc


THE BAD

** HORRIBLE STRIP CLUBS

**THE WEATHER :

IT CAN GO FROM 80 DEGREES TO 50 IN 5 MINS

IN THE SUMMER ITS HUMID AS FUK

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SPRING IN CHICAGO ANYMORE

**TRAFFIC ON THE "EXPRESSWAYS"

** finding parking downtown / paying for parking downtown













* poor choice of prostitues / escorts

[wayne1218]

I thought under bad i would see the word "Windy" somewhere. Isn't it the windy city or is that not really true?

[Spark]

I think that fat bitch is leaviing the city soon... Im sure I can score some tix


Great things about Chicago:

The food / restaurants

Its very clean ( esp downtown )

The lakefront

Millenium / Grant park

Museums ( if your into that shit )

Shopping downtown

Different neighborhoods which offer diffrent things ( wrigley / lincoln park , etc


THE BAD

** HORRIBLE STRIP CLUBS

**THE WEATHER :

IT CAN GO FROM 80 DEGREES TO 50 IN 5 MINS

IN THE SUMMER ITS HUMID AS FUK

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SPRING IN CHICAGO ANYMORE

**TRAFFIC ON THE "EXPRESSWAYS"

** finding parking downtown / paying for parking downtown

This is so right on ...

[Spark]

I thought under bad i would see the word "Windy" somewhere. Isn't it the windy city or is that not really true?

I never considered that a bad thing ... except for wind-chills


How about you Dino???

[wayne1218]

Thank you GG. I am just trying to be honest.

stern, i've seen much more racist people on here than you based on things you said in this thread. Hell, i just thought you were being honest, not racist.

[wayne1218]

I never considered that a bad thing ... except for wind-chills


How about you Dino???

Just assumed it was a pain in the ass if you were doing things outside and the wind was blowing like crazy.

[GOLDENGREEK]

It's funny you say that because i've never considered myself a racist but i was very uneasy when surrounded by mostly black people down south. Does that make me a racist? I don't know i guess but i've never gone around calling them the N word or hating them as a whole. Hell, i'm a huge sports fan and i have no problem watching and cheering for them there. I think we are (mostly) all Americans, plain & simple .... but i guess they do scare me a little and i think a lot of that comes from thinking a lot of them hate us white people and simply growing up in a area with very few black people around. Not sure why i think that but i do.

Alot of reasons Wayne

1) our parents

2) our up bringing

3) our surroundings

People get used to and acclimated with whats familiar. Anything diffrent is strange to us. Comfort zone

I was born and raised in the city but in an all white neighborhood, however I went to a public school that was about 40% black. I had to take a bus to school and the route of the bus went thru black neighborhoods and filled with blacks. I remember being scared freshman year - They sometimes would "fuk with" white kids just for fun - Steal your drafting board and T- Square - , throw Nair on your hair on Holloween- etc.

But Im happy I went to a public school and intergrated with them. I dont fear black ppl - I know how to talk to them / like them. If you show them your not a stupid ignorant white boy and you know a bit about their culture they respect you.


Now.. if someone lived all their life in an area where its 98 % white.. how can u be expected to relate ?? Its not your fault.

[GOLDENGREEK]

I never considered that a bad thing ... except for wind-chills


How about you Dino???

Its not really that windy -- dont know where that came from

I dont think we crack the top 50 list for 'windiest" cities

[wayne1218]

Good points Dino!

[Jamaicanman]

It's funny you say that because i've never considered myself a racist but i was very uneasy when surrounded by mostly black people down south. Does that make me a racist? I don't know i guess but i've never gone around calling them the N word or hating them as a whole. Hell, i'm a huge sports fan and i have no problem watching and cheering for them there. I think we are (mostly) all Americans, plain & simple .... but i guess they do scare me a little and i think a lot of that comes from thinking a lot of them hate us white people and simply growing up in a area with very few black people around. Not sure why i think that but i do.

I do believe there is a HUGE difference between being racist and prejudiced. Your description imo sounds more prejudice then racist. I think if you acted on your prejudice, that could make you racist. If you were in a position to hire a black person and didn't based on that alone, then you are on that racist walkway imo. Seeing a tall, black guy on the street might have you "pre judge" that he plays basketball. Nothing "racist" in that I think, but there are/were better racist experts on this board to ask!!

[wayne1218]

Its not really that windy -- dont know where that came from

I dont think we crack the top 50 list for 'windiest" cities

Really???

It's funny cuz people never ask where the wind is blowing in other baseball parks but i've seen many people here ask "Is the wind blowing out or in at Wrigley today?"

I assumed it was always windy because of those questions ......

[GOLDENGREEK]

did some research

we arent even in the top 100

Q: What is the windiest city in the USA?

A: According to the National Climatic Data Center's list of annual average wind speeds, the windiest U.S. city is Dodge City, Kansas, with an average speed of 13.9 mph. Other windy cities include Amarillo, Texas (13.5 mph) and Rochester, Minn. (13.1 mph.). The windiest "big" cities are New York City (LaGuardia Airport) and Oklahoma City, which both have an average annual wind speed of 12.2 mph.

The "windy city" of Chicago isn't as high on the list as you might think. It's average annual wind speed is 10.3 mph.



Top 101 cities with the highest average wind speeds (population 50,000+)


1. Brockton, MA (housing, pop. 94,191): 14.3 mph

2. Framingham, MA (housing, pop. 66,910): 13.6 mph

3. Amarillo, TX (housing, pop. 185,525): 13.3 mph

4. Weymouth, MA (housing, pop. 53,988): 13.2 mph

5. Fort Collins, CO (housing, pop. 129,467): 12.8 mph

6. Newton, MA (housing, pop. 82,819): 12.7 mph

7. Waltham, MA (housing, pop. 59,352): 12.6 mph

8. Loveland, CO (housing, pop. 61,122): 12.6 mph

9. Quincy, MA (housing, pop. 91,058): 12.5 mph

10. Greeley, CO (housing, pop. 89,046): 12.5 mph

11. Rochester, MN (housing, pop. 96,975): 12.5 mph

12. Great Falls, MT (housing, pop. 56,215): 12.5 mph

13. Peabody, MA (housing, pop. 51,734): 12.5 mph

14. Brookline, MA (housing, pop. 57,107): 12.5 mph

15. Lowell, MA (housing, pop. 103,229): 12.5 mph

16. Lubbock, TX (housing, pop. 212,169): 12.4 mph

17. Lynn, MA (housing, pop. 87,991): 12.4 mph

18. Boston, MA (housing, pop. 590,763): 12.4 mph

19. Medford, MA (housing, pop. 55,681): 12.4 mph

20. Cambridge, MA (housing, pop. 101,365): 12.4 mph

21. Somerville, MA (housing, pop. 74,554): 12.4 mph

22. Malden, MA (housing, pop. 55,595): 12.4 mph

23. Fargo, ND (housing, pop. 90,056): 12.3 mph

24. North Cleveland, OK (housing, pop. 90,295): 12.2 mph

25. Oklahoma City, OK (housing, pop. 537,734): 12.2 mph

26. East Canadian, OK (housing, pop. 61,645): 12.2 mph

27. Midwest City, OK (housing, pop. 55,161): 12.2 mph

28. Norman, OK (housing, pop. 102,827): 12.2 mph

29. Edmond, OK (housing, pop. 76,644): 12.2 mph

30. Wichita, KS (housing, pop. 357,698): 12.2 mph

31. Lawrence, MA (housing, pop. 70,662): 12.1 mph

32. Corpus Christi, TX (housing, pop. 285,267): 12.0 mph

33. Longmont, CO (housing, pop. 82,646): 12.0 mph

34. Abilene, TX (housing, pop. 114,797): 11.9 mph

35. Cheektowaga, NY (housing, pop. 79,988): 11.8 mph

36. Amherst, NY (housing, pop. 116,773): 11.8 mph

37. Buffalo, NY (housing, pop. 276,059): 11.8 mph

38. Niagara Falls, NY (housing, pop. 52,326): 11.8 mph

39. Taunton, MA (housing, pop. 56,074): 11.7 mph

40. Queens, NY (housing, pop. 2,229,379): 11.7 mph

41. Hempstead, NY (housing, pop. 52,526): 11.7 mph

42. Lawton, OK (housing, pop. 87,540): 11.7 mph

43. North Hempstead, NY (housing, pop. 221,907): 11.6 mph

44. Wichita Falls, TX (housing, pop. 99,354): 11.6 mph

45. Laredo, TX (housing, pop. 215,484): 11.6 mph

46. Milwaukee, WI (housing, pop. 573,358): 11.5 mph

47. Racine, WI (housing, pop. 79,592): 11.5 mph

48. Levittown, NY (housing, pop. 53,067): 11.5 mph

49. Waukesha, WI (housing, pop. 67,814): 11.5 mph

50. Kenosha, WI (housing, pop. 96,240): 11.4 mph

51. Bridgeport, CT (housing, pop. 137,912): 11.4 mph

52. Milford, CT (housing, pop. 53,262): 11.4 mph

53. Haverhill, MA (housing, pop. 60,176): 11.4 mph

54. Fairfield, CT (housing, pop. 57,829): 11.4 mph

55. West Haven, CT (housing, pop. 52,721): 11.4 mph

56. Boulder, CO (housing, pop. 91,481): 11.4 mph

57. Edinburg, TX (housing, pop. 66,672): 11.3 mph

58. Mission, TX (housing, pop. 63,272): 11.3 mph

59. McAllen, TX (housing, pop. 126,411): 11.3 mph

60. Pharr, TX (housing, pop. 61,360): 11.3 mph

61. Southeast Hidalgo, TX (housing, pop. 102,051): 11.3 mph

62. Harlingen, TX (housing, pop. 64,202): 11.3 mph

63. Brownsville, TX (housing, pop. 172,437): 11.3 mph

64. New Haven, CT (housing, pop. 124,001): 11.3 mph

65. Bronx, NY (housing, pop. 1,332,650): 11.3 mph

66. Koolaupoko, HI (housing, pop. 117,994): 11.3 mph

67. Honolulu, HI (housing, pop. 377,357): 11.3 mph

68. Ewa, HI (housing, pop. 272,328): 11.3 mph

69. Danbury, CT (housing, pop. 79,285): 11.3 mph

70. New Rochelle, NY (housing, pop. 73,446): 11.2 mph

71. Hamden, CT (housing, pop. 57,841): 11.2 mph

72. Norwalk, CT (housing, pop. 84,187): 11.2 mph

73. Billings, MT (housing, pop. 100,148): 11.2 mph

74. Rapid City, SD (housing, pop. 62,715): 11.2 mph

75. Brooklyn, NY (housing, pop. 2,465,326): 11.2 mph

76. Mount Vernon, NY (housing, pop. 68,395): 11.2 mph

77. New York, NY (housing, pop. 8,214,426): 11.1 mph

78. Greenwich, CT (housing, pop. 62,077): 11.1 mph

79. Stamford, CT (housing, pop. 119,261): 11.1 mph

80. Midland, TX (housing, pop. 102,073): 11.1 mph

81. Waco, TX (housing, pop. 121,496): 11.1 mph

82. Erie, PA (housing, pop. 102,036): 11.0 mph

83. White Plains, NY (housing, pop. 57,081): 11.0 mph

84. Sioux Falls, SD (housing, pop. 142,396): 11.0 mph

85. Killeen, TX (housing, pop. 102,003): 11.0 mph

86. Duluth, MN (housing, pop. 84,167): 11.0 mph

87. Temple, TX (housing, pop. 54,984): 11.0 mph

88. Galveston, TX (housing, pop. 57,523): 11.0 mph

89. Sioux City, IA (housing, pop. 83,262): 11.0 mph

90. Odessa, TX (housing, pop. 95,163): 11.0 mph

91. Yonkers, NY (housing, pop. 197,852): 10.9 mph

92. Springfield, IL (housing, pop. 116,482): 10.9 mph

93. Waukegan, IL (housing, pop. 92,066): 10.9 mph

94. East Grayson, TX (housing, pop. 81,381): 10.9 mph

95. New Bedford, MA (housing, pop. 92,538): 10.8 mph

96. Greenburgh, NY (housing, pop. 90,263): 10.8 mph

97. Thornton, CO (housing, pop. 109,155): 10.8 mph

98. Decatur, IL (housing, pop. 77,047): 10.8 mph

99. League City, TX (housing, pop. 65,351): 10.7 mph

100. McKinney, TX (housing, pop. 107,530): 10.7 mph

101. Denton, TX (housing, pop. 109,561): 10.7 mph