The Midwest has a weird relationship with Chicago. It’s our city dammit, but it’s thought of as a shithole because of a long history of it being a shithole and also because of a long history of it being used as a byword for dangerous urban areas. People who hadn’t been there in a decade were calling it Chiraq so much that my phone recognized the word. As a teenager (late 00s and early 10s) the far right edgelords would joke about bombing it like they did about Tehran. But it’s also a costal city with all the limp wristed elite dogwhistles and homophobia. Which is a little funny because Chicago gay culture is tough as fuck. But yeah and there’s the racism which is huge and is an undercurrent of it all.
So yeah it’s the Midwest’s own Al Capone themed LA, but the sky is trying to kill you not fires and earthquakes.
The Midwest has a weird relationship with Chicago. It’s our city dammit, but it’s thought of as a shithole because of a long history of it being a shithole and also because of a long history of it being used as a byword for dangerous urban areas. People who hadn’t been there in a decade were calling it Chiraq so much that my phone recognized the word. As a teenager (late 00s and early 10s) the far right edgelords would joke about bombing it like they did about Tehran. But it’s also a costal city with all the limp wristed elite dogwhistles and homophobia. Which is a little funny because Chicago gay culture is tough as fuck. But yeah and there’s the racism which is huge and is an undercurrent of it all.
So yeah it’s the Midwest’s own Al Capone themed LA, but the sky is trying to kill you not fires and earthquakes.
The Sky is trying to kill you?
Tornadoes, wind storms, idk if Chicago still gets blizzards but they used to…