somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don t know what to do with it, who can t think of a better idea about how to spend their money. in the old days, the mechanism for doing that was you would throw it on a table. put that into the context of throwing away a bottle of 7-up in a club, that s only just we re slightly more honest about it. if you re talking crass commercialism in the very best sense of the word, this is it. is this the cultural center of the country? we may not want to think it is, but is it? what is the rest of the country? i don t know. but it s that place where they all leave and come here. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha what i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that s part of the whole experience of the desert is that it ain t
i m like, no. right. why? so it s nice to go out to the neighborhoods and there s so many ethnicities everywhere so going places like that is really awesome. one of my favorite chicagoans, chef, restaurateur, stephanie izard from the girl and the goat, and her colleague, peter wong, enlighten me. look, i knew chicago was a city of very diverse neighborhoods. everybody says so, but this i didn t know about, now i do. so where are we and why are we here? i have to say, i m really glad we re here. but why? we re at szechuan cuisine. so after going into china, we were just talking about the chengdu is my favorite place, but peter s actually never been to chengdu. and so, coming back then and it
resistance for me. it was something i fell into that i loved, that i just found out that i was relatively good at and through a series of mishaps, i found myself for this position. like you d ask me six years ago, if i would be at the main stage of second city, there s no way. i would ve laughed at you. so if this is where it ends for me, i d be happy . maybe the first thing you think of when you think about chicago is not [bleep] burning szechuan food, but maybe, maybe it should be. well i think a lot of people come and they think that chicago is like on the magnificent mile and they re like, oh then should we go down to navy pier?
that s perfection, man. what i love about vegas asian food is on one street you have the best szechuan food, the best cantonese food, you drive down the street and you get the best thai food. it s a funky, awesome asian how did that happen? gambling. but i mean, were there high rollers who would come into town a dude with a $2 million to $10 million credit line at wynn is going to go eat a $10 chinese meal because it s the closest thing he has to home food. i m going to go eat asian food, i m going to come back and i m going to drop $5 million more and then go home. and mine s unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv