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
and they were like on both sides of him just going nuts, and i m like that s it. you know, you guys got to go. but he says, you know man, you re a real buzzkill . and it stuck to me ever since. i mean it s carved in stone pretty much. chicago is famously a sports town. the bulls, the bears, the cubs, the white sox. to you and me, those are just names, but to many chicagoans, a cause, a defining lifestyle choice. the rivalry between cubs and white sox fans, for instance, is particularly vicious. difference between a cub fan and a sox fan is, a cub fan goes to the park, they enjoy themselves, they have fun. the team wins, that s okay, if they lose, it s no big deal. a sox fan will turn on their team on a dime, if they don t don t play well.
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
from? a lot of people in the hood won t take me serious. they don t take chuck d serious, because at least you take somebody who s rapping about crack, and rapping about dope, that is the actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can t preach to them black panther party or marcus garvey, because they can t go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize and make some money off of it. right. despite an appalling murder rate, questionable leadership, chicagoans aren t going anywhere any time soon. the southern people we brought our spirit here, so chicago have like a warm spirit and loving spirit. it s a beautiful place, it s a genuinely beautiful place where you have to redefine what beauty is to you. when you go to different neighborhoods, and it s really bad. but even in that, there s still a beauty in the people and then just from a cultural front, we got everything here, you know. we got you want capoeira, we
you feel the obligation to where you came from. a lot of people in the hood won t take me serious. they won t take chuck d serious, because at least you take somebody who s rapping about crack, rapping about dope, that is actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can t preach to them black panther party or, or, you know, marcus garvey or this because they can t go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize it and make some money off it. anthony: despite an appalling murder rate, questionable leadership, chicagoans aren t going anywhere any time soon. shirley: the southern people we brought our spirit here, so chicago have like a warm spirit and you know loving spirit. lupe: it s a beautiful place, it s a genuinely beautiful place where you have to redefine beauty is to you. when you go to different neighborhoods, and it s really bad. but even in that there s still a beauty in the people and just from a cultural front, you know