So much to do, you won’t have time to learn card games. At least that’s how some Chicagoland natives I went to college with felt about why those of us from downstate were more familiar with card games than them.
“You wanna get tourists? Here’s how you get ‘em. They bring a slice, you bring a pan. They send one of yours to the Tower, you send one of theirs to the Bean. That’s the Chicago way.”
- EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:29 pm:
Come to Chicago, go to Wrigley and catch Triple-A baseball at Major League prices.
1. “Come do some broken-window shopping on the the Mag Mile.”
2. “Come for the politics, stay for the indictments.”
3. “Bring lawyers, guns, and money, as quickly as you can.”
4. “Come visit; we gotta pay for the Bean somehow.”
- NIU Grad - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 1:51 pm:
“Water. We have water. Lots of it.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
Is snark… encouraged?
- Dotnonymous - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
When the thing you’re doing doesn’t work…it’s because it’s the wrong thing.
- ChicagoBars - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 1:56 pm:
Not to self, do not suggest exclamation point driven slogans to this QOTD.
“”Hey America, let’s rip some Malorts and eat some steaks[banned punctuation mark].”
- Blake - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:06 pm:
So much to do, you won’t have time to learn card games. At least that’s how some Chicagoland natives I went to college with felt about why those of us from downstate were more familiar with card games than them.
- Northsider - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:07 pm:
“Still Bigger than Houston.”
“One L of a Taco Town.”
“Come for the Deep-Dish, stay for the Tavern-Cut.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:08 pm:
“Chicago Go”
“Go Chicagoing”
- Jocko - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:09 pm:
This isn’t MAGA country…regardless of what Jussie Smollett says.
- JoanP - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:11 pm:
Oh, go jump in the lake [banned punctuation].
- Huhhh - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:13 pm:
“Chicago - the people who hate us are wrong about everything else too”
- @misterjayem - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:18 pm:
Chicago: A City Worth Fightin’ Over
– MrJM
- A Jack - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:20 pm:
“Visit Chicago and see what we did to the formerly beautiful Soldier Field.”
- snakepliskin69 - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:23 pm:
Chicago, it’s not Effingham, but still a great Effingtown.
- Dysfunction Junction - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:24 pm:
“You wanna get tourists? Here’s how you get ‘em. They bring a slice, you bring a pan. They send one of yours to the Tower, you send one of theirs to the Bean. That’s the Chicago way.”
- EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:29 pm:
Come to Chicago, go to Wrigley and catch Triple-A baseball at Major League prices.
- Moe Berg - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:32 pm:
“Home of the 1986 Superbowl XX Champion Chicago Bears”
- Todd - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:39 pm:
come for the pizza, stay for the autopsy
- Tear One - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:41 pm:
Chicago: The Great Lakes’ Great City.*
*Stolen with more positive spin from that recent NYT article.
- Citizen Kane - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:42 pm:
“Don’t go”
- lake county democrat - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:42 pm:
Chicago - we do things they don’t do on Broadway.
- The House Rules - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:43 pm:
legal weed, good beer, great music, and (sometimes) decent people.
- Earnest - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:54 pm:
I was going to suggest for downstate: Come see Chicago, people. But that might backfire if they read it: Come see Chicago People.
- EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:54 pm:
“Welcome to Chicago, where we have a baseball team that has most of its fans come to games not for the baseball, but for the ‘experience.’”
- Amalia - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:55 pm:
Chicago, Go Lake Yourself
- Ok - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 2:58 pm:
The air is clear, the water is fresh, the beer’s on draft, and the land is flat. Take that California (banned exclamation point)
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:06 pm:
Chicago: Eat lots of food in our great restaurants and burn it off by dodging bullets.
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:13 pm:
We can be sure that the people downplaying Chicago’s gains would be howling if Chicago had losses.
- Chicago 20 - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:13 pm:
#PublicFundsSecretSpending
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:14 pm:
C’mon folks, this is Chicago Bars making the request.
Visit the world’s greatest “undisclosed location”.
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:15 pm:
“downplaying Chicago’s gains”
Oops, wrong thread, sorry.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:25 pm:
“We All Go Chicago”
- Rudy’s teeth - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:30 pm:
Keep your head on a swivel and stay off the Red Line if you value your life.
- Almost the Weekend - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:31 pm:
Welcome to Lori’s City
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:39 pm:
1. “Come do some broken-window shopping on the the Mag Mile.”
2. “Come for the politics, stay for the indictments.”
3. “Bring lawyers, guns, and money, as quickly as you can.”
4. “Come visit; we gotta pay for the Bean somehow.”
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:47 pm:
Take a chance, we’re number three
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:48 pm:
Chicago: Enjoy our winning baseball team
- Google Is Your Friend - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 3:50 pm:
“Justin Fields”
- Keyrock - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 4:02 pm:
Royko’s slogan still works: Ubi est mia?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 13, 21 @ 4:08 pm:
Rosemont-It?