1. The 'living room' is called the 'front room'.
2. You don't pronounce the 's' at the end of Illinois. You become irate at people who do.
3. You measure distance in minutes (especially 'from the city'). And you swear everything is pretty much 1/2 hour away.
4. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing 'Des Plaines.'
5. You go to visit friends or family down south and laugh when they complain about the traffic.
6. You understand that no person from Chicago can be a Cub fan AND a White Sox fan.
7. It's 'Kitty corner' not 'Katty corner'.
8. You know the difference between The Loop and Downtown
9. You eat your pizza in squares, not triangles, and you never refer to it as 'pie'
10. You own celery salt
11. You understand that the primary is the official local election.
12. You have drunk green beer on St. Paddy's Day
13. Stores don't have sacks, they have bags.
14. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: 'Where's my coat at?' or 'Can I go with?'
15. Your idea of a great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun, 'everything' is on it and a slice of dill pickle is on the side.
16. You carry jumper cables in your car.
17. You drink 'pop.'
18. You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.
19. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens
20. But you call the interstates 'expressways.'
21. You refer to anything South of I-80 as 'Southern or Central Illinois.'
22. You refer to Lake Michigan as 'The Lake.'
23. You refer to Chicago as 'The City'
24. 'The Super Bowl' refers to one specific game in January 1986.
25. You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers.
26. You buy 'The Trib' and not the Tribune.
27. You know that despite being on the lake, there is no such place as the Waterfront.
28. You think 45 degrees is great weather to wash your car.
29. You picnic or ri! de your bike in the 'forest preserve'
30. You cried when Bozo was canceled on WGN.
31.You know what goes on a Chicago style hot dog.
32.You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is.
33. You know why they call Chicago 'The Windy City.'
34. You understand what 'lake-effect' means
35. You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which station they end up at.
37. You have ridden the 'L.'
38. You think your next-door neighbor is a cousin to Tony Soprano.
39. You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847,630,773,708, 312, & 815.
40. You have at some time in your life, used your furniture or a friend's body to guard your parking spot in winter
41. You respond to the question 'Where are you from' with a 'side.' Example: 'West Side,' 'South Side' or 'North Side.'
42. You know the phone number to Empire Carpet!
43. You know what a garache-key is!

#28a. You have washed your car one side at a time, moving it around to face the sun, to keep the water from freezing onto it, just to "knock off some of the salt".

#44. You have broken a wheel or gotten a flat tire from a pothole.
#45. You know better than to travel north on 94 on Friday after 1:00pm.
#46. You refer to Miller Park as "Wrigley North" and travel there to see Da Cubs!

Damn straight!


The cheese and "toppings" belong UNDER the sauce.

ahhhh man now I'm hungry!!

Malnati's

Notice the size of the butt in the upper right hand corner, welcome to America.

Damn you!!!! now I want to stop at Giordano's on the way home!

Mmm that has to be lou malnati's, look at the size of the tomato chunks on top.

#47. You know how it feels to experiance all four seasons in the same day.

lol yup that is so true all of the above

yeah to the all 4 seasons thing...Speaking of seasons, Im sick of spring. It needs to get hot and dry(er) asap.

49a. CHI-TOWN THATS ALL, ENOUGH SAID

Haha!! Sooooo true. Half of the things I didn't really notice until I moved somewhere else. It's all so true. LOL