[Fu-fu2]

Stockyards have been closed down for decades. And my experience sometime in the ‘90’s was that people from outside Chicago associated it with Michael Jordan, not Al Capone.

[Biggirl]

I think is how Chicago has been associated with in recent years, not Al Capone, but Air Jordan.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Stockyards have been closed down for decades.

I know that, but it's still a historic institution (you have to imagine the smell)

My favorite image of Chicago was from the top of the Sears tower, where over...there...on the shore of Lake Michigan, was the Chicago water treatment plant.

And way over there... on the shore of Lake Michigan...was the sewer treatment plant. (but of course, it doesn't discharge into the lake...wink wink.)

Also the Chicago river, that now runs backwards, to carry effluent away, and gets dyed green every year. It runs right through town.

I really like their airport.

[notdownwidems]

Stockyards have been closed down for decades. And my experience sometime in the ‘90’s was that people from outside Chicago associated it with Michael Jordan, not Al Capone.

My most memorable vision of Chicago was when, as a young navy enlisted man, I had to take a train in those parts, a train which went through the south side, which looked like Beirut, complete with fires in trash cans, block after block of crumbled buildings, poverty and dysfunction. I have absolutely hated the place ever since!