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I Just Got Here

There are three million stories in the Second City.
It's sort of confusing.

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Feb 6 '10
shynessisnice: We invented the skyscraper, split the atom, made our river flow backwards, created a lakefront from scratch, figured out the transistor, drew all the railroads to us, pioneered the continuously dominated commercial air travel, broadcast the world’s first all-color TV station, built the number one manufacturing city of America, invented risk management markets, won more Nobel Prizes than any city on earth, communicate more data on a daily basis than any other city on earth, threw away more basic industries than most other cities ever had, you know, like, hog butcher, stacker of wheat, steel capital of America. Should we tell anyone? — Paul O’Connor, executive director of World Business Chicago.

shynessisnice:

We invented the skyscraper, split the atom, made our river flow backwards, created a lakefront from scratch, figured out the transistor, drew all the railroads to us, pioneered the continuously dominated commercial air travel, broadcast the world’s first all-color TV station, built the number one manufacturing city of America, invented risk management markets, won more Nobel Prizes than any city on earth, communicate more data on a daily basis than any other city on earth, threw away more basic industries than most other cities ever had, you know, like, hog butcher, stacker of wheat, steel capital of America. Should we tell anyone?

— Paul O’Connor, executive director of World Business Chicago.