i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

I *love* this; it's really Ray's love affair with Chicago, isn't it? Wonderful, and Chicago's such a great city for Ray, gritty and real and random and underneath it all a goodness, a belief in progress. I've spent some time in Chicago myself and I think you've got great local stuff in here.

They been almost as long as the Cubs without winning the big one, and nobody, not in Chicago, not in the world, gives a flying fucking shit about it, because the White Sox have got the Cell, but the Cubs have got Wrigley, and Wrigley trumps everything.

Yup yup. And Lake Shore is both really exhilarating and completely *insane*. Now you should write one w/ my favorite street, Lower Wacker. *g*