chicagoans to world: just let us have this

ah chicago...the city with a never-ending inferiority complex...the "second" city...forever doomed to be just behind the big daddies...kind of like a little brother jumping up and down behind his bigger siblings, peering over their shoulders for that brief airborne moment shouting to the parents "PAY ATTENTION TO ME! OVER HERE! LOOK AT ME!"

years ago chicago was home of the world's tallest building...the sears tower. unfortunately the rest of the world is full of assholes who couldn't even let chicago have that much. so they built what was the tallest concrete structure for all of a year or two...again, the world would not allow chicago to be first in anything.

so here we go again...this time it is a proposed tower...an architectural wonder stretching 2000 feet into the skyline...an enourmously tall component of hdtv. as a chicagoan (as much as i may have previously wished it would...chicago never leaves you...it pulls you in and you are forever a chicagoan...a midwesterner...country) i pray this tower will move past the proposal stage and be built.

if it is...i beg of the rest of the world...let chicago have this...let us have something again...you keep taking the biggest and best title from us in this department. chicagoans know nobody gives a hoot about us or our city...but that does not make it right to constantly remind us that we are second-rate.

well...we will always have walter (god rest his soul) and michael and the '85 monsters of the midway and real pizza and the hot dog...

we're not doing this because we're greedy...