Greg Sager

@UWOshkoshTitans @UWOMBB Congrats, @CoachSchweer!

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@JCBDCD @pugsandco America badly needed punk rock in 1981 as an antidote to synthpop and to geriatric arena rock bands ... and Chicago had a fantastic hardcore scene back then. '80s Chicago hardcore is legendary in American punk circles.

@GregSager3 @pugsandco he's saying it as if punk rockers and (functional) junkies aren't the coolest people

So only the Lincoln park and Wrigleyville hoods are considered "true" Chicago? And you people wonder why everyone hates you

@pugsandco @Mac4145 Meanwhile, if you live in Westmont your entire existence revolves around your car -- and Chicago itself is something that's in your metaphorical rear-view mirror, no matter whether you listen to sports radio or WFMT or Spotify. I don't begrudge or judge -- I'm just saying.

@pugsandco @Mac4145 Hard disagree. I'll grant you that Lincoln Park is full of imported posers, but if you buy property there you now have roots as well as skin in the game, even if you're born and bred in Kalamazoo, drink IPAs at a trendy bar, and fly an M flag from your graystone's front window.

@pugsandco @JCBDCD Yes, and it was glorious. Cut class, hop on the el, walk to Waveland and Sheffield, and wait in line to buy a $5 day-of-game ticket to the bleachers with the other students, nightshifters, bums, and the occasional stray Iowan. The Effigies and Naked Raygun forever!

@GregSager3 @JCBDCD 1981 it was all punk rock and junkies.

@Mac4145 @pugsandco A lot of us care because many 'burbies crap on the city at every opportunity. But if that conversation takes place outside the tri-state area, and it's with someone unfamiliar with the region, suddenly you're all Michael Jordan, Capone's speakeasies, and no ketchup on hot dogs.

@pugsandco I lived in several places in the 6 county area, never in the city. I always say I’m from Chicago. It’s a place everyone has heard of and you don’t have to explain further. Nobody cares about the details except butthurt city residents.

@OVJM_The_Branf @pugsandco Great point.

@pugsandco "Real chicago" = anywhere a city employee can live lol my dad was a city of chicago construction worker, we had to live in the city limits. was a rule back then, not sure if it still is. but ya that yellow area should be way bigger lol.

@pugsandco @JCBDCD I remember when it was a very seedy neighborhood with SRO hotels and lots of vagrants roaming the sidewalks. Then came cable TV, the national reach of WGN bringing Cubs games to America summer afternoons, the salesmanship of Harry Caray, and suddenly property values skyrocketed.

@JCBDCD It sure is now

@SportExpert34 @drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Minus ten points for using a Gosling gif ... although you avoided the bonus loss by not using a *Barbie* Gosling gif.

@GregSager3 @drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Right here buddy.

Geographically correct map of Chicago

@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope (Um, I meant *Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey*, the funny-but- a-bit-uneven sequel.)

@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope The Battleship reference got a laugh out of me, same as it did when *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure* used a game of Battleship against the Grim Reaper to spoof Ingmar Bergman's *The Seventh Seal*.

@oversonly54 @lacherbauer I only need three words to prove you wrong: Italian beef sandwich.

@lacherbauer You mean 4 seasons in 1 day… nobody in their right mind likes this shit here… broken politics, shitty weather, shitty sports , nothing about Chicago is “great”

No thank you! I like having four seasons in Chicago.

@lacherbauer Four seasons? Sometimes we have two. Sometimes we have six or seven. Spring in particular is always a roll of the dice in Chicago. I agree that warm weather year-round would be boring. Nevertheless, weather is not a selling point for our city.

@MTrucksa @midwestern_ope True. But "Chicago" and "Chicagoland" are two very different things. "Chicagoland" is just a folksier and more memorable way of saying "Chicago metropolitan area," which includes Lake County, IN and Kenosha County, WI.

@midwestern_ope yeah, funny but northwestern Indiana is considered Chicagoland.

@Phil44Traum @HereStl @midwestern_ope I'll agree to that. But it's very common to be asked about your identifying neighborhood. I've done that myself, in order to screen out the Chicago-identifying people who are actually from Buffalo Grove or Glen Ellyn rather than Belmont Cragin, Hegewisch, or Rogers Park.

@HereStl @midwestern_ope Jeff Park boy here and no one, ever in my many years, has asked about my number "on the grid"

@HereStl @brianknotts @midwestern_ope

@brianknotts @midwestern_ope Lived there for a decade. If you have an address on the grid and can tell me your numbers on where your place is then you’re from Chicago no matter what direction.

@Somechick1787 @midwestern_ope Nope. Schaumburg is not Chicago. Downers Grove is not Chicago. Midlothian is not Chicago. And freakin' Highland Park is most certainly not Chicago.

@midwestern_ope If you are from the Northeast quadrant of Illinois, it's Chicago. If you are from south of Kankakee, everyone in Chicago will say you are from "southern Illinois"

@SportExpert34 @drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Stereotype much? You're saying that a few lakefront neighborhoods are representative of the entire North Side. Well, check a map, buddy. The vast majority of North Siders are middle-class or working-class lifers with families, and they don't live adjacent to the lakefront.

@drtommybaseball @midwestern_ope Yeah you can take the “technically” part out. The heart of Chicago is in the neighborhoods. No one gives af about downtown and the north side is all transients. Full of fruits, yuppies and the type of people to post sh*t like this.

Kira Mowen selected to lead North Park Women’s Basketball athletics.northpark.edu/news/2026/5/15… @CCIW_Athletics @d3hoops #d3hoops

@RRivaldorafter @dom_lucre "Gauche" is definitely a common word, and it's been used in English for almost 300 years. Problem is, it's a loanword from French, and French has very different spelling conventions than English. Thus, it's a word that you can hear often without ever knowing how to spell it.

@dom_lucre In their defense, the word gauche is not common vocabulary. I’ve been teaching for 35 yrs and I had to look up what the word meant. I could read it, but I didn’t know what the word meant and you needed to know what that word meant in order to know meaning

🔥🚨JUST IN: It has been revealed that the school that was exposed for having students that can’t read is allegedly attempting to expel the student who recorded the original video that went viral.