You might be from Chicago if ...

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Riot

3. You measure distance in minutes (especially 'from the city'). And you swear everything is pretty much 1/2 hour away.
7. It's 'Kitty corner' not 'Katty corner'.
14. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: 'Where's my coat at?' or 'Can I go with?'
39. You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847, 630, 773, 708, 312, & 815.
41. You respond to the question 'Where are you from?' with a 'side'. Example: 'WestSide,' 'SouthSide' or 'NorthSide'.
42. You know the phone number to 'Empire Carpet'!

These are my favorite typical ones -- and add in 224 as an area code we have to manage now too

[Riot]

"The suburbs" - used to be Oak Park!

My favs:
18. You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.
19. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Riot

"The suburbs" - used to be Oak Park!

My favs:
18. You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.
19. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens.

I know none of those

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Scav

I know none of those

You are a child, Grasshopper :-) I remember when Schaumburg and Elk Grove were fields, and Barrington was "way west".

I read nothing about Ditka or heart
attack by way of Bratwurst.

[miraja2]

I lived in New York City for three years and it confused me when people there would say they were "on line" at a store (or anywhere else where they had to wait) when people in the midwest would say "in line." As far as I knew, "on line" just had to do with the internet. Is that a New York thing, or an east coast thing?

As for the Chicago list, I certainly do the add a preposition thing, (as in "Where's my coat at?), but I had no idea that was a Chicago thing.
The pop/soda thing is sort of interesting. I'm from Springfield originally and people there say "soda." I guess somewhere between Springfield and Joliet must be the dividing line between soda and pop.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Riot

"The suburbs" - used to be Oak Park!

My favs:
18. You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.
19. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens.

And when you throw in I-55 and I-355, there's a whole mess of expressways and bypasses and they're all relatively close to each other which is potentially even more confusing