You might be from Chicago if ...

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Kasept

I'm actually more from the Southern New England area, what's known as 'East of the River', off I-84 towards Boston from Hartford... Manchester... as opposed to New York-ish Fairfield County.

If you're really looking for a regional identifier, see who from here can identify what a 'cabinet' is.

If I'm right about what you're asking, Preakness Barbie should be able to answer this question. I heard it used at Foxwoods and was like WTF are you talking about.

Originally Posted by 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.

NYC only.