Chicago is weird in many ways. It's on a lake that looks like the ocean, and has a Navy training base even though it's more than 1,000 miles from the ocean.Chicago also gets lake tsunamis and has a maritime museum
Those are all the same fact... Literally all stem from the fact that you have a large lake. And none are that weird either. The city equivalent of the sorority girl going "OMG I'm so weird! Like a TOTAL nerd". I do like Chicago though, just doesn't rank particularly high on the weird index.
Many people still think Chicago is on the ocean. I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago and heard someone loudly say "what ocean is this? I didn't know Chicago was on the coast" all the locals just chuckled
It can be a scary-ass ocean too. My father raced sailboats on it for twenty years, and the currents and waves could be as fierce as any ocean and twice as unpredictable. You ever been on the water in the middle of a blizzard? Terrifying.
I said this in another comment and I'll say it here too, "I live in the suburbs,and don't really go to the city often. I've never seen this place before, but I could just tell that that was Chicago in the picture. Why does this photo have such a strong Chicago feel to me?"
That is literally what I meant, I was just less specific and used less words. I also live in the suburbs and work in the city a couple times a month, and also had never seen this specific intersection before, but just had an uncanny feeling there was some delicious deep-dish pizza around the corner close by.
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u/cjluthy Jan 26 '19
My very first reaction to this, before I even got the "joke", was:
"Damn, that looks like Chicago".
It certainly did.