Chicago, Dude

If you know me, then you know that I was raised in Oakland, California affectionately called The Town by any and every good Townster. If you don’t know me, well you know now that I’m from The Town.

So, you may be asking, how is it that I am now the Chicago Dude?

I’m not.

It’s actually “Chicago, dude.” My official response to all those that have lost touch with me, reconnect, and ultimately ask me, “Where do you call home now?”

I love Chicago.

There really is no place like it. There is so much to love and so much to hate. You can’t find any place else with the perfect blend of change and the resistance to change like Chicago. In two words:

Soldier Field.

Every day, I awake with the certainty that I will come face to face with uncertainty.

Every night, I go to sleep knowing that this city has changed me.

How can you not a place like this?

Where do I call home?

Chicago, dude.