I understand that our Second City complex hasn't completely disappated and we still probably do have a chip on our shoulders as to any preceived slight to Chicago on the part of the national media. This issue has generated so many of our threads.
I would also be remiss to say there aren't grains of truth in our perceptions that we don't always get our fair due.
So let me pose the following. It is based on the following assumption (if you don't buy the assumption, you can't buy into the argument): between new super high rises announced and planned, new museums, river and lake-front development, tremendous residential growth downtown....and more, the rate of growth and development in this city is incredible...and off the charts. With the huge number of serious plans out there, it seems certain Chicago will be a vastly different city in 5 to ten years.
If you buy that assumption, do you believe that the facts on the ground, the very nature of this incredible city we are building, will be so great by any global measure that the media, the coasts, the world for that matter, will find us impossible to ignore?
In other words, did we deal with Chicago's exposure to the world not by trying to influence the world, but by making us a force that it gladly had to deal with?> |
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