Having lived all over the State, metro East side of St. Louis, Springfield, Chicago, Des Plaines, now Aurora, I have a lot of state pride. I grew up in the metro east side of St. Louis in Illinois and would have to say had no affiliation with Chicago, it was all St. Louis. Kinda how Gary, northwest Indiana to Chicago, not Indy.
While in Springfield the connection did get bigger and there are a great mix of Cubs/Cardinal fans down there. Springfield is what I consider the ideal Middle American 100K city. It really is.
Now when I came up to Chicago, those who live up here seem to have little in touch with whatever you want to consider "downstate." I call it the "New York attitude."
I have been to NYC many times and many do feel they are the center of the world, that cities like Chicago are small. Well that is obviosly flase being there are about 9 million in the metro area.
But a lot of people think Springfield or any other place downstate is just a farm. The funny part is that many from the northern and western suburbs feel those from Springfield, Peoria, Bloomingtion, etc. are not as "cultured as them." When in reality there is a hell of a lot more diversty down there with integration of blacks and whites then in Naperville or Northbrook.
So Chicagoans, do you have state pride? Do you enjoy other Illinois cities? How do you view them and people from other cities south of I-80?> |
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