Windy City: Chicago

Lake Michigan

Google “Windy City” and you will get one and only place called as Chicago. Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. Just in case, if you are still not aware or you are new reader (Welcome), I have relocated to Chicago.

Downtown

In rare case, if you are a frequent reader, you might know that this is not my first trip to Chicago. It's actually third and now it's more than a trip, it's relocation. My first perspective of Chicago from a tourist eye, more details can be found @ my blog This is just a Beginning.

This particular instance, I am getting a view of local person. I am looking at actual Chicago. It is the 3rd largest city in US and I can feel it. If you are from India, this city is comparable to Mumbai-Pune. It has local trains as well as metro and obviously buses. It's main airport O'hare International Airport is busiest airport in the world in terms of air traffic. As per my understanding, as the population increases in a democracy, issues arises. I have seen Minneapolis and now I am looking at Chicago and feel the difference. As population of Chicago is higher than Minneapolis, it has higher issues.

Colleagues

The worst economical situation of MN as per my info was to run out of money after cleaning snow.

While in CH, Teachers came out on streets to oppose the corruption due to which public schools ran out of money. I heard there used to be serial killers in MN, we have gang wars in CH. MN driving is much more easier and polite than CH. I used to work and live in suburbs in MN, well in CH, its opposite in both cases.

Constant touch with smart people

I am working in downtown in a big red box. It is one of the skyscrapper of Chicago. A normal travel consists of at least a walk, a bus and a train. Same applies to me, I walk first, catch a bus, then travel in train (colored line) and then again walk in order to reach office. It takes 1 hour to reach office, but it's normal in big cities. Fortunately, I found a place where I don't have to cook so I save some time which is covered up in travelling. I pay considerate amount which includes everything which is the cool part, I don't have to worry about anything. I have to share the room is the bad part of it. Anyways, life teaches different things at every point of life. So I am taking life as it is coming to me. Now a days, most of the time, I am busy in calls. I love that. I even changed my phone plans and number, so that I can make more and more calls. If you are in touch with me, you will understand this. It's the same reason, that I am not getting much time to update my blogs. As a matter of fact, I am spending more time on mobile than on Laptop. Strange but sweet truth.

That's the red box, where I work

I am staying in a place where maximum population is of immigrants Indians and Latin Americans which is cool as you get cheap commodities, but the place is bit dirty which is bad part. Guess everything is cool as well as bad. It looks like, in order to get Rose, you have to cross thorns, oh yes, I can experience that. I am bit worried about my tummy, so I have started walking in evening. It's a new place, so just exploring nearby places/shops.

Before I move on and explore more states in US, I thought of writing my new place: Windy City-Chicago.

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