You know you're from Chicago if... [View All]

All original, just made up right now by this life-long Chicagoan!

You can pronounce Paulina Street, Devon Avenue and Goethe Street correctly.

You can pronounce the suburbs Des Plaines and Lisle correctly.

You answer "Where are you from?" with North Side, West Side, or South Side.

You have at least one friend who's worked at Potbelly, Connie's or Pizzeria Uno or Due.

You know the difference between Pizzeria Uno and Due.

You would not deign to call the cardboard-and-tomato-sauce concoction New Yorkers favor "pizza."

You eat hot dogs with lettuce, tomato, onion sauerkraut, pickle relish, mustard, hot peppers and cucumber.

Only Vienna Beef is a real hot dog.

You drive on LSD.

You're familiar with the Hillside Strangler, Hubbard's Cave and the Mag Mile.

You stick three fingers out the driver's side window, then cut across three lanes.

You have a Chicago Bulls or B-96 sticker on your car.

You can put down a bowling ball in the front of the living room, and it rolls the length of the apartment to the back of the kitchen.

You don't know how to drive up a hill.

You listen to Mancow instead of Howard Stern.

You remember Ray Rayner, Frasier Thomas, Sven Ghoolie and Magikist signs from your childhood.

You know the melody that '588-2300' is set to.

You picked up a WXRT Featured Artist Card as a teen.

It's a 'sub', not a hero or a hoagie.

You know the difference between UIC and U of C.

You ride the L to work.

Any downtown area is the 'Loop.'

You go to the Sears Tower to work, not to visit the observatory.

Your first job was as a runner at the Board of Trade.

You've been to every landmark in the Blues Brothers.

It drives you crazy that the Blues Brothers' car turns a corner in Chicago and winds up in Milwaukee.

You grew up in a bungalow.

Your version of the American dream is to buy a three-flat.

After it snows, you dig out your street parking spot and market it with lawn furniture.

You know what the Machine is.

It seems that the mayor has always been Daley.

If you've been to Comiskey Park, you've never been to Wrigley Field; and vice versa.

Softball is played with a 16" ball and no mitts.