Chicago Notes
Still has a Midwestern feel to it
Addison station
White guy with a skateboard
Damen hipster looking white guy
Feels like Philadelphia
You didn’t see a lot of homeless people for how big it is
It’s true Mexicans are kinda “white” here.
Mexicans are mainstream here in Chicago
Papel picante by the river
You know we’re mainstream
Mexican men with really white wives (and their children)
A friendly midwestern vibe
People are friendly here less aggressive, less rush
Feels more calm here.
Not as important as NYC or LA
That’s why.
Scandanvians and Germans came here so that’s probably why some of the whites here are really white
The purple/ black people/ Philly smell!
Chicagos a mix
Everyone gets along
You could be white and be cool, Mexican and be cool, black and be cool
City data we don’t even see white and Latino or Mexican as interracial
Really dark skinned Indian guy with Indian accent asking us to repent and warning us about Hell
Like we’ve moved on to Mexicans here
And some places in the Northeast are still stuck with their white ethnics
Mexicans here are acculturated, assimilated
I don’t think they care/make such a big deal out of being Mexican here.
Midwest culture.
Less homeless
Stronger sense of community/ People want to help you more
Waiter gave me an extra sprite for accidentally hitting me
Deep dish/ stuffed pizza
First time a white man called me “brother” that I didn’t know.
He said “You need any change, brother?”
When I check out women, they’re nicer here some might even smile.
Mexicans= America’s working class
Are Hardworking
Also on channel seven weather or news anchor
Mexicans wave their flags around
Beautiful architecture
Dane cook in Chicago theater
Uber $13 from adams house to yauco food store
In Perth amboy it cost 8 dollars from my house to QuikChek
It is true. It is more aggressive in the NorthEast.
In Chicajo, you can’t call it a “working class” city because it’s too modern and with many skyscrapers so not entirely working class although there’s a large working class here.
Chicagopuerto Ricans yauco
Cafe colao try their parcha lemonade!
Chicago
Leftist stuff
Liberal
Pro LGBT, Black Lives Matter sign said “Lives Matter.”
Puerto Ricans are so attractive
Puerto Ricans into community organizing/ social activism
One Palestinian flag
Many PRIDE flags.
The residential areas look like Jersey.
I hear it’s expensive
A lot of Walgreens
I feel Martin is right. There’s less racism in the Midwest then in the northeast
But people are more silent
About their racism here.
In Edison, Menlo Park mall, I feel a lot of whites don’t really want us, minorities around they just have to put up with us.
Black guy selling loose cigarettes.
Macy’s 7 floor
All workers here are Latino
Imo, Newark Italian hot dogs are better than Italian beef sausages
Sciortinos is better than giordanos deep dish pizza
But people were nicer in giordanos
Of course, the Italian food is better in the coastal states bc it’s more authentic
More simple
A black woman didn’t know where to get to where she was going
A white woman told her just use google maps and it tells you where you need to go.
If this were the NE, the black woman would have reacted like “do you think I’m stupid?”
It seems like there’s more Polish pride in Chicago than in NY.
Outside of green point, there’s not much polish pride/ culture in NY.
Has more Polish influence than NY/ even NJ
Except Wallington?
We are so Godless out in the Northeast.
Robert’s pizza?
A lot of Indians, not too many East Asians
That look out for you more one woman dating to man “Watch out sir” as he was crossing in the middle of the street
New modern
When I’m riding the bus it looks so modern it feels they made new bus lanes for us
Like in the west.
Pilsen looked blighted empty lots lbut not as blighted
Humboldt park- Puerto Rican owned businesses
Some of them had accents too.
A lot of Polish spoken around here
A lot of blacks retained their Southernness here.
LaBriola deep dish pizza
State st
A lot of beggars
A lot of them single mothers
BHI
A lot of revolving doors in Chicago
A woman taking pride in getting into a knife fight and getting the cops involved on the subway.
More blacks outside in downtown in the evening.
Some niggas be crazy here.
A novena for the spiritual welfare of the African American community
People are more willing to help you if you are a
Stranger
A lot of beggars
Migrants
Single moms
Those who struggle with addiction or mental health
Chipotle
Chicken Al pastor burrito good
Staropolska restaurant
White midwestern women so cute especially the chubby ones
(They’re really white too)
It seems Chicagoans are more at peace at transitioning from an area being white to Hispanic.
Uber 15 $ for a 25 mins ride
Some signs in the miluakww and Polish place? area are trilingual- English, Spanish, and Polish
Less tensions here
In nyc a black Puerto Rican Dominican live in the same building
In Chicago you have your own house you neighbors are Polish Spanish, Russian, Italian, further black.
It’s like Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Rt 495? South side
A white wiman sat next to me on the subway
Maybe because you’re kind of white here?
Mostly blacks hanging out with blacks, Mexicans with Mexicans, whites with whites
In the Midwest minorities probably can’t be so anti white but it’s ok bc it unites them more
In the nyc minorities can be as anti white as they can but it just makes whites more divided towards them.
Our Uber driver used to love in Norridgr
White
As nice as rheypaun the suburbs in the movies
They want it to be white
They’ll allow some Latinos to an extent
They don’t accept blacks
In schools, they don’t want them there either.
They’ll allow some Latinos
Latinos in chicajo are treated better than blacks
In the NE, If you’re brown, you’re treated just about the same as a black pardon
I’m Chicago there’s a difference
PRs DRs in NJ/ NY= kinda like Sicilians
Gangster culture so incorporated in their culture but many are light skinned and Americanized
Iin NE we wake up and realize we’ll be treated as black prople basically
I feel better being Hispanic here
A lot of European influence here
An attractive blonde (maybe Polish) and her mom looked like a hot blonde too saying “Peace be with you” at Holy Name Cathedral
Uber $15 from hotel to Chinatown p
North side more suburban like than what I thought
NE and California more anti American than Midwest and other parts of country?
New Chinatown restaurant sells jumex
White girls so close to me on the bus, the train, even the restaurant
Never happens in the NE.
Navy Pier tourist trap
Has nothing on South Street Seaport
But they had a hot dog stand that sold Polish hot dogs.
I’ve seen friend groups that were more diverse
Not like the NE, where we pride ourselves in being more diverse and tolerant but we’re more segregated, especially with our friend groups.
In the airport when I brought a drink they let me drink,
In NE, they don’t let me
Just the two of us- the song, you hear it
Here.
LA= all types of Asians
Chicago= all types of Europeans
In the Polish delis, they put on CBS fm type of music.
La Villita= Little Mexico
A lot of Polish people at the airport
Most of the CTA workers were black, particularly black women. I don’t know why.
White and Hispanic guy casually talking to each other as if they were both white guys
Polish guy speaking Polish and English to their American born daughters
Not a lot of halal food here like NYC.
Chicago is more laid back than NYC.
Nutella cafe Stan’s donuts
In NYC, there’s a fear for men of color (Hispanics)
In Chicago, no.
Mexicans almost seem like “honorary whites” in Chicago
In Chicago, Mexicans won’t be “white.”
In Chicago, the Polish and the Swedish become “white” athe third generation and up
I don’t see that with Mexicans or with blacks.
Chicago feels like “Out West” because we’re such in the East.
Norridge they want to manitain that as a white area
But they’ll still allow some Hispanics and Asians
No blacks really
Hispanics are kinda seen as “equals” to whites in Chicago.
A lot of restaurants close on a certain day like Monday or Tuesday, idk why that is
A taxi driber “Blacks get discriminated here. But they look for it (with their actions.)
In Chicago, I’m sure Mexicans have a good reputation.
In Chicago,
Mexicans have white proximity
Pilsen is like the Mexican Harlem just like Harlem it’s a bit touristy and gentrified, you see a lot of white people but it’s still Pilsen, in the same way Harlem is still Harlem.
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