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I’m envious @albert_d ! What a fantastic trip, and to meet so many accomplished people in their elements. Would be so great. I knew Dom and Sharon and Tony were going, but I didn’t know the others would be going too.
Isn’t Chicago a great city? There is so much to do, and the music there is just unbelievable. I’m seeing Buddy Guy this week, and he’s a Chicago native. He has his bar, Legends there, and I’ve seen and sung with him and Jim Belushi years ago when he shoved a microphone in my face and said sing something. I’m not even sure what came out of my mouth – I was that shell shocked. But the lake front, the restaurants, and the music, and the people make Chicago a great place. I miss the mid-west temperament, friendliness, and fun seekers there. That’s where I lived the longest, I raised my daughter there, and I went to 2 1/2 years of high school and college there, and all my cousins and remaining Aunts still live there or in Indiana. Just a fun time every time I visit. My best friends still live there, and we talk every week, and I’ve been in Philly over 19 years now. I don’t have much family left, so I gravitate to my cousins a lot.