Word: chicagoan
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...Civil Rights Movement to Barack Obama’s political rise, devoting attention to a wide range of problems facing America. In a press conference after the event, Jackson spoke in favor of both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, although he emphasized his support of Obama, his fellow Chicagoan, in the presidential campaign. Jackson said Obama has “charismatic gifts that appeal to people,” adding that they are “God-given gifts that he is using well.” Jackson said he worried about a fractured Democratic party contributing...
...you’ve ever spoken to a Chicagoan about his hometown, you probably already know the answer: we love ourselves. The breeze coming off Lake Michigan might not be as strong as the one felt on the shores of the Charles, but the wind coming out of our mouths can blow anyone away. Chicago has a long and proud history of, well, being proud of itself, and it’s a tradition that Chicagoans of today proudly carry...
...Miami, where this past week I could watch the Interstate 65 complexes of superiority and inferiority play out on South Beach. Bears fans were the in-your-face, we're-a-real-city crowd whenever they spotted the softer, royal blue clusters of Colts backers. I even heard one Chicagoan hurl the "redneck" epithet. (Miamians, meanwhile, just got a good laugh watching pale, overweight Midwesterners trying to swagger on Ocean Drive...
...Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” which is no surprise—getting bested by Hova on your own album is becoming a time-honored tradition. The real shock comes less then ten minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton’s top spokesman to shame. Fiasco’s not really a power hitter; he’s more about finesse. On “Touch the Sky,” he confidently spits double-entendres, references “Thundercats...
...years Chicagoan Michael O'Shea and his wife Frances had talked about traveling to Australia and New Zealand after their seven daughters grew up. When his wife died in October 1997, Michael resigned himself to never going. Then for Michael's 70th birthday, his daughters Anne, 36, a commercial pilot, and Bernadette, 37, a fund raiser, offered to take him on a trip Down Under funded by all the sisters. "My father never asked anything for himself," Bernadette says. "He was giddy for the next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel...