>>Dan (and former Chicago resident like myself),
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>Great time of year to think fondly of Chicago, AND NOT BE THERE. ;-)

LOL!

>Friends back there show me NO sympathy when I whine about the temperature here not making it all the way up to 70.

One of the things I don't miss is standing on an "L" platform, totally exposed to the wind, hoping that a train might come sometime soon.:-)