This just in: Carbondale and Marion are both "civilized towns" according to Chicago Sun-Times reporter Dale Bowman in a Sunday article. Thank you, sir. We accept your half-hearted complement in the backhanded manner in which it was reluctantly given.
What was it about us you most appreciated? Our indoor plumbing? Our acknowledged mastery of the incandescent bulb? Our gramophones? Horseless carriages? The word usements that we structure?
I guess Chicago is the city of big shoulders because it's citizens get so much practice shrugging.
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