<p>If you are in school there, how do you like it as a city?</p>
<p>The city is beautiful from spring thru summer as a resort rollls up to the footsteps of the city. Just watching the beaches and lakefront parks come alive each spring and summer is exciting and you didn't have to get on a plane to go to a resort. The lakefront offers free or low cost kayack and sail boats. Bicycle paths that make car traffic stop for you all over the city. Concerts and movies and festivals every weekend. When you get bored with that there is a neighborhood with every ethnic group and or country and or language represented. What ever language you are studing you can emerse yourself in thier shops, grocery stores and try out your language skills. Then try the restaurants and sample home cooking from over 60 different countries. It's not just Indian food here in Chicago, you get to sample from various north, south east and west Indian districts.
It's a beautiful city.</p>
<p>I love it more than I love New York (where I live). It's cleaner, quieter, and much more beautiful. I find that each neighborhood has its own feel to it, and there are so many little pockets in the city for cheap ethnic food, used books, secondhand clothing, and what have you. It's absolutely incredible.</p>
<p>Lived there for 11 years. It's a great city. Very cultural, lots to do and see, great food, beautiful scenery...</p>
<p>My only complaints:
-Chicago windchill makes for some of the coldest winters in the country.
-Traffic is horrible.</p>
<p>I am a lifetime Chicago native, so for me this is something of a loaded question. Chicago is the most beautiful city I have ever been to. But this is mostly because I am most comfortable here, I suppose.</p>