Chicago’s Seven Gifts
The challenge was issued from Metroblogging HQ: as we enter the holiday season and approach the new year, what seven gifts does your city give the world? What exactly a “gift” means was left up to each city, and here in Chicago we took it to mean not a best-of list, but rather a surprise, like a wrapped present under a Christmas tree. Sometimes it’s the new iPod you wanted, sometimes it’s a hideous sweater that’s two sizes too small, and sometimes it’s a Zune.
On behalf of Chicago, we gave the world seven gifts: improv, the grid system, f’ed up hair, sports legends, juvenile court, McDonald’s, and Bozo the Clown.
So in that vein, what gifts, what surprises, what hideous sweaters do you think Chicago gives the world?
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