F YEAH CHITOWN

Carla | 23| Austinite living in Chicago est. October 25, 2011 I began as a starry-eyed teenager. In 2013 I dropped everything and moved to Chicago. Share your favorite things here, start conversations, be political, be artsy. If you have questions shoot me a message. "Come show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

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Wow, hi.

It’s been a while.

What triggered me to log-in to this account? Shocker: I miss Chicago.

Oh, yeah. By the way: I don’t live in Chicago anymore. I moved back to Austin in 2016 with my now-husband to be closer to my Gran, who has dementia. I graduated on the 16th of December and moved back the 18th.

While I don’t think I’ll end up back in Chicago (permanently, at least) I still dream about my favorite city everyday. It was my first home away from home. It was my wildest dream come absolutely, blindingly, beautifully true.

To those of you who’ve stuck around this long and forgot to unfollow when I stopped updating: say hi. Let’s catch up.

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Video: Woman Launches Nasty, Pro-Trump Tirade At Lakeview Store

The disturbing video appears to show her call African-American employees "animals" and repeatedly claim she is being discriminated against.

this is … not surprising.

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Gtfo of Chicago

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Uptown | Chicago, IL 2016

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Throwback of me and Karianne at Headquarters in Lakeview off the brown line. Story of me and Karianne coming up. Prepare your tear ducts for some major action.

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WOW HI Y'ALL.

I'm sitting on the blue line now, heading back home to where I live now: the suburbs. I never thought it would happen, but yes, I've betrayed you all. I still go to school in the city but nothing beats suburban rent prices. I've been thinking a lot lately about how my life is nothing like I would've expected it to be when I started this blog. One thing's for sure: Chicago is just as much my soulmate as I wanted it to be. It's been painful, stressful, irritating beyond belief, heartbreaking, beautiful, and full of an incredible kind of love. I started this blog as a seventeen-year-old with stars in my eyes and now, at 22, what I've taken from it all is this: don't ever, ever give up on your dreams. Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something.

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Nightly dance cruises aboard the S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, 1938, Chicago.

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Flying over Chicaco, IL | Jeff Filman

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After living here for a year and a half, the fact that all the Chicago pictures on here are of downtown is so irritating. I mean downtown is great, don't get me wrong, but the beauty is in the hidden places. The places that are off the track. There's so incredibly much more to this place than a couple of tall* buildings.

*my phone autocorrected tall to y'all, I think it's trying to tell me something.

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Wake up early. Drink coffee. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and your head up. Do well, live well and dress really well. Do what you love, love what you do. It is time to start living.

(via sincerely-elenaa)

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Yoooo shout out to anyone who's still following me. I'm currently back in Texas and missing Chicago like nuts so this is my fix for the night/next three weeks.

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chicago 18/07/2014 (a.n)

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