Here is a couple pics.
http://web.stagram.com/p/676136566636405796_10305248
It's baffling when someone makes shit this bad in this day and age. Just set fire to a pile of money or something.
I lived near Chicago for school but I haven't been back for close to 15 years now. I do miss it (but not the winters). I really liked cruising through the Loop and dodging people on Michigan Ave. I have a very fond memory of skating at night, coming over that bridge Jamie Thomas rides over in Welcome To Hell, hauling ass along the river and ollieing a little 3-4 stair that I hadn't scoped out before, then riding on. Yeah, not very impressive but for whatever reason it felt amazing and I remember the feeling like it was yesterday.
I guess some of the big spots like the Post Office were starting to become busts around that time but I never had too much trouble with cops. I remember a bank to curb spot under the Sears Tower (is that still there?), a plaza with ledges that were shaped like letters or numbers, and a 6" high kinked hubba down by the lake that was super easy and fun.
If anyone ever finds a barely ridden Kevin Taylor "secret agent" board with Ventures in the water by the Seawall, that was mine. (It could conceivably still be there, I watched it slowly sink into a crack between two giant rocks...)
For my dumb white boy story: I never went that far South but the first time I walked to Chinatown I followed the signs down Michigan to Cermak. It was basically a wasteland at this point. I stopped in a weeded lot to piss and realized I was stepping on someone's sleeping bag. Whoops. Got to Cermak and walked by some high-rise projects (Robert Taylor?) where a few people actually yelled "Get the fuck out of here white boy!"
Some guy gets in my face and mumbles "What's up man, you s?
"
"No thanks, I'm cool."
"You ain't STRAIGHT!?? You a FAGGOT?!?"
Good times!