Top 10 signs you are from Jewish Chicago

– You can't imagine life without Ken's Diner.

– Almost every wedding you go to is at the Congress or the Hyatt.

– Bagel Country — 80,000 sq. feet dedicated to………..bagels.

– Why is it that every kosher restaurant at the corner of Pratt and California fails?

– What the hell was No Whey Cafe about anyway?

– You look forward to shul on Friday night so you can read the Likutei Peshatim.

– You live in a crappy, old, poorly maintained 50 – 100 yr. old apartment building managed by a crappy, old, poor landlord.

– You feel a sense of pride when you tell people you live in the Cagan building.

– You know that Eagle-man ("wow, look at those low rates") is really a frum Yid.

– You sometimes wonder in the back of your mind if the burning down of B'nei Akiva (Chicago Kollel) by arsonists 10 years ago was really just a plot to get an incredibly gorgeous new building. Chos V'Shalom.

– You knew of someone who was somehow involved in the big money laundering scheme with Columbian drug lords 5 1/2 years ago.

– You can think of 3 scandals involving local Jews at the toss of a hat (pick any 3 you like).

– You once owned a pager from Beeper-Z, later known as SourceOne Wireless.

– You are a 22 year old, married stay-at-home mother of 1 with a house in Lincolnwood, and you have a cleaning lady and/or a live-in maid.

– You categorize your friends based on whether they live North or South of Devon.

– You're not sure which is worse, the long lines at Jewel or the dumb-ass employees at Dominic's.

– You went to a school Kumzits on Lake Michigan.

-You've sped over to the Evanston, Touhy Ave. or Irving Park beach for a quick T'vilas Kalim.

– Road construction everywhere, and you know all of the shortcuts to avoid it.

– You were upset when they connected the West Rogers Park eruv to the Peterson Park eruv, because now it meant you didn't have an excuse to not visit with your in-laws on Shabbos.

– You at one point went to WITS.

– Rags to riches — nursing homes, nursing homes, nursing homes………and real estate.

– You know your East and West, but not your right and left.

– You can't find the corner of Touhy and Belmont, but you can find 3200 North and 2500 West.

– You work for your father, father-in-law, uncle, or a very close friend of the family.

– Store-front shuls.