Thanks Jeff Foxworthy:

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Chicago.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Chicago.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Chicago.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Chicago.

If you end a sentence with a preposition, you live in Chicago.

If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of I-80 for the weekend, you live in Chicago.

If you measure distance in minutes/hours, you live in Chicago.

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you live in Chicago.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Chicago.

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Chicago.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Chicago.

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in Chicago.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Chicago.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Chicago.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Chicago.

If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you live in Chicago.

Yep, I live in(near) Chicago. I like the pothole thing, because that is what seems to be on the news...The Super Hole!

There are so many potholes on Rohlwing road (53) its not even funny... I take it from Elk Grove to Glen Ellyn a few times a week.

There's this one pothole in particular that I drive past -- It's such a large gap that a small person could lay inside it in fetal position. Terrible.