The Sunday, April 1, 2007, New York Times reports on a south side slaughterhouse, Chiappetti Lamb and Veal, and the article includes a helpful map to guide the unfamiliar reader--no, not a map showing the location of Chiappetti's relative to, say, the loop, or the lakefront, or O'Hare airport. No, it's a helpful map with a picture of the state of Illinois, with a nice, big star along the northeast boundary to note the city of Chicago. Well, excuuuuuse me! Do readers of the NYT really need to be reminded that Chicago is in the state of Illinois? Do articles about Philadelphia or Atlanta or Boston contain similar condescending graphics to educate the reader who has never visited those cities? I don't usually think too much about how Chicago and the midwest are often "dissed" by all those smart alecks on the east coast, but that was a little too much!
Second City indeed! :)
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