A co-worker and I were discussing some of the things we missed about living in Chicago. And then I realized that I could, at that very moment, vividly picture walking around some of my favorite places in the city: Borders bookstore on Michigan Ave, the Signature Lounge on the 96th floor of the Hancock Building, the lakeside walk between the Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium, and the shoreline of Oak Street Beach next to the grandest buildings in the nation. Yes, I miss it very much.