So you live in the suburbs and are blissfully ignorant. Love it. I live in the suburbs too, yet I knew all about the shooting at a school that took place in Baltimore yesterday, even my sister who lives in Los Angeles knew about it! I find your lack of knowing what happens in Chicago very interesting. I'm not putting you down, honestly, I find it fascinating. Maybe it is because I grew up always watching the news that automatically covers such a large area that I am sort of programmed to tap into the news for a larger area? I am used to hearing news about Washington, Maryland and Virginia as well as news from the Baltimore area if it was important even though technically, that would be a different news channel for me, our local stations would carry it like they did yesterday about the school shooting.

For the past few days, my dad has been watching the news about the hurricane and now tropical storm. It is no where near us, but he is still watching it.