Welcome To Chicago

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The only place where you can drive to school in the morning with the windows down and the radio up.
Leave school four hours later to end up in the rain.
Have your father come home four hours later and have it be hailing dimes at you.
And then have your boyfriend not be able to see in front of him due to the snow five and a half hours later.

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