I've lived in Chicago my entire life. Lived in Roseland, old Bum Town, lived in Lincoln Park, Halsted and Willow right across from King Crab, Steppenwolf Theatre sign shined through my living room window, lived in Lakeview, Seminary and George right down the street from R. Kelly's old house. Ashland and Nelson, right down from The Art of Pizza, was married at St. Alphonsus on Wellington, had my wedding pics taken on the bridge in Lincoln Park, lived in Lincoln Square, in Ravenswood Manor had Blago as a neighbor, in Budlong Woods... I've been around pal...
I've rode the Brown line, the Red line, the Blue line, the Green line, the Orange line, the Yellow line out to Skokie, the Purple to Evanston...been there done that, the #11 Lincoln bus, the 92 Foster, the 93 Dodge, the 147 Outer Drive Express, 77 Belmont, man, many, many times...
Jew town polishes off Roosevelt before Halsted and Maxwell where you'd get everything under the sun and name your price, The Green Mill in Uptown, ever Sunday you use to find me at the bar with a Manhattan listening to Patricia Barber, on Sat Sabretooth, or down on S Clark at Buddy Guy's..Mr Beef's on Orleans...Big City on Belmont fr after houtrs and a stop next door for packaged goods to swill as a nitecap after that from 1000 liquors or under the El to Clarks for some early morning chow...
I AM Chicago...
So you'll have to go a little further with your bona fides than naming a zoo...