I love Chicago! The metropolitan area is so nice
That includes the suburbs I think and Illinois is cool
Yeah the weather there can by crazy sometimes I have heard
Chicago metropolitan area
The Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, is the metropolitan area that includes the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. With an estimated CSA population of 9.9 million people and an MSA population of 9.5 million people, it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States.
The Chicago metropolitan area is one of the world's largest and most diversified economies, with more than four million employees and generating an annual gross regional product (GRP) of $680 billion in 2017. The
"Yeah I think it was kind of cool because when a company gets a new artistic director they come from somewhere 'here they are, meet them.' So that was slightly terrifying but also kind of cool because I knew them so well. So was cool to come... with a vengeance." 
As artistic director, Deahr has most notably expanded Crash’s Chicago-based educational outreach arm while taking the organization beyond the state of Illinois both nationally and internationally. Her full-length works including "The Cotton