Bryan Green

Oh, yeah, it's murky.

But it's a big deal to go down there.

It's got to be.

St.

Patrick's Day parade.

Everyone goes and looks at the river and it's a whole fun thing to do.

Chicago is one of the places where the Irish people emigrated because when they got to New York, I mean, if you've ever watched the Gangs of New York, that is an interesting snapshot of a period of time in the United States of America when New York was very much separated out into cities.

And one of them was Irish.

But the Irish and my grandfather used to tell me these stories because I think he was old enough that his grandparents would tell him the stories, the people who actually came over from Ireland over here, that they would tell the stories that...

you would get to a place like New York or one of these major cities, and they would often have signs in the window that said, Irish need not apply.

And that was kind of a rallying cry for the Irish people because a lot of people thought of the Irish people as much less than, right?

And so they were very much discriminated against when they would come over in certain places around the country.

And I think Chicago was one of those places where they kind of had a little bit of a foothold.

They

Yeah.

And so there's a lot of, you know, the Irish traditions and culture is strong up there in Chicago.

And it was, as is the Italian and the Polish and a lot of other cultures that found solace in Chicago, I think.

But, you know, it wasn't always easy for the Irish people.

I'm not saying it was hard.

harder than this or that.