Come On! Feel the Illinoise!

My roadtrip to Chicago!

[@joyboy8145]

Amazing video! Made My Cry

[@Patberlio]

Your video continues to make me smile and feel proud to call Chicago home. :)

[@crowpoet]

this is a fabulous video. i love what you've done with the still shots and the beat of the music. great great song!

[@mswan12]

I just want you to know that you did a wonderful job with this video. It always makes me miss Chicago. Great job!

[@Lafayettebluesman]

That was great. I lived in Chicago for the first ten years of my life.And you really captured it's beauty. Watching that was very nostalgic for me. Thank you. (Great song choice too.)

[@taytaytaytay232]

i swear this song makes me want to skip in the streets awesome song

[@BoochMarie0816]

I agree, because too often do people forget that there is a lot more to Illinois than just Chicago. :)

[@Rafaelighty]

I hope so...this city is so nice, I hope people are as well. Thanks for the tip.

[@alphamarquis]

I love chicago on that time of year...the autumn/winter.

[@DawnCandace]

Great video! I love love love this song and I love love love Chicago!!

[@Aethernial]

Finally i had this song stuck in my mind for like 3 months and now i finally know the name!

[@iluvevanescence13]

This song makes me feel like participating in a HUGE parade through the streets of Chicago :D Love Sufjan Stevens!!

[@peanutstheelephant]

I don't know why, but this song makes me think of saving people from zombies.

[@manicxminer]

Nicely done, great reminder of my time in Chicago

[@bubbafatismycat]

well done! i love this video! one of my most favorite songs, a beautiful american city; sounds like a wonderful trip!

[@Lafayettebluesman]

@JohnRhysMusician Amen to that! Our city is the greatest in the world and always will be!

[@diamond0sea]

i love that line "chicago, a new age, but what would frank lloyd wright say?" it works perfectly to have the video be from the top of sears at that part of the song. great job!

[@shadtwo]

Ahh, the Giant Bean... Gotta love Chicago. My cousin and I would try to stand on our heads, and look through the image on the Bean. Haha, memories.

[@adape0884frank]

OMG this is the best videof that I have seen so far yet and now I feel like I want to go over there one day and visit Chicago.

[@pawpawnorth]

Chicago, greatest skyline, best people, sport, music, entertainment, astounding architecture, leisure, parks, an economy bigger than Ireland, possibly the best city ever concieved.

[@SONGABUNDANCE128]

I ADORE CHICAGO! MY SOUL CITY!....

[@whateverlolawants]

Great video! The camerawork is steady and the editing is well-done. I love what you've captured. Chicago is a great place to visit (I live in Indy, 3 hours away, and usually find myself there at least once a year.) I just ate at Pizza Due (shown at the end of the video) in August!

[@orlyyarlynowai]

Man, I had forgotten that American Gothic is at the Art Institute. I must have skipped that wing/room the last time I was there (too busy checking out the new addition and the temporary exhibits). Also, you made me remember how awesome The Field Museum was when I was young (and undoubtedly still is), and how many years ago my last Cubs (or Sox) game was. Great video, particularly 2:20 - 2:48, for a wonderful song.

[@adrocknlil]

great footage, looks like you guys did alot. i recommend going in the summer, its almost a diff city

[@peanutstheelephant]

I don't know why, but for some reason this song reminds me of saving people from zombies.

[@derrickclark5510]

I love this city!!!

[@eurekis]

I just arrived from Chicago and Sufjan Stevens was soundtrack while I was there! Nice choice for your nice video! ;)

[@shypinkbeatle311]

Chicago in the fall/wintertime is one of the most beautiful places in the entire world. I make sure to take the train in at least a few times throughout the fall and winter to just walk.

[@koreancardboard]

Greatest city in the world! :)

[@RossGayTM]

I love Chicago!!!

[@whateverlolawants]

Oh, and the bean is fun when it rains! The water rolls down in zig-zags and people hide under it!

[@ThaatJosh]

great job on the video

[@patchybeardboy]

that's exactly what i thought the first time i heard this song lol

[@beatlesandcoffee]

I've never been to the U.S. but the first place i would want to go is Chicago....dont know why..but it looks quite nice...with the statues.

[@Rafaelighty]

Id´be so glad to make virtual friends and share our experiences, our day-by-day events- the life style in general here and there. Hugs to everyone. God be with you all!

[@melinawhoever]

ahhh this made me miss chicago so much!

[@BustedHeart]

Does anybody know what is the instrument that is used for the last solo of the song? it sounds really cool, probably a synthe, but it sounds so distorted and raw.

[@dentii21]

nice mix of 'home video' and edited/synced stuffed. and thanks to tthe wo willing subjects. stu uk

[@AgesxsegA]

my favorite metropolis.

[@ofz2222]

great video!!

[@Momentospresentes]

Quiero ir a Chicago!!!

[@solidcrackerVII]

it might be a keyboard or a piano of some sort. i think this because i like this artist named martin dosh who plays keyboard in all of his songs and well the solo and his keyboard sound similar.

[@hailtothevictorz]

A shame that was cut off toward the end, probably the greatest song on the LP.

[@DeutschWish]

wonderful city, I live near it. May I ask where you traveled from? :] This video is very well done.

[@aidrianblue77]

Cities Americans would LEAST like to live in 2010,from USA Today: 1.New York 2.Detroit 3.Los Angeles 4.CHICAGO 5.Houston 6.Miami 7.Washington 8.San Francisco 9.Dallas 10-11.Phoenix 10-11.New Orleans

[@oven1111]

Has anyone else noticed that this song starts to sound like the Cure's Close to Me at 2:25

[@Ritsel12727]

Haha, nice done mate!

[@Rafaelighty]

thanks...

[@DarthYoungling]

Burbs!!! Lol. But my parents were south siders.

[@comistores]

wow. good job

[@oncewuzblonde]

i heard he was doing just christmas albums now

[@aidrianblue77]

In which cities do Americans want to live in 2010?From USA Today: 1.New York 2.San Diego 3.Las Vegas 4.Seattle 5.San Francisco 6.Los angeles 7-8.Nashville 7-8. Atlanta 9.Denver 10.Boston

[@NeonRainCloud]

best city ther is!

[@derrickclark5510]

True fax!!!

[@PepeLeehay]

Feels.

[@vdmerwe]

I LOLD yes, I'm lying...

[@Rafaelighty]

One of my dreams in life is getting to know that city...I love the contrast between the high buildings and Lake Michigan, but I´m afraid of couples things I listended about people from there: they don´t like Latins...is it true? Another doubt: Is Lake Michigan´s water salty? Do people take bath in it in the summertime? Hugs to everyone.

[@NBBisLOVE5]

hahahahahaa nice.

[@BoochMarie0816]

@LIGHTRONIX Dude, I live in the "rural farm land" in Northern Illinois. A LOT longer than 10 mins. Try an hour and a half on a good day.

[@solidcrackerVII]

half handed cloud sounds a bit like this. probly because he used to be part of sufjan steven's band.

[@SarisaT]

Chicago :)

[@kliszeo]

Chicago ftw!

[@Lafayettebluesman]

@JohnRhysMusician Yeah, I think it's the politics that give us a bad reputation. (they are pretty bad) But it really is an extremely unique thing to be a chicagoan. I am honored.

[@dylanhardy182]

ERH i miss chicago:(

[@mikep85]

Nice video. Love this song. Too bad you cut off the end of it.

[@Ntrendguy]

@TheArthurAndersen True but it does not mean everyone likes to party (myself included)

[@jackfn1234]

@peanutstheelephant could not agree anymore. well put

[@vdmerwe]

OMG MY COUSIN THOUGHT THE SAME THING ABOUT THIS SONG. {he was mentally ill}

[@TheCrUnK]

@coudu8ed No doubt

[@kesew22]

i think i saw ferris bueller.

[@hellonieman]

one two three four five!

[@Rafaelighty]

Oh yes...I should really know how to use some expressions before posting them...Of course people take bath in Chicago. Sorry. I just got confused about "taking bath" and "swimming", as both of them sound alike in my language (Portuguese). Changing of subject, I´d really like to meet some people from that wonderful city, even only on the web, by Windows Live or kind of it.

[@Rafaelighty]

I meant seems to be a nice city, as I don´t know it, YET.

[@borpscampson]

to be honest ive never heard/seen a song in 10/8 timgallant is right with 5/4 you can hear the "trip-a-let 4 5"

[@phrozen17]

Haha your right. check out 1:40

[@kyliodatter]

The person was asking if there were other bands like this... Sufjan Stevens is NOTHING like Iron and Wine, though they are still good.

[@dumbartist]

Chicago is far from boring.

[@coudu8ed]

not from there but, chicago, prob the single greatest city in america

[@borygo1985]

I want go to Chicago.I have money,i have famili in Chicago,but i dont have visa and finish my dream of Ilinois:((

[@iplaybaritone]

sounds like an electric guitar...thats my guess

[@kyliodatter]

This sounds NOTHING like Iron and Wine. This is much more musically complex.

[@bballaman92]

that is the whole song its just short

[@edbingey]

Erm...what's the redhead doing at 1:40.....;)

[@jenniferashley99]

I have yet to hear one good song when viewing Chicago here on KZbin..WHY?

[@Ntrendguy]

@eantquox

[@Rafaelighty]

well...I guess people from Latin America, isn´t it?

[@LLukAAs08]

1:40 is she...?

[@andrew39611]

new york city is so better. its just probably cuase i live in nyc lol

[@josefrankfert]

wheres the hood parts of chicago thats one of the parts chicago is known for the windy city of alcapone Almighty Saint WorlDk

[@adrocknlil]

ah yes, but i think you meant Hispanic people. no worries though, chicago does not hate hispanic people. chicago is a melting pot of many wonderful cultures so dont listen to what others say. i guess you'll have to experience it for yourself.

[@adrocknlil]

haha what the hell is latins?

[@godzilla1077]

There's more than that in Chicago. If you think that's all that's there is, you have close minded way of thinking little man.

[@comdragon90]

Is this just me but is this song just very boring. IDK it's just it has no umphh. Has no sounds i never heard before. I like that in a song.

[@Benjaminrcd]

hash caddy I'm sorry to hear that but this song is just so great it is just so lovely and dearing for the windy city. I mean the voice that is silky smooth that flows with the instruments, the vibrant subtle references to history, anti-marketing messages, and the composition of the song just makes it so great. I hope you have the time to realize the greatness of this song.