Actually, I said Illinois because that's where we live now ... but I was born in Omaha, Neb.; moved from there as a baby and generally think of Minnesota as my home (that's where all my mom's relations live and where I lived part of my childhood whenever my dad wasn't stationed somewhere else). Favorite big cites are Baltimore, MD where we lived from 50-53; Mannheim, Germany from 47-50; and, Sendai, Japan (55-56).