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Article: Vive la difference for our Paris Towns not too similar--but 'we have French onion soup sometimes'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 25, 2003
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PARIS--Oh, how they love to take to the streets here. They'll
march for 2, 21/2 hours at a time, sometimes. The mayor of Paris
leads the mob from atop a three-wheel motorcycle.
"I'd say we had 150 units last summer," he says. "It was pretty
good."
See, Memorial Day is a big day here in Paris . . . Illinois. That,
and the Honeybee Festival in the fall really brings them out. They
like parades in Paris. So they march.
It's 4,248 miles as the crow flies between Paris, Illinois--home
to 9,077 flag-waving Americans--and Paris, France--home to at least
that many flag-stomping Frenchmen.
In Paris, France, they hang George Bush in effigy, the Frenchmen
fuming over U.S. intentions to war with Saddam.