How you know when summertime in the Chi has come to an end?

When the corner guys stop selling water and start selling skull caps and socks.

In case you don't realize how Chicago you are.... you know it when:
You used to own a Tweety bird towel jacket (for me it was Taz because I was a tomboy, and his attitude matched mine)
You hum to tune to "bang bang bang skeet skeet skeet"
You drive to Indiana to get gas
You've ever referred to something as "cold" or "raw" or a girl as a "busty" or a "bustdown"
When you don't have nothing to do on a Saturday night in the summer time you go down to the Lake front
You go to the skating rink, not to skate but to juke (and you know what juke is if you're really from Chicago)
Your favorite events of the summer are the Taste (only on July 3) and the Bud Billiken Parade (and Summer Dance at Grant Park)
If you ever used to say salty, lame, on my momma, hecky naw, raw, treated, or remember crucial conflict
You went to "grammar school" not elementary school.
When everybody meet you that's not from the Chi, they say you sound "country". My ass is NOT country.
You wear "gym shoes" (GYM SHOES not sneakers. If you're really from Chicago you know you ain't never called them sneakers til the hypebeast)

If you got any ...other than the Empire carpet commercial or Peter Francis Geraci's ass.... ADD ADD ADD