I say "Chicago" - I think "Mafia",
I say "Mafia" - I think "Russia"...
... that's just a joke :-)

My Russian friends, my wife Natasha, and I went to this city
to visit our friend Alexei, who got his post-doc in the University of Chicago. Over the three days we spent there in March of 2001, we had a chance to see that it's a nice city with a nice little downtown and a great University.

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