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It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region, and investigate.

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When question-asker Laurel Walmsley arrived in Chicago in 2012,

the CTA station announcements helped her settle in to her new city.

This is Roosevelt.

The L kind of gives you cues about how certain street names are pronounced if you don't already know them.

You know, and so things like polina.

Polina.

You're like, huh, really, polina.

But you also sort of notice that the person reading the names doesn't have any sort of

specific, like, Chicago accent.

This is Clark in Division.

And so I was sort of curious about that.

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