America's most sinful cities

Talk about a misnomer.

If the “Seven Deadly Sins” are all that deadly, why is it so enlivening to stuff our faces in Grant Park, admire ourselves in South Beach, bet the house at Caesars Palace, surf ESPN channels in Indianapolis, hate the Giants at Eagles games, flip someone the bird on Michigan Avenue and casually copulate in Oregon?

A saintly town neglectful of every sinful habit (is there such a hell?) is duller than Brussels.

So to the following lively U.S. cities -- don’t go changing on our behalf.

You’re imperfect just the way you are.

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1. Gluttony: Chicago

According to The Daily Meal, Chicago’s 3,500 fast food joints, nearly 4,000 restaurants and 25.2 percent obesity rate make it the eighth most gluttonous city in America -- behind places like Houston, Dallas and Columbus, Ohio.

But don’t be fooled. The preeminence of food-glorious-food (and not just staples like deep-dish pizza, cheesboigahs and Sears Tower-sized ribs, but everything else) in the former “slaughterhouse to the world” and current home of the world’s largest food festival (among a turnstile of others including two separate Armenian food fairs) remains unrivaled.

Sure, New York may have a few more Serbian restaurants. San Francisco may sport more foodie attitude.

But would either of those cities shed real tears after last year’s closing of the Mercantile Exchange’s vaunted pork belly futures market? Or have the cojones to launch a hit new food event called "Baconfest" that sold out within five minutes?

We think not.

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