On their OWN.

Bosom friends,

it's officially the end of an era.

It's a wrap for Harpo Studios in Chicago. 

The facility, which Oprah Winfrey opened in 1990 to house her talk show empire, helped turn Chicago into a bustling television center and the West Loop into a resurgent urban neighborhood. But on Tuesday, she came to Chicago to tell employees that Harpo was closing for good.
Production is migrating to the West Coast, four years behind Winfrey, who left town to start her own cable network, OWN, in 2011. The work is expected to wind down in phases, leaving about 200 staffers out of a job and Chicago's place in the television industry diminished.

There you have it.

Mighty Oprah is done and dusted with the Windy City.

She did a lot for Chicago and a lot Chicago did for her. There is no doubt about that.
Oprah personally addressed the remaining employees of Harpo Studios with an emotional speech.
She thanked them and told them the decision did not come lightly. She reminisced about 25 years in the building but said that from a business standpoint, it made more sense to consolidate everything under one roof in Los Angeles.

There you have it again.

It's all well and good until it does not make business sense anymore.

The days of The Color Purple are long gone.

The Color Green (money) is much more en vogue every single season of the year.

Ciao for now.