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It's not important per se––it's just that the orangeness of the night light is very iconic for anyone who's lived in or spent any time in Chicago. I went to college there, and late-night walks home in a completely ORANGE world are one of my most vivid visual memories.

It gets even stronger on cloudy nights in the winter, when all that orange is just bouncing back and forth between the (reflective) snow and clouds.

Chicago is a much bigger city than Yeovil. Chicago Magazine is a publication that gets most of its readership from Yeovl. The fact that Chicago is far bigger than Yeovil means that changing its lights is a much bigger and harder to revert undertaking than it was for Yeovil. Newness is not the most important thing.

It's isn't important. This is what you dwell on and write about when you find yourself living in paradise and all your actual problems are solved.