Oprah Winfrey has marked the city of Chicago for a long time. Mayor Richard Daley honored her by naming a block in front of her Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way" on Wednesday.
"Your presence in Chicago has been a gift", he told Oprah, adding that she is "a great ambassador for our city .
57-year-old Oprah declared the honor "better than an Oscar or an Emmy".
"It is really just a full circle, miracle story that a little colored girl born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a red dirt road ends up with my name on a street in the greatest city in the world, Chicago", she said.
