On Wednesday, Chicago mayor Richard Daley honored Oprah Winfrey by naming a block in front of her Harpo Studios “Oprah Winfrey Way.”

“Your presence in Chicago has been a gift,” the mayor told Winfrey, 57, at the unveiling ceremony, adding that she is “a great ambassador for our city.”

Winfrey declared the honor “better than an Oscar or an Emmy.”

“It is really just a full circle, miracle story,” said Winfrey, “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.”

Oprah will end her daytime talk show on May 25.
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