“It feels like Scarlett leaving Tara,” Winfrey said in December before the Oprah Winfrey Network’s launch. “When I first flew into Chicago on Labor Day 1983 to audition for ‘A.M. Chicago,’ I remember thinking when I left the city that if I don’t get the job I’m gonna find a way to get back because I just love the city,” she said. There will two difficult moments when “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ends, she said, saying goodbye to her viewers and saying goodbye to Chicago. “Because it couldn’t have happened without Chicago,” she said. “It couldn’t have happened without Chicago.” Winfrey came to Chicago in 1984 to WLS-TV’s morning talk show, “A.M. Chicago.” A month later the show was No. 1 in the market. A year later it was renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”