It was August 1998. I’d been living in my “garden”-level apartment on the Far North Side of…
Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss
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This may or may not be news to anyone here, but it was news to me. At…
I know I’m one of the only Chicagoans paying attention to the Stanley Cup finals this year…
Barely underway for four hours now, the Insert-Hyperbolic-Name-Here Blizzard of 2011 is already having deleterious effects on both of Chicago’s baseball teams.
On the north side, the Tribune’s “Chicago Weather Center” page reports early damage to the Home of the Cubs:
A section Wrigley Field’s roof was blown off shortly after 6PM. Some of the debris landed in the intersection of Addison and Clark. Police are attempting to clean up the debris.
(To the tune of John Cooper Clarke’s classic, “Evidently Chickentown.”
Warning: Foul Language Ahead.)
On February 28, 2005, almost exactly two blocks from my apartment, two people, a man and a woman, were killed in the basement of a fine, century-old wood-frame house on the North Side of Chicago. Both had sustained .22-caliber bullet wounds to the head. The victims were the husband and the mother of a United States district court judge, who had discovered the bodies upon returning home from work.
It is a scientific fact that every other person under the age of 30 in Chicago (and…
This is the traditional season for everyone to spend money on things nobody really needs or wants….
Charlie Chaplin made just one motion picture in Chicago, but that was enough to get an auditorium…
Estragon: I can’t go on like this. Vladimir: That’s what you think. As a professional editor and…
“Them is Chicago hawks! OK? Them the Blackhawks!”
Peregrine falcons nesting on the (grand old, shuttered, sleeping) Uptown Theatre, plus commentary.
Patrick and I had barely settled in at a table on the far left of the room,…
I haven’t been to Carol’s Pub for a decade, but it will always be the emotional naval…