A week or so ago, I was watching Chicago Tonight, specifically a piece on Sikia, a brand new, 11-day old “fine-dining” restaurant in Chicago’s impoverished (and often dangerous) Englewood neighborhood.
“Fine-dining” in Englewood? My immediate reaction…one of suspicion. Political suspicion. I mean, I don’t doubt that the restaurant is amazing and the food is excellent. It’s [...]
Did I mention I’m back in Chicago? I am and it’s great to be back! With one exception…
Guess which is from Houston and which belongs in Chicago?
Pretty obvious….Chicago is on the right, with - yes - the highest gas prices in the nation.
How? Why? WHY!?!
Regardless how much as Dick Durbin stresses otherwise, it’s not the [...]
A great video I meant to put up here about a week ago (the time it was first available) but never got to it.
It’s co-worker Eric Odom’s firsthand experience in a recent Chicago cab ride. Check it out below. It’s hilarious. My favorite part follows (although mere text does it no justice):
“The Democratic Party…you [...]
Coming from the CTA Tattler: “Funding woes got you down? Ride the Santa Train!”.
Really?
Riding the Santa Train will help alleviate my CTA-related worries? Supporting a completely unnecessary expenditure — cited in 2004 to cost about $200,000 by then-president Frank Kruesi — will extinguish my concerns of the endless doomsday-bailout-doomsday-bailout cycle?
Or, maybe just inflate them…
Call me [...]
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