Also, killed.
That really sucks
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-pigeonman_20dec20,0,7325168.story

Oscar Meyer, the legendary purveyor of meats currently resides at 5800 N. Ravenswood in Rosehill Cemetary. Hey! that’s right by my house! Montgomery Ward and John G. Shedd un-live there too!
Old Mayor Daley is in Worth at Holy Sepulchure…I’ve driven by it hundreds of times and never known that. For some reason I assumed […]

Well, it appears that enough people bitched about this (including the mayor of Chicago) to cause BP to rethink its plan to expand its refinery in Indiana. They’re still going to expand it but now they’re saying it won’t increase the volumes of mercury and ammonia that they dump into the lake.
Chicago Tribune Story
So […]

I have a formula that governs my response when a merchant gets my goat. Minor incidents such as a restaurant fucking up my order or a rude clerk at the supermarket result in a 3 to 6 month boycott, depending on the severity of the infraction.
Today I add a business to the list of places […]

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Apparently a developer wants to tear this down so they can build a Walgreens in it’s spot.
The more I think about it the more I realize how little I care. If you care you can hit the link at the top of the post.

I saw this on Wired. I think it might have come from the Chicago Tribune but I’m too lazy to log into their site to look.

At about noon on the Summer Solstice (that’s today, FYI) airplanes on the southwestern approach to Chicago Midway Airport (MDW) cast a shadow that passes exactly through the White Castle restaurant (and subsequently the intersection) at 79th and Harlem.
I don’t think any cult activity is centered on that White Castle though. Occultists are offended by […]

I live in the city of Chicago and all of my relatives live in the suburbs. Sometimes when they see me they ask “so how do you like living downtown?”
Often I dispense with the explanation that Chicago has neighborhoods and only a tiny fraction of those neighborhoods comprise what’s correctly known as “Downtown.” What my […]

Just what we need, 1200 more condos in an ugly-ass building which is, by the way, way too tall to be placed at the lake shore. The people in the building behind it who probably paid 20K extra for a “lake view” are screeeeeewed.

CHICAGO—Mere weeks after his unusual mid-March graduation from Northwestern University’s School of Law, Shaun Daley, son of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, was named chairman of the Illinois Nepotist Party Monday.”I’m thrilled and humbled to be chosen to lead one of Chicago’s most beloved and respected political organizations,” said Daley, who was sworn in at […]