Earlier today, at around 8:00 PM, I was walking Lakeview, through the part that, depending on who you ask, may or may not be part of Boystown [Note](it depends on whether you count Halsted Street or the entire area around the historic Chicago Pride Parade route). As I crossed Belmont and kept walking north on Broadway, past the Walgreens, I noticed a ( Read more... )

On Sunday, the 46th Chicago Pride Parade made its way through Uptown, Lakeview and Lincoln Park community areas. The parade route changed in many ways since it was moved to Lakeview in its second year, but one thing remained true - the heart of the parade still lies where the second parade started, along the stretch of Halsted Street between Grace ( Read more... )

Free Comic Book Day has been around since the early 2000s. On that day, comic book publishers put together special comics (usually containing previews of their upcoming titles) that are completely free. The idea is to have something that potential customers who don't know much about comics would get a taste of what the publishers (and the comic ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, Chicago Sun-Times published a story about a study of Chicago violent crime by Yale professor Andrew Papachristos. The study looked into several things, but the part that got most attention were the parts looking at violent crime rates in Chicago community areas ( as you may recall from an earlier post, community areas are similar, but ( Read more... )

Like so many of my short stories, this started out as a throwaway line in another story. It takes seventeen years before the rest of the Urban Legends stories, when Dan, Hilly and Jas were months away from going to college, before their lives changed dramatically in ways they never expected. if you read He Moves in Mysterious Ways and Still My Ward ( Read more... )