This is another one of those posts I've been meaning to write for a while, and I figure I better write it now, before the news cycle ramps up again.

My mom moved to Chicago back in early May 2021. May 9, which Russia and some other ex-Soviet countries mark as Victory (in Europe) Day, which was... interestingly auspicious. This was something she ( Read more... )

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Back on July 4, I wrote about how, even though Chicago beaches were officially closed, it wasn't enforced in any practical way, and questioned the wisdom of even having the closure on the books.

The next evening, I visited Loyola Beach - and saw the police car parked smack in the middle of it.


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Back when the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois started imposing stay-at-home restrictions to try to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, people would congregate on the Lakeshore Trail (which, as the name implies, follows most of the Chicago portion of the shore of Lake Michigan) and many lakefront parks and beaches. Worried about social ( Read more... )

This post has been in the works for a while. I was originally going to call it "the slow death of the Chicago Writing Alliance," but... it looks like its slow, painful decline has reached its logical endpoint. The remaining members are pulling the plug - but not before giving it one last hurrah with the final Fifth Wednesday live reading, which is ( Read more... )

For the past few months, I've seen plenty of social media ads, bus shelter ads and articles talking up the Chalk Howard Street festival. Professional artists and regular folks would have a chance to use chalk to draw whatever they can on the block of Howard Street east of the eponymous 'L' station, at the heart of the Juneway Terrace - the ( Read more... )

When I heard last Thursday that Uncharted Books, a bookstore at the heart of Logan Square neighborhood, will soon be moving to Andersonville - just not just anywhere in Andersonville, but across the intersection from the iconic Women & Children First feminist bookstore - more than anything, I was just confused ( Read more... )

So, at some point between 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, the management posted notices at all entrances, exists and other strategic locations throughout the building that there will be "financial walkthrough inspection" starting this Wednesday morning. That there will be an inspection of random apartments. And googling the last two words led to this:

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