As you’re no doubt aware, we’re having some serious sub-arctic temperatures going on here in the Chicago area. Unfortunately I had to venture out this morning to the Mario Tricoci location at Old Orchard to get my hair cut (yes, I know, I’m a DINK, getting a $60 haircut).
Shockingly, the open air mall (seriously, who [...]

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So, I’m a big fan of the Chicago Tribune’s Daywatch email newsletter written by Charlie Meyerson.
One of my favorite things on Friday is to see what Charlie did on the weekly news quiz, and then try to beat (or at least match) his score. So I was pretty disappointed this past Friday when I couldn’t [...]

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Chicago, as seen from AA497 on final approach tonight:

Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the big shoulders.
—”Chicago”, Carl Sandburg

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