King George was in Chicago this morning. You could see the tail of Air Force One from our office building, not to mention the bad-ass helicopters circling the ORD area. Out of curiosity, at lunch I drove down Higgins past one of the runways, and lo and behold: there was AF1, taxiing. It’s a big [...]
March 19, 2006 – 11:11 pm
Ray Meyer was Chicago basketball, long before Michael Jordan. And Coach Ray was one of my earliest role models growing up. My folks had season tickets to DePaul games from before I was born, and some of my earliest memories are of hanging from the railings at Alumni Hall, waiting for my parents to please! [...]
December 7, 2005 – 11:30 am
Students from several Chicago high schools have come together to win a grant from the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority to produce an updated version of Hamlet. Alan McDuffy, an 18-year-old student, wrote the adaptation.
"Hamlet in the Hood" is scheduled to be performed tonight at Alternatives, a nonprofit youth agency on the north side. Wish [...]
November 16, 2005 – 8:44 pm
Every year, there is a day when most Chicagoans wake up and ask themselves, “Why the hell do I live here?”
November 9, 2005 – 7:34 am
Golden Rule Jones has his run-down of the year in Chicago-related fiction. Some of the connections to the Windy City (it is actually very windy here today, by the way) seem a little tenuous to me, but we’ll take what we can get.
I’m a proud Chicagoan, but not so proud to admit I’ve read [...]
October 17, 2005 – 6:01 pm
Aforementioned inferiority complex aside, today has been a good day in Chicago.
I was raised in and around the Windy City, within two South-sider families. Born and bred an American Leaguer by a dad who grew up loving the Indians and Tigers. I can argue rationally for the existence of the designated hitter. I’ve [...]
September 23, 2005 – 3:49 pm
The University of Chicago will hold a public memorial for Saul Bellow next Tuesday (9/27/05) at 4:00.
Speakers scheduled for the event include Mayor Richard Daley; Bellow’s son, Greg; James Wood, senior editor of The New Republic;
Richard Stern, the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in English
Language & Literature; attorney and editor Walter Pozen, and author
Eugene Kennedy.
September 21, 2005 – 7:00 am
And the newest WNBA team is…the Chicago Sky! Yesterday the team announced the new name, logo, etc at an event at the Adler Planetarium.
“We wanted the name to have meaning and capture our dreams,” CEO and President Margaret Stender told the crowd… We set three important criteria for the name. The name and the logo [...]
