Rare Kam Buckner L. I’d sooner be forgotten a thousand times than have a highway named after me.
Here’s a better idea. In 2020 we renamed (Stephan A.) Douglas Park to (Anna and Frederick) Douglass Park.
Let’s change (Andrew) Jackson Park to (Jesse) Jackson Park.
Depending on how and what you count, this leaves like 3-8 sit-down restaurants in the entire neighborhood. Glad we solved crime in the 1990s by making it impossible to get a liquor license in the neighborhood, though, that seems to have worked well.
Every day is Chicago Day for me. Oh, and I hate St. Patrick's Day too.
Look, I understand this and, at least theoretically, I support it. But I really think Britain is underestimating the benefits of keeping their rich twits contained in one building where only one of them can speak at a time. At this point the House of Lords may be a force of harm reduction.
When I indulge my nostalgia, I skip right past the area codes to alphanumeric exchanges. RO-4 FTW.
"Diner Dinner Breakfast"
a typewriter poem
by Eric Plattner
from the Chicago Athletic Association!
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8108871...
I am not onboard with calling today, 3/12, "Chicago Day" due to the Area Code; it's only Central Chicago Day, at best. It's been decades since 312 was the whole of Chicago. Pi Day is fine, Star Wars Day is a goofy pun, but c'mon, let's leave the invented holidays to Hallmark.
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Inside: Mark De Rosa's incompetence, Andre Dawson's Hall of Fame plaque, Iran is out of the World Cup, the worst Kobe fanboy ever, when things are going well, prison for Pete Hegseth, and a tale of sunken treasure.
www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
Think we’ll ever find out the real story of why all those Repub senators showed up in Moscow on 4th of July 2018?
Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
See the problem here?
There’s a first time for everything.
I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military
But do any of these exemplars of eyewear feature terra cotta styling? That’s what your fans need to know!
The next No Kings rally/protest is Saturday March 28
I'm volunteering with the local organizing group's pr efforts and wrote this for it.
It's about the idea of both showing up ... and showing
indivisiblelvb.substack.com/p/why-attend...
This deserves an award for using visuals in data journalism.
Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door
Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
1942
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628
Grazie, Italia.
10/10 no notes for the team Italy bullpen coach. He’s somehow both an Italian guy and a Polish guy from Chicago
I was wondering how long it would take for the stolen victimhood posers to appear. Took longer than I would have bet on.
I think I've cracked maybe the most uncrackable missing player case, that of a player named "Spencer" who made one appearance on June 3, 1872 for the dismal Washington Nationals in a game in Philadelphia. What makes this case so seemingly unsolvable is that Spencer was an alias...
On Monday, it was 70 degrees and everyone was outside enjoying the spring of deception in Rogers Park. Today it is snowing like crazy in my neighborhood.
Outside the box(score) thinking and research! @justmckinney.bsky.social
You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered.
The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim.
From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
