A Chicago Blog

Don’t forget, if you want to buy anything, leave Cook County and avoid being raped at the register. Lucky for Todd, the price of gas has gone up. It’s no longer worth driving to the suburbs for a carton of cigarettes and groceries. You can only really break even if your buying a car or [...]

Reader Dan asks why I haven’t commented on the Supreme Court Gun Decision. To which, I have absolutely no response. It is unacceptable. So here goes.
This decision is along time coming. City-wide gun bans are clear attack on 2nd Amendment rights. Period. Mayor Daley is vowing to “fight” attempts to invalidate the Chicago ban. In [...]

Wow! Even the Chicago Fed is blogging.

John Kass is on the case. (I didn’t know he was such a damn Sox fan)

This is not the first time my train has caught fire. Anyone have any idea of why this happens? (PS, My camera work is pathetic in this video)

CBS2 has a great feature on actors from Chicago or who have worked here significantly. Steve Colbert? Really?

Yeah, that hurts. If you haven’t seen the repay of Soriano getting hit in the hand by a fastball, it’ll make you whince. The question is not whether the Cubs can get by without him for six weeks. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the Cubs’ talent is far to deep. One injury simply [...]

In a lot of ways the American electorate, and punditocracy, are fraught with contradictions. One of which is that we want presidential candidates to be role models and to “do the right thing,” but we want them to look cool doing it.  I’m no Obama fan, but if he had been caught riding around without [...]

And is anyone really going to miss him? Check out his game stats from 2007:

Looking for Chicago City Employee Salaries? The Better Government Association has them. I sure wish they’d let me download the whole database in CSV. These user-friendly online databases are hard to deal with.
[Hat tip: CapitolFax]