I was lucky enough to attend Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park. It was both dull—I could have watched CNN at home, and that’s what I did for most of the rally—and awe-inspiring. How often does it happen that so many people come together to celebrate something other than a sports championship? The number [...]
Lately I’ve been reading a history of Chicago, Chicago: Crossroads of American Enterprise1. It’s a popular history, published in 1944, and it follows the style and approach that you’d expect of a book of that vintage. The prose tends towards a purplish hue at times, and “man” is used as a synonym for “people.” But [...]
So I finally fulfilled a delayed plan and flew out to the east coast to visit friends and sightsee. Stops were made in NYC and Boston, and I gave Amtrak’s express train between the two a test (verdict: fast). It was good, as always, to spend some time in cities other than Chicago, noting the [...]
From the You Learn Something New Every Day dept: The ultimate sources—the headwaters, if you will—of two of Chicago’s biggest players in the good-things-to-drink market are located on the same block. Intelligentsia’s roasting plant and Goose Island’s main brewery are both on the 1800 block of Fulton Street.
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