CHICAGO CARLESS

(Photo: The photo Devyn was shooting the instant that we met. Credit: Looper, Devyn’s downtown Chicago photoblog.)

Sunday, March 26, at 12:09 p.m. marks the one-year anniversary of the day I accidentally met the man of my dreams — on a street corner, wholly by accident, and entirely in spite of myself. It happened at Fullerton and Clark. It happened just like in the movies. And I thank God every day that it happened to me.

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I am a kimchi chigae crack ho. Give it to me three squares a day. Blend it and stick it in an IV. Hell, just let me drag my futon over to Kimball and the Kennedy and I’ll just live in Chicago Food Corp. Fie on you, dear Korean friend (I - don’t - friggin’ - look - like - Margaret - Cho) Rozella, for showing me how to make this traditional Korean stew. Fermented Chinese cabbage has taken over my life. But, damn, it’s so good. No, really.

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(Cover of a transit survey appearing this month under downtown high-rise residential doors.)

The City of Chicago is surveying downtown residents about their travelling habits. Why? To spend tens of millions of dollars to build an exclusive bus transitway between…Union Station, Mag Mile, and Navy Pier. Hmm.

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According to an article in today’s Chicago Tribune, ne’er-do-well developer J. Paul Beitler’s plan to plant a 2,000-foot TV antenna in the middle of Streeterville is no more. In the face of stiff opposition by local residents and limp interest from area broadcasters, the plan was shelved in favor of a more-prosaic (though likey no sexier) 58-story condo plan.

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If screw-ups like this didn’t put my life in danger I swear I’d find them funny. Marina City mismanagement reached a new low Tuesday night after a fire broke out in a unit on the 45th floor of East Tower. Fire fighters were dousing the flames, the smell of smoke was filling the upper floors, and 60 stories of elevators were taken out of service. The evening’s biggest casualty: our fire-life safety plan. Because although emergency speakers are installed on every floor, not one Marina City staffer ever bothered to use them to actually tell residents that their building was on fire.

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