CHICAGO CARLESS

(Photo: A skyline I can live with. Credit: Looper.)

You really can’t go home again. Not that I was jonesing to, with all the recent fuss I’ve made about preferring these Lake Michigan shores to Gotham’s piece of the Atlantic seaboard, where I’m from. But a few days away from Chicago earlier this month, spent in New York, really drove the point home.

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As I sit here in Newark Airport waiting to head back to Hogtown from a whirlwind visit to my hometown, I think the official 7 Days @ Minimum Wage press release says it all

Press Release: November 7, 2006–Election Day

AFL-CIO/ACORN Minimum Wage Campaign Celebrates Resounding Success With Ballot Initiative Wins in AZ, CO, MO, MT, NV and OH

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(Photo: Winter, just around the bend. Credit: Looper.)

Or, It’s Just Weather, Dammit! Much as I like her column, there are two times of year I just can’t condone Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich: the beginning and end of Daylight Saving Time. And judging by the recent return of Standard Time last weekend, it was no surprise to read Schmich’s latest, by-now hackneyed rant on Chicago winter in the pages of the Trib (”Only time will deliver us from dark of winter“).

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