Getting Around
No one could be more thrilled than I am about the end to the CTA operating funding impasse. For transit users like me, the draconian cuts threatened in January would have essentially confined me to my neighborhood--and most likely have pushed me and many others out of Chicago.
Media
What on earth is Bill Adee thinking? The Chicago Tribune's associate managing editor in charge of online operations announced today yet another slew of changes for the paper's website. If anyone misses 1990s-era websites, have no fear: the Trib has your back with these changes. From a clunky Times f
Life
Why are Chicago museums so inconsistent? It's always either feast or famine, a balance of the sublime and the craptastic. Sure, we have the world-class Art Institute, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, heck, I'll even throw in the Chicago History Museum and National Museum of Mexican Art. But why must we
Backstory
Sometimes in life we don't learn our lessons until a little too late. Last weekend, my boyfriend brought me back to reality. This weekend, I'm afraid we're saying good-bye, and I wonder how much of that is my fault and how much is simply to do with a love that went faster than maybe it should have.
Media
Today, the controversial editor of the Sun-Times Opinion page resigned. After the battle I had with her in these pages over remarks she made at a Chicago Publicity Club event in December, I'm not surprised.
Politics
Anyone who's followed Cook County politics since Todd Stroger took the reins of the most powerful county in Illinois from his formerly ailing (finally deceased) father knows that Stroger-fils doesn't have the greatest grasp on the realities of his job. But, hey, he's the President.
Chicago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren will go to the grave--and take the former Marshall Field's with him--before he and his team get a clue about how to treat Chicagoans.
Life
Chicago may have the worst mail service in the nation, but I think I've identified where that service is worst of all. In my experience, no other post office in the city mines quite the depths of suckiness that River North's Fort Dearborn does.
Politics
The Chicago Reporter reveals that the Chicago Housing Authority 'Plan for Transformation' may have helped disenfranchise thousands of Windy City public-housing voters. And the CHA is taking no responsibility for the problem.
Life
I am in love. Suddenly, astonishingly, sickeningly so. Know that first and the rest of this post goes down a lot easier for the less romantically inclined among you.
Media
On Friday, I opined about the deliberate lack of editorial direction on the Commentary page of the Chicago Sun-Times. My criticism stemmed from comments made by Sun-Times Opinion editor, Cheryl Reed, at a Publicity Club of Chicago luncheon last Wednesday. Now Reed is claiming she was misquoted. I do
Media
I just heard the Chicago Sun-Times Opinion page editor, Cheryl Reed, speak at a Publicity Club of Chicago luncheon. Based on what she had to say, someone in the audience asked a pointed question, one my entire table was thinking: What's the use of an opinion page when the editor admits they only wri