Politics
Monday, the Laborer's Union International of North America (LiUNA) is hosting a 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel & Towers. I'll be live-blogging from the event.
Politics
I don't have an answer to the question of whether the Chicago Children's Museum should be allowed to build a new home for itself in the Daley Bicentennial Plaza section of Grant Park. But I do think the possibility deserves to be debated and not cut off at the knees as it seems the editorial board o
Getting Around
According to the recently released National Transportation Safety Board report on last year's rush-hour Blue Line derailment that injured more than 150 innocent transit riders, under Frank Kruesi's leadership the CTA falsified most Blue Line track inspections--or simply didn't bother to do them.
Life
Friends of mine in the airline biz always turn their collective nose up at even the mere mention of NYC-based discount carrier jetBlue. I haven't the foggiest idea why. Especially since the only other budget alternative from Chicago is Southwest's crappy codeshare partner, ATA.
Getting Around
So are we all supposed to get on our knees and thank Governor Blagojevich for riding in at the last minute and potentially saving us innocent Chicagoans from 'CTA Doomsday?' Especially since he helped create the Illinois public transit funding emergency in the first place?
Backstory
It's been six years since we lost the New York that was, but today we all remember. Yet, it's also important to move on. Life is for the living, after all. So here's to life after--and on--9/11.
Backstory
Last month, I accepted the job offer of my life in New York City. Today, I turned it down. At long last, I admit it. I am hopelessly in love with Chicago. I'm staying right here.
Chicago
adlerworst.jpg [http://www.chicagocarless.com/images/adlerworst.jpg] (Photo: Seventy-five years folks. Can we dust the exhibits now?) The folks at the Adler Planetarium [http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/] are surely mad. According to their visitor map, the septuagenarian hemisphere on the lake is ai
Backstory
I don't remember being here, yet nothing ever changes here. I've spent almost four weeks staying with friends in New York City; it's almost as if I've already moved and settled in. So much has changed in the four-and-a-half years that I've been away. Funky neighborhoods have become Establishment whi
GLYNY Again
I turned 37 this month in my hometown. And while August continues to merge into seemingly one exceptionally and unexpectedly long trip to Gotham to interview and apartment hunt, it was turning 37 that I found most informative. Purely for narcissistic reasons. Essentially I was smoked.
Life
The new community-based environmental-justice group, Neighbors Project, asked if they could tell you about the Car-Free Block Party they're throwing in Lakeview this Saturday. You know they had me at 'car-free,' so here's their story.
Life
Before I left NYC in 2003, I knew the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to be somewhat less than a class act. I'm surprised at how short my memory has become during my tenure on the shores of Lake Michigan. Here's the story of the worst interview I've had--or haven't had--in ye