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What disgusts JD Vance? An ad trying to smear candidate Amy Acton by digging up the mother who lost custody of Acton after she allowed her to be abused and raped at age 12 by the mom's husband? Nope, "not really my concern." Morally bankrupt scumbag.
chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
OK, I'll bite. Why is Trib suddenly running articles in French? Is the editorial board looking to capture the Quebec separatists market?
I couldn't see anything about it on their website, and the windows are papered over, but the sign is up for Gibson's extending their luxury meat empire to Fulton Market, 925 West, which was announced for a November opening this past August.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/08…
Silver bags ... silver bags - it's pop-up time on the plaza!
Line stretching all the way down Pioneer Court for Kim Kardashian's Update energy drink promotion. Pop into the van to see stuff and have contents of your brain copied to Muse. 'til 5.
drinkupdate.com/pages/our-st…
Silver bags ... silver bags - it's pop-up time on the plaza!
Line stretching all the way down Pioneer Court for Kim Kardashian's Update energy drink promotion. Pop into the van to see stuff and have contents of your brain copied to Muse.
drinkupdate.com/pages/our-st…
In June, Canadian on-line furniture peddler Cozey opened only its third retail outlet beneath the 900 North Michigan garage. Tesla had operated a showroom there since 2017, announced they wanted out in 2023, but was still there in February...
homenewsnow.com/blog/2026/06…
Hope for trapping micro plastics before they can make their way into rivers, lakes and oceans?
share.inquirer.com/uTzrw7
Weirdly enough -and testimony to the far too often absence of civic imagination- it would take nearly a century after Charles Wacker cleared the riverbank of anarchic clutter for Chicago to finally realize the next step of making the river a civic amenity.
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2015…
For the Trib, Robert Loerzel has the great story on how South Water Street, Chicago's Les Halles, its anarchic, smelly wholesale food market, was demolished by Charles Wacker 100 years ago to make way for the double-decker roadway that would bear his name.
chicagotribune.com/2026/10/1…
Why is Chicago hot dog relish neon green? Block Club's Linze Rice tells you all - and maybe a bit more - you need to know.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/10…
Tonight, Monday 10/19 at 6:55 pm CDT, free audio stream of Met Opera's world premiere performance of Missy Mazzoli's Lincoln in the Bardo, from the George Saunders novel. Mattei as Big Abe, Goerke,,Brugger, Blythe, Costanzo, Blue, Nézet-Séguin conducting.
ondemand.metopera.org/radio/…
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White's 1927 Pittsfield Building, named after the city where Marshall Field got his first job. Co-owner Tom Liravongsa talks up his ambitions for the building. Full photoset on Facebook and Threads.
skyscraperguy.com/thepittsfi…
David Brooks, having found a retirement home at The Atlantic, assaults us with an interminable meditation on education that concludes school should be less important and forced national servitude for all. His underlying perspective is revealed in Point 5.
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Another don't miss site on this year's OPH is the Second Presbyterian Church, with its stunning stained glass windows, including the 12,000 piece Tiffany Jeweled window that I got to see being reinstalled after restoration.
200+ sites at the link
openhousechicago.org
Devil's curse? Walking in the chill and drizzle yesterday to get to the Music Box, woke up this morning with a bad cold that will keep me from my usual Open House Chicago rounds. You, on the other hand have a rare chance to see the Uptown auditorium.
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026…
they're not just clogging up sidewalks: now it turns out those cute little bastards are spying on us, as well.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/10…
