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By Steve Rhodes
Got a column started, got waylaid. Here’s what we do have new so far today:
* Proco Joe Moreno’s Stance Against Chick-fil-A Is Cheap, Hypocritical And Dangerous. Moreno chickens out.
* Here’s To Bobby Too Tuff. Celebrating another Maxwell Street OG.
* Telling Chicago’s Stories. From the ground up.
* Fantasy Fix: Trading Up. Starring a couple White Sox.
Posted on July 25, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
I’ll continue to be under red flag conditions this week as I aim to complete an intensive project on a tight deadline, but I’m going to really try to produce a column today in-between, as well as deliver some other Beachwood material.
Here are a few new offerings today so far:
* Old Days: Lost Chicago. There’s a whole “lost Chicago” genre – rightfully so – and this is the latest, quick entrant, focusing mostly on roller rinks and drive-ins. Also: a link to a site worth perusing.
Posted on July 24, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
Last week’s conditions will still apply this week – on a very tight deadline for a fairly intensive freelance assignment. Posting will be sporadic, but I will try – and I will try to do better than I did Thursday and Friday when I didn’t get much of anything up on the site.
Today, we have some sports offerings to start you off:
* Jim Casey, Cubs Roadie. A retired Greyhound bus driver who didn’t mind logging long hours following his beloved minor league Cubs teams through the sticks to watch the kids he hoped would one day deliver the big team a World Series win is drawing his last breaths, even as the organization that never seemed to love their young ‘uns as much as he did finally starts to build from the ground up. In The Cub Factor.
Posted on July 23, 2012
By Natasha Julius
The Weekend Desk doesn’t take 2 1/2 months to not skate away from our problems.
Market Update
It seems not every initial public offering is warmly received.
Posted on July 21, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
Ditto.
The [Thursday] Papers
I’m working on a project with a tight deadline so posting the rest of this week may be sporadic – I may try to sprinkle posts onto the site during the evenings and over the weekend, so please, dear readers, be patient and adjust accordingly.
We do have a new Beer Thinker from our man on beer, Dan O’Shea: Summer Brew.
And check out these rig rundowns from Premiere Guitar, poached from YouTube, featuring Dave Kilminster, G.E. Smith, and Roger Waters’ guitar tech, filmed behind the scenes at Wrigley Field before The Wall show.
A lot more in the hopper so close to postable I can taste the pixels. Stay tuned, y’all.
Posted on July 20, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
I’m working on a project with a tight deadline so posting the rest of this week may be sporadic – I may try to sprinkle posts onto the site during the evenings and over the weekend, so please, dear readers, be patient and adjust accordingly.
We do have a new Beer Thinker from our man on beer, Dan O’Shea: Summer Brew.
And check out these rig rundowns from Premiere Guitar, poached from YouTube, featuring Dave Kilminster, G.E. Smith, and Roger Waters’ guitar tech, filmed behind the scenes at Wrigley Field before The Wall show.
A lot more in the hopper so close to postable I can taste the pixels. Stay tuned, y’all.
Posted on July 19, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
“The evidence that three companies gave more than $3,500 in gifts to a city worker included thank-you e-mails, expense reports and personal admissions of gift-giving, but the agency that enforces Chicago government ethics found too little proof to punish the firms in question,” the Tribune reports.
“The case was part of the latest quarterly report issued Tuesday by City Hall’s top internal watchdog.
“The former employee, who worked in the since-disbanded Office of Compliance, accepted sporting event tickets and meals from three companies whose contracts the employee managed, according to Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. ‘Despite abundant evidence to the contrary,’ the city Board of Ethics concluded there was insufficient evidence that the companies provided the gifts or the employee accepted them to impose fines, Ferguson wrote.”
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Welcome to Chicago, where our ethics board is merely ironic.
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Sources say they drink PBR at their meetings and wear I ♥ NY t-shirts.
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Board members weren’t available for for comment; they were too busy running from their own shadows.
Posted on July 18, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
Clown state, bro.
1. The ultimate bureaucratic bungle:
Dead so ineligible for services.
Including the service of investigating the cause of your death.
2. Failed Broadway Bank’s Money Wasted On Internet Poker, Drugs.
Well, I wouldn’t say wasted, but yeah, not good.
Posted on July 17, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
The big local news story over the weekend was the Sun-Times’s investigation into the millions of dollars the city is paying to cops on disability leave – some managing to hold down other jobs. I haven’t had time to dig into it, but you can get started on the multi-story package here.
Today, the paper comes back with “10 Days In The Police Academy, 14 Years On Disability.”
Posted on July 16, 2012
By Natasha Julius
We were thinking there might be some actual news to report, but apparently the NCAA doesn’t want to interfere with anyone’s weekend.
Market Update
Don’t worry, Jamie. We’re all worth a little less this week.
Posted on July 14, 2012
