Category: Chicago
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Chicago Gas Prices Hit $3.09
ChicagoGasPrices.com helps me keep a daily tab on the ever increasing toll of a car-worshipping society.
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Chicago Mattress Stores – Sleep City
Just doing a quick vote that if you are looking for an affordable mattress in Chicago to check out Sleep City on Diversey. Don’t go to Mattress Giant (ooh ahh!) – they were really expensive. They even called before the delivery to make sure I was home – and they delivered on time. I got […]
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Chicago Lakeview Commercial Space: For Rent
Has anyone noticed the increasing number of ‘space for rent’ signs in Lakeview? The strip of buildings that houses the coffeeshop is almost half vacant. There are plenty of signs on Halsted and Belmont and Broadway that all say ‘space for rent’. I’m wondering if store rents have outpaced what merchants are willing to pay. […]
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Sven's Rooftop Adventure
Sven chronicles a nice rooftop pleasure mishap: C’mon kids. Gather ’round. Come listen to the story about how Sven’s neighbors found out he was gay. One day, Sven decided he wanted to lay out on his faaaaahbulous rooftop deck. Catch some of that cancerous sun that the gays love so much. [Continue reading…]
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Realtor: Chicago Lakeview Home Prices Soar
Tara sent me this tidbit from Realtor Magazine: The Lakeview neighborhood on the north side of Chicago was once considered an affordable alternative to the Lincoln Park area to the south, but not anymore. Some single-family homes in Lakeview are now selling for more than $2 million, says Charles Huzenis, president of Jameson Realty Group, […]
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Hottest Day in Last Decade
Wow – yesterday was the hottest day in Chicago for the past decade. Over 104 degrees.
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Cook County Board Embroiled in ‘Sodomy Games' Resolution
The Cook County Board voted unanimously in support of the Gay Games – thanking sponsors Harris Bank and Kraft foods. Then the Illinois Family Institute – why is it always something with FAMILY in the title – got wind of it and convinced the Republican members of the Board to withdraw their names from the […]
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Sven Gets Mugged
What the hell is wrong with people: I remember thinking, "Why are they wearing their shirts over their faces? I would hardly consider that fashion forward. Is there a SARS epidemic going on?" In retrospect, how dumb. First, I heard the footsteps. I turned around only to get hit in the head. It all happened […]
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ChicagoCrime.org
I just added a new link under Chicago weather that links to the ChicagoCrime.org profile for my neighborhood so you can see what crimes have gone down in my neck of the woods. This is an amazing site that extracts crime rates, types, locations and dates from publicly available databases. In the future this will […]
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Reminder: Andy and Jake Chaperone Carrie's Prom
Just a reminder that Jake and I are chaperones at the prom for Scarrie!, a musical parody of Carrie created by the nutter-butter David Cerda.