Everyone is talking about Kelvin Kiptum's world record, but here is Gabriela Lucie, currently the last place participant in the
@chicagomarathon
. She just passed mile 8 on a 9:09 pace.
USA Today says, "The U.S. has plenty of drinking water -- it's simply in the wrong place."
No, the people who want to drink the water are in the wrong place.
@CollegeFix
Harvard likes to say it trains the leaders of the future. David Hogg has shown a lot of leadership since 17 of his classmates were murdered.
I don't think Midwesterner describes me as accurately as Great Laker. I feel more in common with people from Erie and Buffalo than Des Moines or Kansas City.
If Chicago had ranked choice voting, we would now have a new mayor, who appealed to a broad majority of voters. Instead, we're going to get five weeks of the two most extreme candidates tearing the city apart.
@ProFootballTalk
The Tennessee Oilers were named after Jed Clampett, a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed. One day he was shootin' at sowe food, and up through the ground come a-bubblin' crude.
I just attended Brandon Johnson’s first press conference as mayor. He didn't seem angry at anyone or about anything. Chicago will have to get used to this.
True Chicago story: earlier this week, I was walking down Central Avenue in Austin, carrying an expensive laptop in a satchel. Three Black teenagers approached me on the sidewalk...and walked right past me without doing or saying a thing!
@EWErickson
"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." --
@davidfrum
Howard Schultz is not a self-made billionaire. He was made a billionaire by tens of thousands of baristas working for low wages so he could keep most of
@Starbucks
profits.
I am putting together a map for a Corruption Tour of Chicago. It will include Blago's house, the Burger King Ed Burke tried to shake down, the bank where Patrick Daley Thompson got a loan. What are your favorite spots where a hinky deal went down?
Does anyone have ideas for Chicago-themed Halloween costumes? My favorite: ghost train. Tell the host you'll be arriving in 5 minutes. Then 10 minutes. Then don't show up at the party.
I met a girl at a bar in Chicago and asked for her number.
"Sure," she said. "588-2300."
I never saw her again, but I ended up getting a great deal on carpeting.
Old Fashioned Donuts is one of the few businesses left on The Ave -- the shopping strip on Michigan Avenue between 111th and 115th -- but it alone is worth the trip to Roseland. The best donuts in Chicago or anywhere else on the Great Lakes.
The original Burger King, which opened in 1952 in Mattoon, Illinois, two years before the chain. As a result of a court case, BK is not allowed to sell Whoppers within 20 miles of Mattoon.
@KevinMKruse
@JoelStreicker
If Democrats are the party of slavery, Republicans are the party of abortion. 5 of the 7 justices who voted for Roe v. Wade were Republican appointees.
@jelani9
To all my friends who can't understand why so many people voted for Trump: they didn't do it because they love him, they did it because they hate you.
@ynwatp
Barack Obama walked me out to my car in the parking lot of his law firm, noticed the markings on the windshield, and asked if it had recently been booted. (It had.)
There's also no glen in Glenview, no dale in Hinsdale, and no ridge in Chicago Ridge. Blue Island is not an island, and Mount Prospect is not a mountain.
What we think of as "the Midwest" is too large and diverse to constitute a single region. Chicago is a Great Lakes city -- along with Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Toronto.
One day in 1993, I picked up a
@Chicago_Reader
for the first time. On the cover was Lee Sandlin's "The American Scheme" -- a 20,000 word essay on how the quest for success consumed and killed his father. I decided right then that I wanted to work there.
With today's tour of the Blackstone Library in Kenwood, I have now visited all 77 neighborhoods on behalf of
@chicagomag
. What should I do next, visit all the suburbs?
Our colleague's
@ProPublicaIL
have spent months showing how Cook County's assessor has used property taxes to take from the poor and give to the rich.
And now, the assessor has been kicked out of office.
I just signed a contract to write a book about how Lincoln and Douglas set aside their rivalry to save the Union. The manuscript is due next September.