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312 editor, @chicagomag . Author of Midnight in Vehicle City and Running for Home. Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. tedmcclelland @gmail .com

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I published two books this year. DM me about autographed copies.
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Donald Trump will replace Fidel Castro as the most prominent Russian-backed leader in the Western Hemisphere.
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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.
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If this isn't part of the NASCAR course, it's not really a Chicago race.
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@GhostfactKillah I knew that.
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"You can't even see across it!" -- everyone who's never seen a Great Lake before.
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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.
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@AP McAfee expired before his trial even started.
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"Wow, you can't even see across it!" -- people from the East and West coasts seeing a Great Lake for the first time.
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@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.
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@LauraLoomer @Uber @lyft If you experience discomfort among people of different races or religions, ask your doctor if America is right for you.
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@GuyInYourMFA Here's another: high spirited young woman melts heart of austere high status older man.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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@JoyceCarolOates Would Guess Who's Coming to Dinner still be a profound accomplishment if it starred Jack Lemmon?
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Started out making low-budget improvisational films in Chicago apartments, ended up directing a $1 billion movie.
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Amazing photo of the eclipse in Chicago.
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I won Best Online Column in the City and Regional Magazine Awards for writing about Chicago neighborhoods. Thank you, Hegewisch.
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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.
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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!
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@EWErickson "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." -- @davidfrum
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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.
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SCHULTZ TO DEMS: ‘I’m a Self-Made Billionaire, I Thought that was the AMERICAN DREAM’ | Sean Hannity
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@OchoFisho @JoyceCarolOates No family would stand for their daughter marrying Gilbert Gottfried.
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City dwellers: "I would hate to live in the suburbs where all the houses look the same."
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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?
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@WhiteBunz @hollo I live on the Red Line You live on the Blue I'd change at Lake Street Just to see you
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It turns out the emolument Trump received from a foreign power was the presidency itself. via @Esquire
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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.
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@peddoc63 You lost the popular vote. Learn to deal with public disapproval.
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How I Settled For Your Mother When I Really Wanted To Nail My Best Friend's Wife #HIMYMFinale
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Regulating evil is the entire basis for a code of laws.
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Governor Matt Bevin (2015-2019)
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To all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs...You can't regulate evil...
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Is it really necessary to have an Honorary Casimir Pulaski Way sign on Pulaski Road?
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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.
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The Bears left Decatur in 1921, and the town still isn't over it.
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How I Met the Love of my Life and Couldn't Get Her to Sleep with Me Until She Was 45, Alone and Desperate #HIMYMFinale
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@mattwhitlockPM Young So Broke I Can't Remember the Last Time I Spent Money
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@GuyInYourMFA Sorry, I just watched the Sound of Music again.
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"Real America": code word for small town whites, used to justify the Electoral College's disenfranchisement of urban populations.
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@Asleep2000 This is the most '90s thing I've ever heard of.
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The governor tweeted out my @ChicagoMag article.
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Governor JB Pritzker
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Illinois is the most progressive state in the nation and damn proud of it.
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@_kevinbelt @chicagomarathon 9:09 finishing time. It's a 21 minute pace.
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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.
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"The Real America" is a code word for small town whites, who make up less than 20 percent of America.
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@SherronShabazz @vexedinthecity Or an older white person. "You Don't Have to Be a Star" was a #1 hit in 1977.
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@dcpoll This alone should cost the Republicans Michigan.
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There are only five lakes in North America. Every other body of water is a pond.
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Not even @ChiPartyAunt has blown anything as big as that 20-point lead the @Bears gave up. #CHIvsGB
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@natsukashiizero @realDonaldTrump This, or his entire feed?
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@JoyceCarolOates I'm not second guessing Shakespeare. There must have been a damn good reason he made Othello a Moor.
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AI's interpretation of what Europeans think Wisconsinites look like: 100% accurate.
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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.
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@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.
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@FAIRImmigration I reported this ad for obscene ethno-nationalism
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@ShaneGoldmacher @Azi A member of Congress who worries about how to pay the rent. I finally feel represented.
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@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.
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@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.)
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@RepDeanPhillips @HeideggerFan I don't know why anyone would want to visit the United States now.
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@Hambyman @GuyInYourMFA Rodgers and Hammerstein had that formula down.
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This is my dream road trip: U.S. 41, from Copper Harbor, Michigan, to Miami, Florida.
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Ex-President Obama's block, which he occasionally visits.
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How diverse is Chicago? On the new City Council, a white billionaire is seated between two Latino socialists.
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@jonahshai This guy is looking for it.
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@mattyglesias Also when unionization rates were at their all-time high.
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Next, Paul Simon will sing Wrecking Ball #SNL40
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Big Ten graduates in Chicago, by school: Illinois: 77,873 Northwestern: 37, 326 Purdue: 24,395 Indiana: 22,060 Wisconsin: 17,669 Iowa: 15,930 Michigan State: 14,525 Michigan: 14,167 Ohio State: 5,481 Minnesota: 3,975 Penn State: 3,167 Nebraska: 1,800
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I spent the day at a dead mall.
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@eveewing @DecolonialBlack Post the link to that article. I'll read it next week.
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@jelani9 ...and the bartender says, "You guys don't need to use coasters, because I know you'll never produce a ring."
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We fought a Cold War to prevent Russia from undermining democracy around the world, then 25 years later, they did it in our own backyard.
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@mattyglesias Republicans want the social restraints of the 1950s, but not the economic restraints that accompanied them.
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@JR__Davis Let he who is without sin inject the first needle.
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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.
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We recently made phone calls to nearly a dozen suburbs, and discovered that all of them are falsely advertising their natural features.
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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.
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@HiThisIsTess Most people are too young to remember this, but Queen Elizabeth's father was also a monarch.
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Upper deck, first base line, Wrigley Field. I can see the world's greatest ballpark and the world's greatest body of water from here.
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Jake: "I hate Illinois Nazis." Elwood: "But you have to admit those counter-protestors are reacting violently." Bluesmobile drives away.
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@jelani9 @bbttychmbrs1 Bloomberg is proof that there is money in journalism -- but not for journalists.
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Trump is the fattest president since William Howard Taft
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@PeteHegseth @Charliemagne @realDonaldTrump Trump is a globalist/elitist: a billionaire who employs foreign workers and makes products in China. You like him because he's racist.
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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.
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@MikeVanderbilt When I found out the woman who used to go through trash bins in the park across the street from my apartment was Vivian Maier.
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@beth_wellington @midwestern_ope Bingo. A Loose Meat is drier.
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@gabrielmalor Not in Illinois it wouldn't.
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Hillary Clinton is president of the United States #alternativefacts
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Promontory Point vs. Houses of the Holy
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@CNNPolitics COVID should be renamed the Republican Virus.
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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?
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Trump is defending the legitimacy of his presidency by challenging the legitimacy of the election he won.
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Chicagoans so into politics they're excited about a primary for county assessor. #IllinoisPrimary
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ProPublica
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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.
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Now that I'm an editor, I understand the most important editing skill is hiring writers who don't need to be edited.
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Jim Oberweis lost his race for Congress, and a Democrat won his state senate seat. Only Oberweis could lose twice in one election.
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BREAKING: Democrat Lauren Underwood wins reelection to U.S. House in Illinois' 14th Congressional District. #APracecall at 2:10 p.m. CST. #Election2020 #ILelection
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@joekulys Did they discover a woman in the cabin?
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Chicagoans September through April: It's too damn cold! Chicagoans May through August: It's too damn hot!
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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.
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Largest city on each of the Great Lakes. Superior: Thunder Bay Michigan: Chicago Huron: Sarnia Erie: Cleveland Ontario: Toronto
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@its101191514 I've met Underwood. She doesn't want AOC's attention. She represents a conservative suburban district. Health care is her big issue.
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#LansingFact : This mosaic in the floor of the Sexton High School lobby is the original city seal. That cabin was torn down to build a @QualityDairy .
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No surprise GOP hostile to education: 15 most educated states voted for Clinton, 15 least for Trump.
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There are three states in this photo: Illinois (bottom), Kentucky (upper left), Missouri (upper right).
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