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Join me in sending a VHS copy of Caddyshack to…
Chicago White Sox
Attn: Chairman Reinsdorf
333 W. 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Having a day to think about the Crain’s article on stadium financing.
It’s an initial ask. No way will the White Sox get a billion dollars to build the stadium. For perspective- the Cubs asked for $200 million in city/county funds for the Wrigley renovation and got zero.
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REMINDER: Don’t forget to refill your empty Blanton’s bottle with a value bourbon before any bourbon loving freeloader family members drop by Thursday.
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“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain, and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else. You are in a big, brash, muscular, broad shouldered motherfuckin’ city. A metropolis, completely non-neurotic, ever-moving, big hearted but cold blooded machine…” - Bourdain
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BREAKING: Rescue teams comb rubble at Belmont & Seminary in Lakeview this morning in a search for survivors of the destroyed neighborhood. Presumably.
Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, destroying neighborhood
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Ok Chicago - here's the challenge - let's NOT BE Michigan, or Florida, or Texas.
Let's go out, wear masks, stay seated while meeting our friends in bars or restaurants, and have a good time AND KEEP OUR LOCAL BARS SAFE AND OPEN.
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Lakeview residents flock to support a struggling local ice cream parlor.
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I think somebody drove to Chicago and…booted their own car?
I was going to laugh but then realized it’s a Hyundai prone to that USB hotwiring trick.
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If Navy Pier with rent of $1.00 a year can't make things work at 15-20% of normal business imagine how your locally owned bars & restaurants with actual rent costs are struggling.
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“I’m originally from Chicago.”
“Oh, what neighborhood?”
“Naperville.”
🤦🏻♂️
Honestly suburbanites: “I live just outside Chicago” works too
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What I can't figure out after the last two years is how America ever managed to pass mandatory seat belt laws.
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Chicago: A dedicated giant municipally owned waterfront park designed for hosting music festivals? On the shores of Lake Michigan? That’s crazy!
Milwaukee:
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“Where you from?”
“Chicago. Here for a conference.”
“I’m from Chicago too!”
“Which neighborhood? I’m in Lakeview.”
“St Charles!”
🤦♂️🤬🤦♂️🤬🤦♂️🤬🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Honest to God I might just run for 44th Ward Alderman solely to pass an ordinance banning Wrigley Field from selling two burnt ass hot dogs and a beer for $34 dollars. WTF Levy?
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I may have found the most snow f*cked car in Chicago. Montrose east of LSD.
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I…just had a beer, a Malort, and a Chicago style hot dog…with the latter served on a heated plate with linen napkin and silverware…achievement unlocked?
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“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain, and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else. You are in a big, brash, muscular, broad shouldered motherfuckin’ city. A metropolis… a beast that will, if disrespected or not taken seriously, roll over you without remorse.”
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Whole Chicago lakefront is absolutely packed north of Navy Pier right now. Glorious.
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Your no vax mandate Monday reminder that if biz still chooses to require proof it’s their right. Be nice & go elsewhere if that bothers you.
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“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else.” -
@bourdain
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Good to see the architects who fucked up Soldier Field got a new commission.
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“Working for bars and restaurants you must eat a lot of nice meals!”
“Nice? Dunno. I eat a lot of great Chicago meals.”
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No mask mandate Monday reminder that if your Chicago bartender or server chooses to still wear a mask it’s their own damn business. Be nice.
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Half of Chicago isn’t returning to the office regularly but 5-6pm on roads during rush hour sucks as bad as it did in 2019? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Rainy crappy day like this is a great day for a beer & a saloon burger at Side Street Saloon at 1456 W George if you ask me….
#FreePlug
Good kitchen. One of the fairly rare residential corner Chicago taverns left too.
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Always judge people by how they treat the front line staff.
Wow. GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert just threw a mask in the face of a floor staffer when she came to the floor not wearing one, per someone watching the exchange.
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You guys know you’re allowed to deep clean the stations more than once a year, right?
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Taxing much more of UChicago’s real estate would help City finances too.
UChicago students have come up with an idea to tackle the city’s $35M in pension debt: adding a toll to DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
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They all got 24 hour video surveillance but none of them own a fucking snow shovel? Jagoffs.
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BREAKING: Mayor Lightfoot wants permanent 10pm curfew on sales of beer, wine, and spirits by grocery and convenience stores.
The 9pm curfew she imposed by emergency order that applied most of last year certainly solved all crime problems here. Unreal.
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Reminder: When you’re out at a bar or restaurant more often than not the sky has hi-def eyes recording everything.
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Guys, there's a multi-billion dollar third party food delivery app threatening to sue if Chicago adopts a rule merely requiring the apps to show customers how much the app charged the restaurant you ordered from for the referral.
Wrap your brain around that.
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Somebody FOIA that CTA Red Bull contract! I just gotta’ know the going rate to put a product on a flat car on the brown line…..
The
@redbullracing
18 championship F1 car is riding around the
@cta
Loop till around 2pm today! It’s Brown Line
#973
. Hyping up:
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“Siri what is the worst kind of Chicagoan!”
“Do you mean the ones who shovel their steps but not their sidewalks?”
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Gas didn’t get expensive. The other gas stations in America just started marking it up like the BP at La Salle & Clark has been for years.
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Serious question: Is there a finer Chicago tavern neon sign?
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The new wedding party habitat at Lincoln Park Zoo is pretty cool.
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“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else. You are in a big, brash, muscular, broad shouldered motherf***in’ city.” -
@bourdain
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Sigh. Really wish I was busy being annoyed at thousands of people between me & the Glühwein stand right now.
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This whole South Loop block is like a Hollywood back lot faux Chicago set….
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“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain, and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else.” -
@bourdain
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That is an attempted execution.
WHAT. IS. THE. F*CKING. PLAN?
@chicagosmayor
@ChiefDavidBrown
@SAKimFoxx
Exclusive video: An armed robber ambushed a man in Lincoln Park overnight, then shot him 3x at close range after demanding his phone password.
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Just now
@martylennartz
on the
@LinBrehmer
tribute
@93XRT
to Terri Hemmert - “You (and Lin) made Chicago a better place.”
@themmert
- “Chicago made us better people.”
That’s it. That’s
@Chicago
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Ok F*CK THIS. EVERY CHICAGO TAVERN IS SAFER THAN NAVY PIER. cc:
@chicagosmayor
@GovPritzker
@CrainsChicago
Welcome back, everyone! ❤️ Navy Pier officially reopens to the public on Wednesday, June 10. Before you visit, be sure to learn more about our safety guidelines and procedures:
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We may live in a godless age but heck of a lot of people lined up for lunch hour Ash Wednesday ashes in the Loop right now.
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“What City am I in, again?”
Said nobody ever standing at the corner of Quincy & LaSalle.
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Now I’m just pissed. The City of
@chicago
’s OFFICIAL new tourism campaign site brags on spray paint (A BANNED PRODUCT IN CHICAGO) being invented here. Fucking asinine. Fire everyone involved.
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NINETY PERCENT of their Chicago based HQ staff declined the Tyson Foods required relocation to Arkansas if they wanted to keep their jobs. Nine. Zero. Percent. 👏
Hundreds of Tyson Foods employees are expected to depart as the company has said it plans to consolidate its corporate employees in Arkansas
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I know enough about Chicago's historical demographics not to be particularly concerned. Now could I offer you a Modelo and a pierogi?
@chicagobars
Honest question: how do you feel about the amount of illegals entering in to the United States and the rate of illegal immigrants entering the USA outstripping the birth rate of American citizens?
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Look people, even DIVE bars have been carding people for DECADES. Checking a vaccine card at a store door is not some incredible challenge.
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Updating my earlier tweet: Chicago, it’s a pretty city, ain’t it?
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Nobody WANTS Bears to go. It’s just simply exhausting that their $6 BILLION organization keeps asking for 9 figure taxpayer subsidies when their not that old shiny new stadium debt is still being paid off by City taxes.
Sell some equity to do it McCaskey’s. Like a normal biz.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said he wants to keep the Bears ‘shuffling’ in Chicago
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Chicago is such a small town you can’t even fathom. Not in a parochial way just man… spend enough time here and everyone you meet knows somebody you know. X100
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Undisclosed location. Writing emails. Drinking….glogg?
I got a weird job. 🤷♂️🎄🍻
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Chicago I am pleased to announce spring has indisputably arrived. Based on my highly scientific “first paleteria guy spotting of the year” metric.
Congrats guys! You made it!
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I see no way a CTA train wrapped in “Bullet Train” advertising could backfire on them this month.
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There’s no fucking reason to be using a leaf blower of any kind at 8:45am on a Sunday.
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Would a rotating series of summer beer & wine pop ups in the Loop’s many under-used public plazas be a thing that would enchant & delight you people?
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“In the event of severe weather immediately seek shelter!” 🤔
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Chicago, we have an open patio sighting. WE HAVE AN OPEN PATIO SIGHTING! Cheers to the S&G Diner early risers!
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Being charitable to the last Mayor this whole 2023 NASCAR race is just like her term…undeniably well intended but with execution needlessly hampered by poor communication, deaf to any feedback, and in the end entirely overtaken by a natural disaster.
This ends my TED talk.
Fans waiting in rain frustrated by poor communication as heavy downpours delay NASCAR Chicago Street Race events
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Rare skyline photo from the Lincoln Park nature area pavilion unsullied by wedding people, yoga people, or tourist people.
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