Chicago Life

Chicago Life

So I’m sitting on my couch and it’s a beautiful morning. The sun is shining and Yahoo weather tells me it’s 32 degrees out, which gives the morning a crisp feeling. I’ve got a fire going in the fireplace, the first one of the year. I made myself a latte this morning, complete with homemade [...]

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So in the past couple weeks several people have emailed me links to articles about Cereality, a new “cereal bar” that will soon be arriving in Chicago. The concept? Three to four bucks gets you one of over 30 types of cereal served in a wi-fi enabled environment by pajama-clad employees. It’s sounds like a [...]

Continue Reading (milk + grain products) * yuppies = starbucks-like success (?)

My friend Mike has several friends in Chicago’s improv comedy scene and she and I have been talking about going to see some of her friends’ shows for months. Well last night we finally got around to it. I went with her and some other friends to two shows. We went to pHamily, an improv [...]

Continue Reading Laughter the Chicago Way

Apparently at some point on Tuesday the Chicago Tribune printed a story in Wednesday’s Women News section without the knowledge of senior editors. When the editors heard about the story, they led a massive effort to pull the section out of the paper by hand, however a few copies apparently slipped through. Crains explains that [...]

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