Middle aged dad. Sarah’s +1. Roxanne’s best buddy. Ex-sportswriter, pro mascot. Big fan of Wrigley, pizza, local news, and good folks. Just doing my best.
She’s a big city ad exec home in Gingerbread Falls for the holidays trying to find herself. He’s a clumsy lumberjack who volunteers at her grandma’s nursing home who can help. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce star in the Hallmark classic, Meet You Under the Mistletoe.
A proposal and an actual marriage on the same day at the place where a rat or maybe a squirrel died that has become the city’s hottest tourist attraction.
Kris Bryant, staring into the void down 15 while playing first base for the Rockies knowing that, at the very least, he still has a mural of himself painted on the side of a Wrigleyville bar.
"My little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago, is, Tim Walz has been going around saying that he served in war, and maybe they did it in Chicago so that he could actually accurately say that he visited a combat zone"
- JD Vance in Kenosha Wisconsin
People give Cubs fans shit for continuing to pack Wrigley despite the team not being great and…You only get so many days, so many years in your life. Day Baseball at Wrigley is a drug that has no equal.
"Work from home isn't the future!" Man, it is snowing outside in Chicago, and I started work fifteen minutes ago without having to leave my house. All the office beer carts or in-person company kumbayas in the world don't make me miss having to commute each way in this.
Fields is gonna get traded to the Falcons for a third rounder and a bag of beans where he’s gonna unlock something he couldn’t in Chicago. Caleb Williams is gonna be Mitchell Trubisky 2.0 as a Bear. The sun rises, the sun sets, nothing ever changes.
It's me, the Cubs fan who is rooting for the White Sox because baseball is fun, this White Sox team is fun, and what's good for Chicago is good for me.
Jeff Passan giving a shoutout to some random fan who predicted the Bellinger signing in a tweet to Obvious Shirts shows that he is a real one, a true baseball fan’s baseball fan, but also that he spends way too much time online. Much respect.
People are losing their minds over Italian beef sandwiches nationally thanks to The Bear but wait until they find out that sometimes here in Chicago we combine an Italian beef sandwich with an Italian sausage to create a truly diabolical and delicious Italian Combo.
Illinois is the only state in the nation that requires drivers 75 and older to retake a driving test as a condition of renewing their driver’s license. New legislation from Rep. Jeff Keicher would end this practice.
#twill
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At a bar in Key West…
“You’re from Chicago? Isn’t Chicago a…”
Me, immediately cutting the guy off: “A wonderful place to live? A completely and totally safe tourist destination with tons to do? Yes, yes it is.”
For the first time in the 109 year history of Wrigley Field, the Culver’s sign can be seen on the same block as the marquee. The restaurant opens soon, it would appear. What a moment in history.
Ah yes, the party of book bans, repealing Roe vs. Wade, opposing gay marriage, and other assorted classics is very famously tolerant and wanting to leave everyone alone.
Two Bud Lights and two hot dogs at Wrigley cost $50 yesterday and I'm not saying ballpark prices have gotten out of hand but yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.
I cannot get over the fact that some dumb motherfuckers decided to head out on a boat on Lake Michigan knowing a storm like this was coming. Like what a bunch of dumb motherfuckers. Dumb. Motherfuckers.
I've lived in Chicago for a dozen years now and I can say with absolute certainty that you never truly get used to Air and Water Show week. Like there's no tuning out the giant jets flying overhead.
Breakfast with ‘Friends’: Gianno Caldwell talks new Chicago mayor with diners
Gianno Caldwell asks diners their reaction to Brandon Johnson being sworn in as Chicago Mayor. Segment:
Booing Jerry Krause’s widow is the most embarrassing thing Chicago sports fans have done at a game since that father and son attacked the Royals first base coach at the White Sox game.
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy invokes Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest as he calls on Americans to pray for an end to abortion:
“Every day in this country, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don’t belong to a famous athlete, and they’re not seen on national TV.”
It’s the architecture, the ease of making friends, summer vibes, the neighborhoods, the food, oh the glorious food. It’s the flag, the sun rising over the Lake, street festivals, and the way the worst people on this hellsite are our most vocal critics makes us love it more.
Chicago is nice and all, but I do wonder what is in the water there that makes Chiagoans act like this on the internet, just a next level commitment to boosterism
Consensus among Wrigleyville bartenders is that Iowa is welcome to come back every year. Hawkeye fans apparently tipped well, were respectful, and drank everything in sight.
Yesterday afternoon just before 5, my daughter came into the world and Wrigleyville Man officially became Wrigleyville Dad. Welcome to the world, Nora Marie. You are 5 pounds, 8 ounces, and your mother and I are so very in love with you.
If you’re not used to Wrigley prices, it’s hard to overstate how much of a bargain $149 for the Makers Mark Barrel Room is. Two hours of pregame food and drink plus in-game food and drink on top of some of the best seats in the ballpark.
If you were plotting the absolute drunkest day you could have in Chicago after work, it'd start at Ceres Cafe, migrate over to Richard's, quick stop at La Scarola for a glass of wine and to carb up, then Hangge Uppe, and then if you're still alive at that point, Tai's Til 4.
The White Sox met with a state funding agency to present plans for a new stadium, but officials say lawmakers would have to increase the borrowing limit if the team wants taxpayer financing.
One other interesting stat from the weekend -- Apparently
@murphysbleacher
sold more beer on Saturday than they've ever sold in a single day, which is absolutely insane to me given that the bar has been there for decades.
@chicagobars
Current weather conditions at the corner of Clark and Addison: The stuff that dreams are made of. Take the rest of the day off work and get out here.
@Cubs
Chef Tee from Cozy Noodle ran a 3:30 Chicago Marathon today and is not only on his feet but is actually working tonight and that is a level of fitness and dedication I will never know. Man is a legend.
Walking by one of Chicago’s hidden gems this morning. Situated in Lakeview on the north side of Chicago, Wrigley Field is one of those quaint neighborhood joints that seems to go overlooked by tourists, a real under the radar spot.
It’s 51 degrees and partly cloudy with a high of 57 and no rain in the forecast on the biggest drinking holiday of the year in Chicago. Today is going to be a disaster.
I very much want the White Sox to stay in Chicago but on the list of things we could spend a billion dollars in taxpayer money on, replacing a 30ish year old baseball stadium for a team that consistently ranks in the bottom third in the league in attendance is like number last.
Connor Bedard, Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso, Rome Odunze, Caleb Williams. My god Chicago has such an incredible wealth of young stars who are just so likable.
Man all due respect to the fine folks at WGN but there is no news day slow enough in the history of Chicago to where “Man in high rise walking around naked with the blinds open” is worthy of the evening news.
Absolute embarrassment, and there’s no excuse for this. Chicago is a world class city and our public transit system has got to meet the moment, during the marquee and the mundane alike.
From a source: A lot of frustration with the CTA over Lolla Red Line schedule backed up. “You invite 200k people to downtown Chicago and make it impossible for them to leave.”
Last year after I finished the marathon, some guy who was running about ten feet behind me immediately lit up a cigarette after crossing the finish line, and I think about this far more than I should.
What if, and hear me out, the Culver's opening right across the street from Wrigley Field at the start of the offseason was the Cubs way of wooing Craig Counsell?