The three short documentaries dig deep into corners of Chicago history.
Tag: Wrigley Field
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Do a Doubleday
Ride the Red Line for a cross-town series featuring both the city’s baseball teams.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Just call Tom Tunney Alderman Lucky
In the Ricketts family, Tom Tunney has the best enemies an alderman seeking reelection could have.
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The World Music Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Fall Out Boy at Wrigley Field and more goings-on 9/7-9/9
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‘This is a march of civil disobedience’ [PHOTOS]
On the ground at the August 2 protest that shut down Lake Shore Drive on its way to Wrigley Field.
Posted inFood & Drink
With antique spirits and goat brats, Mordecai brings fine dining to Rickettsville
Chef Matthias Merges’s restaurant is the latest to open in the Hotel Zachary, across from Wrigley Field.
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How Mordecai chef-owner Matthias Merges helped transform modern fine dining
A phone call to PolyScience in Niles resulted in the popularization of immersion circulators in restaurant kitchens.
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Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts to replace a Republican casino tycoon accused of sexual misconduct. No, not Trump. Another one.
Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts replaces Steve Wynn as the lead fund-raiser for the RNC because of course.
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Jeanne Ives says Bruce Rauner has ‘betrayed’ Republicans, and other Chicago news
Also, Senator Dick Durbin is bringing a local medical student “Dreamer” to Trump’s State of the Union address.
Posted inMusic
‘Go, Cubs, Go’ is a lame, deflated stab at a sports anthem
Hey, Chicago, what do you say? Right, this song sucks.
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The Chicago bro is coming to ruin your neighborhood
This invasive species oozes a particular kind of toxic masculinity.
Posted inNews & Politics
Joe Ricketts made a bad year for local news far worse
When he pulled the plug on DNAinfo Chicago and Chicagoist, the city lost an invaluable source for information.
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Who loves Chicago’s most unlovable losers, the Bears?
Perhaps no local fan base is more loyal than that of the Bears. But what has the so-called pride and joy of Illinois done in three decades to deserve such devotion?
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Stephen Paddock rented two Michigan Avenue hotel rooms overlooking Lollapalooza but never showed up, and other Chicago news
Also, Cubs home playoff tickets are the most expensive in the MLB..
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Villa Park man arrested for allegedly raising money to send ISIS fighters from the U.S. to Syria, and other Chicago
Also, the family of man shot to death by a CPD officer in 2011 is asking for a special prosecutor.