When I called Joel Pollak on Wednesday, he was back home in Skokie for the Jewish holidays—visiting from his new home in Santa Monica. He moved there to work as an in-house counsel and editor-in-chief for conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, famous most recently for bringing down Acorn and Rep. Anthony Weiner…
September 15, 2011– Common Threads’ culinary fundraising event raised $28,000 to benefit health and nutritional education programs in Chicago to low income youth and their families. Local chefs participated at Fulton’s on the River to create and serve their favorite cook-out themed dishes within four categories–in a glass, on a bun, in a shell, or on a stick. Guests sampled each dish and voted for the top in each category. The winning chefs of the night were: Chao Thapthimkuna of Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar for In a Glass; David Blonsky of Public House and Mike Bellovich of Hub51 for In a Shell; Sarah Grueneberg of Spiaggia for On a Bun; and Scott Halverson of Prasino for On a Stick.
Fermilab’s particle accelerator goes offline today, after a ceremony that you can watch online. It’s about 41 years since Weston, Illinois, the small farming community that used to be where the Tevatron sits, went offline to make way for Fermilab.
On last night’s historic baseball action, “Catching Hell,” the 2003 NLCS, pitch counts, mob mentalities, and the wonders and terrors of sports.
Chicago remains among the worst cities in America in “lost time and wasted fuel” because of our congestion. But we spend less time in the car than many of our metropolitan peers, which is great… but that short time is spent seething.
Fermilab’s legendary particle accelerator gets shut down at the end of the week, a bit shy of its 30th birthday. Due to budget cuts, it’s the end of an era in American physics. But the Tevatron was on thin ice from the beginning—and it’s left us a lot of data to explore.
Mike Quigley’s innocuous comments at an American Islamic College conference—all part of a day for a typical pol—are picked up, batted around, and dropped by Bill O’Reilly and colleagues.
In 2009, Michelle Obama asked her widowed mother to leave her beloved South Shore bungalow to move with them to Washington. Back then, the country, no matter political affiliation, was taken with this family, and there seemed to be a general feeling of good will and admiration for the Obamas as they established an extended family in the private White House quarters. These days, not so much…
THE NEW MAN ON FIVE: In his first few months as mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has moved at breakneck speed to tackle long-neglected problems and drag a torpid bureaucracy into the 21st century. But the biggest battles lie ahead. Does he have what it takes to save the city?
In August, under gray skies threatening rain, the new mayor met us on the roof of City Hall for his cover photo shoot. Check out the behind-the-scenes pics below.
