Practicalmadness

Not that there will be (much) violence, but, well, anything's possible on a night like tonight.

If they win tonight the Sox will bring home Chicago's first World Series title since 1917. And then there will be a riot on the South Side like you won't believe.

My word, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is outspoken. Some choice quotes from today’s profile in the Washington Post: Ozzie on intelligence: I’m smarter than a lot of guys who go to Harvard. When you come to this country...

The company I work for, design firm The Killswitch Collective, just launched a brand-new website chock full of Demaree goodness. Credit for the design belongs to Ben Finch & Meredith Martin; mine was the task of taking their ambitious plan...

But she works for the city! It's not normal!!!

Returning triumphally to the blogosphere, the editors would first like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Chicago Transit Authority for not only devising a bus line so sublimely useless as the #70 Division Street Bus, but for managing to...

The new blog for Chicago, Chicagoist, has the story about the CTA installing a few “New York-style” train cars on the Brown Line, which have side-facing seats and hanging straps to allow more passengers to squeeze in during peak riding...

In which I shop for groceries efficiently, and without any deaths.

In which my passion for Chicago's eclectic brunch offerings is expressed.