Because pool swimming is boring: Open Water Chicago. [link]
"'I thought it was time for me to be absolutely free, like the birds in the air,' he said. 'Birds go around and they enjoy their happiness, their freedom. But sometimes it can happen they find a tree, and they like to stop on a tree, and they didn’t know about the tree before. It doesn’t mean one tree is better than another tree. It just happens at the right moment in life.'" The CSO's new musical director Riccardo Muti on how he wound up in Chicago. [NYT]
Alton Logan says he's not bitter, despite spending 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. [Trib]
Sun-Times sports columnist Lacy Banks is facing brain cancer, prostate cancer, and end-stage congestive heart failure. He's going to be blogging his treatment, writing "I cordially invite you all to watch God heal me." [S-T]
Yet more evidence that graph paper is superior to all other forms of paper. [Concentrations]
The Chicago Justice Project examines local violence and asks "What should our response be? Who is at fault? What about the CPD's ability to reduce crime?" [CJP, via]
Candygram? [Mjkmjk]
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At first I thought that said "I cordially invite you all to watch God hate me"
Even Gothamist (spit) had election coverage!
COME ON WHERE IS THE OBAMA CHICAGO LOVE?
Lacy has brain & prostate cancer... not testicular.
I'd rather look at the lions