Von Erich

Three answers to your question: 1. Someone A LOT lackluster will run against him and he'll win (sort of like Topinka vs. Blago). I'd still have respect for Peraica if it wasn't for that damn van driv...

I was going to relocate out of the city in a couple years anyway. Do you think the bill will spread throughout Cook County? The State (seeing as several venues will not be in the city limits)?...

Conspiracy theorists think this is the pharmaceutical companies way of paying for the tamiflu vaccination. They took a bath on that one. I heard on NPR this morning that they plan to make 304 million...

Bus drivers are the only controllers that are in the same open space as the passengers. $800 per bus...that's about the cheapest expenditure I've seen for the CTA. And the cost to potential savings r...

Speaking of North Shore, nice car, and felonies, was there a single cop in any segment of Risky Business?...

It wouldn't surprise me if the very people that are manufacturing this project are using that same quote. Probably explains the lack of sidewalks you referenced earlier....

Last time I checked, downtown structures were built by private companies. If the city wants to attract more business, it can take out the stops on zoning to expand the fringes of the commercial distr...

I don't know if I'm echoing what JessNevins is saying, but to constantly put money into areas that are ONLY for tourism, as well as constantly putting the money made back into areas ONLY for tourism d...

Open question: why neglect these neighborhoods when, if they were less crime ridden, the property values and taxes could be much higher? I don't buy that they are just someplace to dump the riff raff...

I agree. Anyone living outside of those borders knows exactly what you mean. ...

Nice job on featuring hometown breweries. Do you know of any foreign brewers that have taken up residence in the area that feature old world styles and techniques? Most of the smaller places seem to...

People could learn a lot from the Amish. It's not that they have a refusal to use modern technologies, it's that they will not use them if there are other conventional ways to do the same thing. Tha...

I'm just curious, what was/is "the face of adversity"?...

He was on Fox News this morning. I only caught a couple minutes of it but it was the part where they were asking him about the Church Liaison on the payroll for $116,000. He claims that "they" don't...

I wouldn't classify Melrose Park, Elmwood Park, River Grove, and Maywood Park as western suburbs, even though they are, but all of those places have Rockys and Skips and Sonnys and Frankies all over t...