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Pretty standard fare in my family's house with a few quirks. My folks always make two batches of dressing, one with ham that goes inside the turkey and a second, ham-free batch for their vegetarian ch...

If it wasn't for the DirecTV banner and the more modern cars whizzing by in the background, I would have guessed pic #1 was decades old, with classic car and old timey building and all. Very nice....

If the City defaults on its obligations to current retirees that will be no bueno for me, as I will be supporting my parents for the next 20 years, and as I've been looking for full-time work for over...

I'm not comfortable with someone who has run for partisan political offices multiple times, and who has made his very strong personal opinions on legal issues that may come before him as a judge well ...

Actually I think the site is a few blocks west of the Dan Ryan. I believe it was at 63rd and Wallace and I think there is a post office there now....

This is a good point. Although to be fair, the police exams have always been offered sporadically and only several years anyway, so anyone planning on becoming an officer would have to plan on doing s...

I don't know the movie "Gummo", but other Michigan movies that pop into my head are "Roger & Me", "8 Mile" and "The Big Chill"....

I hate when maps pretend whole parts of the city don't exist. What about Nana, Nightwood, Mundial, Amelia's? I suppose if the restaurants included on the map are the artist's favorites and he wanted t...

They do serve a good brunch and everything I've ever ordered for dinner has been great. Sometimes service is slow and uneven but if you go there knowing that and not in a rush it's not a big deal. Not...

I realize it may seem cliched or ridiculous for her to always write about the same types of characters - librarians, paper artists, rare book dealers, historians, but I don't care, that's not why I re...

Do you live in Pilsen? I'm guessing no. I do live here. If you did, you would know that many families in Pilsen are second and third generation Americans. Almost all my neighbors speak English well; ...

I don't know about Hynes; I still think he is a tool of the machine and it would have been really dangerous to have the machine controlling both the governor's office and the legislature via Mike Madi...

The cynic in me has always assumed that all those gaudy McMansions in Bridgeport are owned by mafia types or people who have benefited financially from their political connections to the mayor through...

The east side of Bridgeport has lots of those tacky behemoths. I've even seen one with a glass-enclosed indoor pool, I think around 38th and Normal....

I wish the City would have cut the Taste and kept the Outdoor Film Festival. Also, maybe there is a way to add more of a food element to existing Grant Park festivals like Blues Fest and Jazz Fest ...