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You have to print and mail the application? How quaint. My 4-year-old is obsessed with WOF, but alas, he's too young to attend the taping. Drat....

But before the ban bars *did* have the choice to be smoke free -- and when was the last time you were in one that was?...

So, in your trademark cryptic way, Spook, are you calling bullshit? Anything to back that up?...

I haven't read the book yet, but did see a profile of him in Chicago Mag a couple issues back. Dude has some huge balls, that's for sure....

So the Sun-Times is laying off reporters, but it still has the money to run a moronic article about presidential candidates' sexiness? I believe the latter is the natural consequence of the former. W...

That's cute that you think the feds don't already have unfettered access to DMV records....

Seconding spending a couple extra bucks and going to Soundings instead. Last time I was there with the kids we got a table on the balcony "outside" overlooking the Oceanarium. Much more relaxing than ...

I didn't mean to imply you were for the Real ID. I'm not currently for or against it -- the points you make I haven't read enough about to form an opinion one way or the other, But I respect that at l...

Blago isn't taking a stand for "poor folks", except a small segment of them that happen to be over 65 years old. And at the same time he lumps in the retired CEO living in Lake Forest. If he cared so...

I guess I'm missing the big picture of why something like this would be "very, very dangerous". As matilda said, you can't get on a plane currently without showing a driver's license or state ID, what...

So you're as accurate as The Onion! You've set the bar very high. (I kid, I kid.)...

First you get the oil... then you get the buffalo... then you get the women......

That guy mentioned in the story is a car messenger that moved about a mile or so south from Kilbourn Park -- he probably didn't think he needed to do "research" just to move 9 blocks. He's certainly a...

Imagine the possibilities of having your own industrial sized continuous fry line... it's a real life Simpsons episode waiting to happen....

As Steve Rhodes pointed out yesterday at the Beachwood: "It can't be a Hillary/Obama ticket - not if Hillary has said he's not ready to be president. You have to be able to argue that your vice pres...