Entries from Chicagoist tagged with 'coloradosprings'
March 17, 2008
In honor of our unofficial national holiday of drinking, St. Patrick's Day, we thought we'd peruse Men'sHealth Magazine's recent list of America's Drunkest Cities. Top of the list? Denver, followed by Anchorage, Colorado Springs, Omaha and Fargo. Our neighbors to the north in Milwaukee come in at #10. Our fair city comes in at 39th overall, 13th in binge drinking, and 17th in DUI arrests. At least, we think so, as their method of ranking......
Continue Reading "America, Your Drunkest City is ... Denver?"March 20, 2007
The DePaul Blue Demons (20-13) are flying high after defeating Kansas State 70-65 last night in the second round of the NIT tournament. The Blue Demons were led by Wilson Chandler and Sammy Mejia, each netting 18 points en route to the victory. But the Blue Demons have their work cut out for them as they are being targeted by the number one seeded team in the West Region, the Air Force Falcons. Air Force......
Continue Reading "Demons Flying High, For Now"January 30, 2007
Unlike sledding, which generally leaves us cranky at the cold reality of snow forcing itself into every possible crevice in our foolproof apparel defenses against it, we like ice skating. We like getting in the way of people who are really good at it because we're gawking at them with starry eyes. We like the sound it makes. We like watching skating of the figure variety on TV. But who knew that Chicago was the......
Continue Reading "Figure Skating — Chicago's Sport"January 7, 2005
For the second year in a row Chicago ranked America's 5th fattest city in a survey by Men's Fitness magazine. This year Houston ranked the fattest, beating out last year's fattest, Detroit. This is the 4th time in 5 years that Houston was ranked fattest. And the fittest? Seattle, then Honolulu, then Colorado Springs. The top 25 fattest and fittest cities are determined by looking at 14 categories including air quality, total number of fast-food......
Continue Reading "Let's Face It - We're Fatties"