Chicago has been selected as the host city for the 2008 Barclays Churchill Cup finals, the biggest international rugby tournament in North America. The Tournament will kick off in Ottawa, Canada on June 7th with several dates across Canada before converging on Chicago for the final day of matches. Teams from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Ireland will compete in the event on June 21 at Toyota Park. Last year, Toyota Park played......

Chicagoist had a debate with a friend a few months back about the deficiency of really influential musicians coming out of Chicago in the past several years. We argued about the semantics of “coming out of Chicago” – does that mean born and raised here? Still living here? Commonly associated with the Second City? We never came to a clear consensus, but the conversation opened up Chicagoist’s eyes to some artists who cut their teeth......

Is it true what they say about full moons? The people-going-crazy things they say? Well, there was a full moon last Friday and soon after came a whole bunch of stupid incidents. Coincidence? Maybe. Tune in next week to see if it’s true what they say about Friday the 13th. On Monday, a 49-year-old South Side man bragged he could climb a tree, proceeded to climb said tree, promtly fell out of the tree and......

Yeehaw, the Perpetual Motion Roadshow is back in town! Tonight, they'll be stopping at Quimby's (1854 West North). It's the last night of roadshow #17, "Born of Secret Transit," which has been on the…well, road for a week, stopping in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, New York, Cleveland and Cincinnati. This leg of the tour features Todd Taylor, Darren O’Donnell, and Chicago's own Jonathan Messinger (of recent RedEye fame). The PMR is "an indie press tour circuit…a......

Is everyone all geared up for the debates tomorrow? We're pretty much pissing ourselves here at the Chicagoist offices, or we would be if we weren't so busy getting high and watching The Daily Show, so we'd like to thank the Tribune for running its debate drinking game article today. It gives us plenty of time to get ready. In "The Official 2004 Presidential Debate Drinking Game," everyone's apparently a winner. We were caught a......

A 31-year-old Chicago man died while skydiving yesterday at Skydive Chicago, near Ottawa. The death was the 15th at Skydive Chicago since 1993, including the June 2003 death of Skydive Chicago's owner Roger Nelson. The Lincoln Park resident and Ohio native "was supposed to come home today," his father said. "Today is his 32nd birthday. We were going to have a party together." Chicagoist thinks we'll remain firmly planted inside any perfectly good airborne......