What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You May Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Jul 7, 2014 2:00PM
- Starting yesterday, July 6, and continuing through July 12, Chicago Craft Gin Week is in full effect. You're welcome.
- A Chicago bicyclist wrote an open letter on Craigslist to a pedestrian who she says hoped she would 'die on her bike' after he refused to clear the bike lane for her outside of Big Star in Wicker Park.
- Our Weekend Theatre pick was 'Empowerment,' a short documentary about Donda's House, featuring Rhymefest).
- Our Weekend Playlist featured an eclectic array of artists, and was inspired by the remaining free Downtown Sound concerts and free movies, respectively, at Millennium Park.
- Fourth of July weekend started off with 36 people being shot. By Sunday morning, that number increased to 50 shot and nine killed.
- Ald. Deb Mell (33rd) took to Twitter Thursday to announce that she and her wife of four years, Christin Baker, were divorcing. The couple married in 2011.
- After you support your local independent bookstore, head over to Palmer Square to partake in New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat, which returns for its 15th year to Chicago on July 12.
- Our 'Around Town' galleries took a look at July 4th fireworks and saw a skull in the Bean.
