My life in Chicago did not start in lovely, fashionable Lincoln Park.  Instead, my first apartment in the city was in Boys Town at the intersection of Grace and Broadway, near Irving Park and the Lakefront.  For those who are not familiar with Chicago, this neck of the woods is on the border of some very seedy areas (it probably has improved somewhat over the last eleven years but my recent visit still told me to be careful!  When I lived there, […]

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I love that old Frank Sinatra song with the words, “it’s my kind of town, Chicago.  My kind of town Chicago“.  I can sing it in my head.  Yes, the windy city as they call it (not because of the wind but due to the politics….yet there is an awful lot of wind!) is one of my most favorite cities around.  It is fun, vibrant, young, hip, changing, exciting, and best of all, good old-fashioned Midwestern down to earth.  It was […]

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