Insider tips for Saturday's Lit Fest
It's here! The 27th annual Printers Row Lit Fest begins today, with daytime programming from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Lit After Dark from 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Before you hit the highway or head out for the el,...
View ArticleLarson's kind of town
Chicago has been very good to Erik Larson, even though it greeted his latest visit with a nasty rain and temperatures more common to November than to mid-May, which was why we were talking in the bar...
View ArticleAmericans idle ---Warming up your car is a risky, often illegal, tradition
It won't be as bone-chattering cold as today, but Thanksgiving could still be the chilliest in Chicago in nearly a quarter century. The predicted high for Thursday is 31 degrees, which would make it...
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Lehigh Valley was record-warm Sunday
Mother Nature missed the message that Sunday was the first full day of winter. While she didn't let the sun shine in and skies were overcast with sporadic rain, temperatures hit a high of 63 at Lehigh...
View ArticleRetracing his trip to Washington -- and back again
Maybe it was during the surprise storm in New York City. Or earlier, during the growing light of dawn in Xenia, Ohio. Or on a cold afternoon outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Somewhere along...
View ArticleEly's bears, wolves are waiting for you
So it turns out July isn't hot, the rain doesn't have to let up by tomorrow, and bears aren't scary. These and other turn-everything-you-think-you-know-on-its-head lessons are courtesy of a recent trip...
View ArticleLincoln's travels
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Maybe it was during the surprise storm in New York City. Or earlier, during the growing light of dawn in Xenia, Ohio. Or on a cold afternoon outside Independence Hall in...
View ArticleFrom the Cubicle: Cubs-Sox
Refresh: Manual | Auto | Jump to current inning On my ride into work this morning, I saw a car on Ohio Street with the license plate CUBSOX. I was on a bike and tried to catch up to it at a light and...
View ArticleWait, it's the Cubs' opener already?
Automatic refresh version | Jump to current inning Here we go again. When last we left our North Side heroes they were putting on quite the hitting display in the NLDS and then were swept by the...
View ArticleInsider tips for Saturday's Lit Fest
It's here! The 27th annual Printers Row Lit Fest begins today, with daytime programming from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Lit After Dark from 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Before you hit the highway or head out for the el,...
View ArticleLarson's kind of town
Chicago has been very good to Erik Larson, even though it greeted his latest visit with a nasty rain and temperatures more common to November than to mid-May, which was why we were talking in the bar...
View ArticleAmericans idle ---Warming up your car is a risky, often illegal, tradition
It won't be as bone-chattering cold as today, but Thanksgiving could still be the chilliest in Chicago in nearly a quarter century. The predicted high for Thursday is 31 degrees, which would make it...
View ArticleIce storms, snowfall, rain hinder holiday travel across U.S.
A band of severe weather that left at least three people dead in tornadoes and heavy storms in the southeastern United States pushed up the East Coast on Sunday, bringing record high temperatures to...
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