Demolition Warning!

Old Holy Angeles School at 533 E. Oakwood Blvd.

An ideal candidate for restoration and adaptive reuse as affordable housing.

Yet, it will continue to deteriorate until the Archdiocese requests emergency demolition.

And Chicago will get another vacant lot.

The Lowneys Chocolate Pavilion at the 1893 World’s Fair. A more perfect building to eat up some chocolate in, I cannot imagine. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-155711; John George M. Glessner, photographer

Ray Milland would warn us: Don’t look at today’s eclipse with your bare eyes.

No viable way to pay for domed stadium in Brook Park unless the Haslams pony up: Brent Larkin cleveland.com/opinion/2024/0…

The Bey Daughters today with my old bud, the great Robert Paige today at his big show at @Hyde Park Art Center. They were excited to meet him — and I am excited to have them meet him.

This should be interesting…

A city commission on Thursday unanimously recommended landmark designation for a 118-year-old Hyde Park church.

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RIP to the great Joe Flaherty as Abe Lincoln invents a Time Machine youtu.be/AATDhGrhyjU?si… via YouTube

Why would a journalist even ask this question? When was the last time journalists asked a white governor if a catastrophe happened because too many white people were hired? This is how racial propaganda works. Media should not legitimize it.

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

The Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Award nominations are out today. I made the cut and so did my Sun-Times editorial board colleague and fellow columnist Rummana Hussain for her terrific column!

In honor of the great Lou Gossett Jr., make some time this weekend to check out the very good Rockford Files’ S3/Ep17, Just Another Polish Wedding, wGossett & Isaac Hayes as private investigators. NBC should’ve given them a series.

Despite $1B cost, Mayor Brandon Johnson open to helping develop area around proposed Bears stadium on lake - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024…

The old LaSalle Street Station, downtown Chicago, 5/2/1969. Chicago Sun-Times photo archives, photographer unknown.

“It's fucking picturesque, is what it is.”

“Well, Ma’am. If I see him, I’ll sure give him the message.” The great M. Emmet Walsh as Loren Visser, uttering that fantastic exit line (preceded by that cackle!) in 1984’s Blood Simple. RIP