Happy 70th birthday to 2023 Ford C. Frick Award winner and legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster Pat Hughes! (📸 Jean Fruth)

The median age of all homebuyers is now 56, up from 31 in 1981:

There's a new trade on Wall Street called the "TACO trade."

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, has died at 96, 180 years after his grandfather left the White House. He was born in 1928 when his father was 75.

.Steve Martin

Illinois REALTORS® Statement on Funding Proposal for Chicago Transit Authority: Proposal would increase real estate taxes by 600 percent. > bit.ly/4kpzlda

Dog hears and feels unborn baby.. 😊

Oh this would be interesting 👀

If you want #Peace, prepare institutions of peace. This doesn’t refer only to political institutions, whether national or international, but to the entire forum of institutions – educational, economic, and social – that are involved.

Illinois is No. 1 in the U.S. when it comes to spending on higher education. If you subtract pension costs? We're No. 3 in the nation. Our problem isn't the money—it's the system.

Among other things, Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, was a RAF intelligence officer in WWII, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin, and was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien. He was also married to his wife for over 50 years.

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Somebody in Chicagoland transit bill negotiations actually proposed a $1 a pizza delivery tax to help fund the @CTA and the idea might make it into an actual bill? How oxygen and political common sense starved was the room that came up with this brainstorm? #NoPizzaTax4CTA

Deep dish pizza? Neapolitan style pizza? Cracker crust pizza? Tavern cut pizza? Chicagoland folks have lots of strong opinions on what is the best pizza. A pizza we all hate? A carryout or delivery pizza topped with a $1.50 @CTA bailout tax. Tell your electeds: #NoPizzaTax4CTA

Hey Chicago, do you want to pay effectively 16.75% to 18% sales tax on your delivery or carryout dinner for yourself after a long day at work? Families do yu want to pay a 12-13% sales tax on family pizza night at home? No? Tell your elected officials NO new delivery tax!

Wednesday: Governor JB Pritzker makes it very clear in press conference he opposes "Broad based new taxes" in any State budget. Saturday: General Assembly members are floating a brand new $1.50 tax on every carryout or delivered meal in northeast Illinois. Unreal. #NoPizzaTax4CTA

In one of those piquant little ironies that long time observers of Chicago Transit Authority appointments will appreciate, a number of Chicagoland pastors have signed a letter opposing the #NoPizzaTax4CTA $1.50 delivery fee on deliveries. h/t Capitol Fax drive.google.com/file/d/1BiXSx1…

#SaturdaySelfie for #Svengoolie. Graduation time. Svengoolie Jim Roche Debbie Rochon

If the proposed Illinois Senate meal delivery tax passes, your affordable indulgence of a meal delivered to you at your Chicago home after a long day will have an effective 16.75% to 17.75% sales tax rate. Yep, only meal in any US City more heavily taxed than a meal at a Chicago