Taste Chicago

Around midday Wednesday, a tweet from a respected national reporter about free agent Manny Machado was sent out with a specific dollar figure noted:

Buster Olney’s tweet was later quote-tweeted by Bob Nightengale, with a small detail added:

As you no doubt know, this sent almost everyone in baseball-land into a tizzy. $175 million is at least $100 million below the...

About five years ago (I’m too lazy to look it up right now), the City of Chicago adopted an energy benchmarking law. This means that owners of buildings of a certain size would soon be required to report how much energy (electricity, natural gas, district steam, chilled water, and other fuels) their buildings use. Every few years they have to audit their reports.

The city has posted three years of energy reports for the “covered” buildings (the ones of a certain size)...

BCB’s David Sameshima visited Wrigley Field Sunday and sent me the 66 photos you see above.

There’s been quite a bit of progress on the 1060 Project. You can see in the area near the former Gate D/Wintrust Gate that the terra cotta look that surrounded Wrigley in the 1930s has been restored. I think it looks great. Incidentally, the gate designation I mention above is going to change. By Opening Day all gates at Wrigley will be numbered instead of le...

As an assistant coach, Matt Nagy grew up under the Andy Reid learning tree, and Reid is one of the most forward thinking offensive minds of all time. Reid’s roots are squarely in the west coast offense, but he’s shown an ability to adapt and to learn other concepts to keep things fresh for his teams. Nagy’s first year running the offense with the Chicago

* Press release…

Today, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan’s campaign released the second of its closing ads, titled “Learned.” The spot tells the story of the last 15 months of her campaign for Illinois’ 13th congressional district. It underscores the importance of health care in this race, and highlights the miles Betsy has traveled, and the stories that she has heard in the last year. The ad began airing across the district today.

Though Amazon officially passed on Chicago for its heavily-hyped HQ2 second headquarters, the Seattle-based company’s decision expand elsewhere has done little to derail Related Midwest’s plans to build a sprawling riverfront campus known as “The 78.R...

Yeah, I still watch Grey’s Anatomy.

I caught up on last Thursday’s episode this morning, watching via an app on my phone, while getting things done around the house.

Side note: How futuristic would that sound to teenage me, who made mixtapes to listen to on my boom box and Walkman?!

Once again, the writers worked their magic and gave an analogy ...