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A blog by Bonnie McGrath. Got feedback? E-mail bonmcgrath@aol.com.

Summoned

a worthwhile chat with Alderman Fioretti

04/09/2012

When the alderman called me up and asked me to come over to see something, I had no idea the eye-opening lesson in prices, budgeting and economics I was in for... Read More...

This Hot Pink Pen is a South Looper

Jan Huttner gets some ink

04/07/2012

From one film activist woman's issue to the next, South Looper Jan Huttner never rides off into the sunset. Read all about it! Read More...

South Looper Cheryl Pocus set her mind to reach a goal that many obese people find impossible to accomplish. She not only accomplished an enormous weight loss all on her own, she also got some darn good recognition for doing so. Read More...

Happy First Birthday, Overflow Coffee Bar

you made it!

04/01/2012

It seems like not all that long ago a nice young couple opened a pie-in-the-sky idea of a coffee shop in the South Loop. And it's still going strong (kind of like the coffee)

More things I never knew

but then, I always learn something I never knew when Dennis McClendon opens his mouth

03/30/2012

Neighborhood geographer, cartographer and historian Dennis McClendon was at it again last night--and still, after all these years I picked up a few new tidbits... Read More...

South Loop a neighborhood of neighborhoods

that's the new brand

03/25/2012

I'm really surprised: I LOVE the new South Loop brand.... Couldn't have said it better myself. Read More...

Sleek and Sophisticated

The new Acadia

03/24/2012

Topping off a great dinner at the new hot spot Acadia, I spotted a grove of trees on State Street that one might find in the town of Acadia Read More...