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My neighborhood/My border town
Yes, my neighborhood in the South Loop is a border town now
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August 2023

My memories of Chicago's Standard Club
Or as everyone knows it now, the migrant shelter at Jackson and Plymouth
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July 2023

Remember when my Starbucks was gone? Well, Sip and Savor is here now to save the day!
Here's the story and below it, a Rerun from September about my sad Starbucks saga
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June 2023

Rerun, 2018: Monitoring the air quality on my corner sure taught me a few things about the EPA, particulates and Wifi
I wrote this piece five years ago; it even won an award. I thought of it a lot last week as I frequently checked my outside air quality, in light of the…
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May 2023

In five days Brandon Johnson will be our new Chicago Mayor....
Here's my humble advice
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April 2023

Rerun, 2019: The story of a Palestinian and a Jew in Chicago--at a time when only loyalty to each other counted....
I wrote this four years ago and posted it on my old blog. Since then, a wonderful friendship developed between me and Ty Cahas' granddaughter, Alicia…
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The "Hilma" movie at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago ....
Another wonderful WITASWAN event......
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March 2023

Rerun, 1993: My piece about Marianne Williamson that ran in my regular Sunday column in the Chicago Tribune....
She is an announced Democrat candidate and taking on President Joe Biden in the primary (if he runs) and I just saw her on ABC's This Week. And she was…
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February 2023

Reruns: At my movie club discussion last night of "Night Train to Munich," I told the group about my dad, who was one of the liberators of…
Then I decided to put two old posts about Ahlem from my old blog up today, the second of which is my dad's obituary that I wrote in 2016, a few months…
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In 1969, I had to listen to 16-year-old Mandy Patinkin sing Broadway tunes in his South Shore living room because his mother made me....
Who knew he was on his way to stardom?
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January 2023

Just when I thought I knew absolutely, positively everything about Chicago, I found out I had a few more things to learn....
Greg Borzo's book about Chicago history has a few things I never knew
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Bonnie McGrath

December 2022

I've got the blues outside my house
and it's getting very confusing
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