Although so far this winter, the temperatures have been very mild, I can recall January's of past we were not so fortunate. According to records I reviewed, 9 of the 15 coldest days in Chicago where the temperature was at least 20 below zero...

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, many of the kids in our neighborhood had pet snakes. It seems we use to collect baseball cards and coins and rocks and fossils and beer cans and pretty much anything else you can find enough of to stick on a...

This past few weeks of "Feels like 102 degree temps" brings me back to this story published 3 years ago about events 20 years prior to that. Mr. Sims appeared in front of Judge O’Callahan in a Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago off of...

In some previous posts going back nearly 4 years I mentioned my father’s jewelry store in the heart of Chicago’s downtown jewelry district. I talked about his customers, in particular, gypsies who would frequent the store with cash and a...

I am not sure how or why this happens. A name, place or thing jogs my memory of person, event or experience. This time it's a person I haven’t thought about for perhaps 35 years. And the last time I saw him I was selling pens to collect money...

More than 10 years ago, in 2007, the College of American Pathologists Foundation, then being led by Dr. Mary Kass, a former president of the College, started, or essentially brought back “CAP Futurescape”. The idea was to have an intense...