I’m a Southside Chicagoan...when this shit went down several years ago (during an actual polar vortex, in an affluent downtown neighborhood, in the middle of the night), I was one of many who thought maybe it was performance art or some ish. Then when it actually got real (he pissed off the police, basically. As we…

Thanks for this beautiful piece. I was about to graduate HS when this song dropped. LL, with his fine ass, nailed it. I am a Chicagoan from the ‘wild, wild 100s’ and me and my girls felt like he had to be spying on us cause he spit about all the shit we took for granted daily. That song always gives me the warm and…

Mooney and Grodin were both legends...and slept on mercilessly. I’m sad to lose them both. My faves:

Carl Anderson was so fucking crucial. Painfully underrated...

His handling of the Oklahoma Bombing basically made is his career. As a twenty-something back then, I didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation until I saw a TV segment where an elderly white man was carrying a small brown baby out in his arms, both of them covered in blood and debris. That man was holding on to…

Par for the course. I didn’t vote for her. Chicago is still a ‘Big Boss’ city and she always appeared to fall short (no pun intended). She seems to have a Napoleon complex (okay, maybe pun intended) and governs as such. I believe that the flack she catches is well-deserved. Also, she knew about the LaQuan McDonald…

I’m gone let Amber have the last word on the matter:

Some people are sensitive. My grandfather was from Louisiana and my grandmother from Tennessee. My grandfather’s people believed in a ‘sweet’ on their plate when they ate all meals...hence sugar on grits at breakfast, etc. My grandmother’s people ate grits salted and peppered and/or with cheese only. However, their…

Several years ago, I read some click bait article from some random pub with a youthful author who swore that Chicago was not known as a ‘chicken’ town and I was like, whaaa? Then they proceeded to highlight a dozen or so downtown and northside eateries for their wings and then I was like, ‘oh, he wasn’t writing this…

He always reminded me of that type of black person who is used to being the blackest person in the room who spends most of their waking life surrounded by non-blacks (i.e., professional settings; the actual suburban cul-de-sac where they live amongst the non-blacks; their progressive church, etc.) but then forgets how…

Black Ivory had some real jams and were sorely underrated. But I’m a Chicagoan, and a ‘House Head,’ and ‘Mainline’ is the Alpha, Omega, Truth, Light and a bag of Jay’s plain potato chips all rolled into one. As a DJ, you were more than suspect if you didn’t have this cut in your rotation. They were gods and I hope…

Granted...but I've also seen enough women make that threat and then back that shit up... sometimes in spectacular fashion. Maybe it depends on the woman.

That’s a shame. These idiots are going to get enough of letting ‘Cop Joe,’ his maladjusted cop buddies and all their insurrectionist cousins be the de facto US foreign policy.

I was in high school when he died. It was a horrible, surreal day...happened around Thanksgiving. For us on the west and south sides, it was like losing a Malcolm X or a King.

I have some faves on this list. I also feel that way about H.E.R. All her music is beautiful and sexy and nary a song is bad.

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She’s flossing at 70 and bringing me up close and personal with the mediocrity of my humanity...

I didn’t vote for Lightfoot, but I don’t begrudge her, either She’s seems just as mediocre as the rest. However, I do take issue with this BS. She used to head up the Police Board and was definitely an insider, so even though she may not have been privy to this specific incident, she knew that stupid fuckshit like…

I don’t know...I think Debbie Allen got the bona fides, for real. I’m not saying she would beat Muva Jen, but I think there would be an actual ‘fight’ if it came to that. I don’t think she’d roll over or nut up.