If you’re going to be driving around the neighborhoods, download the ParkChicago app advertised on all the street signs. Paying at the box is super obnoxious and this app lets you add time to your parking without having to go back and put your card in the box again.

Agreed on Lower Wacker - but highly recommend studying your map in detail before getting down there. There’s no cell service, so any mapping app you try to use (Google, Apple, Waze, etc.) will go utterly haywire. Driving on Lower Wacker is stressful enough as it is (so many pillars!), so don’t add getting lost to your…

What Scott Pruitt is doing in meeting with industry personnel is not unique to him as an EPA head. Past EPA heads did it and allllll the state level EPA heads do it, too. Not trying to defend him whatsoever. I am so glad this shit is finally getting called out. Just want to provide everyone with a kind of wake up call…

Yeah, he really does seem like a long shot for Governor at this point. I did take a few minutes to read through his platform just now and it’s my personal liberal bucket list. His Lieutenant Governor pick is so well chosen, too - a mayor from a bigger downstate town (Cairo) who checks all the boxes: Black, Veteran, 4…

I still have to do a lot of research on the bevy of gubernatorial candidates that have popped up already, but I will say that a few years back I lived in Amaya Pawar’s ward in Chicago and he was definitely the most involved Alderman I’ve lived under of all the various I’ve experienced.

I had a friend experience this as well and I was actually the one that had to tell her that her guy friend had died after being stabbed by an “upstanding youth pastor” in a bar because guy friend’s buddy had made fun of the youth pastor’s Ed Hardy shirt. Bro’s church then had the gall to go around town asking for…

Equally as shitty is a company with unlimited PTO getting bought out by a company that does not have unlimited PTO, then the new company only giving 2 weeks vacation to the most senior guys on staff who are 30+ years into their careers but only 3 years into their positions with the company. With no room for…

I am 36 weeks pregnant with a very low sitting kid in my belly, and even I don’t need to spread that wide. Good god.

If my kid and Beyonce’s twins wind up having the same birth date, that awesomeness will totally cancel out the awful fact that my husband and I share a wedding anniversary with Kim and Kanye, right?

Found ourselves at a Ford dealership last November looking for an SUV for my husband. The dealership let their employees take a new car off the lot and use it as their personal vehicle for a month, which I thought was a nice employee perk and a good way to get their sales people deeply educated about their products.…

That story is from May 2012.

Thought this happened months ago. One of my college friends moved to Colorado with her boyfriend who happens to be close friends with Ben from childhood. She posts pictures of them hanging out with Ben and the rest of their group of couple friends all the time. Lauren has been in none of these shots. I just figured…

I like how it was a running 30 Rock gag that NBC was trying everything in its power to get back to its “Must See TV” heyday and now Tina Fey’s new show is involved in its latest attempt.

When I boarded the bus to work Friday morning (in Chicago), every seat was taken. I am a very obviously 35-weeks pregnant lady. I got on, paid my fare, then started walking down the aisle looking for a seat. No one offered me one.

Apparently she does. Look, I don’t care that she has 3 kids by 2 different baby daddies by age 26. It’s her life and she can do whatever she chooses reproductively and more power to her. What galls me is that she runs around making a living off preaching what she very very obviously has never practiced - abstinence in…

Excellent stories. My senior year, my boyfriend and I were quite nerdy and not at all part of the popular group, but inexplicably he was voted Homecoming King. Pirates of the Caribbean (the original) had just come out around that time, so we decided to go to the dance dressed as pirates. A snooty girl who I was on the…

A guy I dated at the beginning of freshman year of high school before he came out as gay was supposed to be on the show for his 18th birthday party. I was not invited. I was mildly amused to find out filming for his episode was cancelled either because his parents were too demanding or he was too boring. Those reasons…

Western Fashion is far from representative of all global Fashion. There are high end designers making “traditional outfits” that host their own runway shows featuring garments that cost thousands and thousands of US dollars, just like fashion shows in the US and Europe. Maybe Vogue Arabia features those clothes?!

I had a friend in Chicago who had a salon on the first floor of her apartment building. She said it was tucked back in a corner, but went down there one day to try to get her brows done before a last minute event. She was shoo’d out by the girl working the desk before she could even get close enough to say anything.…

Honestly, if I weren’t married to a POC, I’m not sure I would have loved the show as much as I did. I related to it so well because so much of what Dev experienced, I’ve lived through with my husband and I’ve learned about through his perspective. I probably wouldn’t have had the frame of reference needed to “get it”…