I just got off the phone with a genuine Chicago voice in print. He writes for one of the the two big Chicago Dailies.

We shot the breeze about a mutual friend who is having a particularly tough time - that friend is also in the cold and impersonal world of modern journalism.

Our conversation turned to things political -

If you are a City news junkie, or love politics, or horrors, are both, then come join us at the Windy Citizen as we watch our City Council.

"Voters in more than two dozen suburbs give mayors or village presidents the boot