Every goddamn day: 10/28/26

     The news is flushing out my siblings lately.      Just as my sister Debbie showed up in Chicago, Pope Leo XIV went under the knife for ...

     Noticing this sign in the hallway of a Washington DC apartment building sent me tumbling down an interesting mental tangent.       I kn...

      The Chicago Sun-Times has no paywall, so depends on reader support. I've written several effective fundraising letters for the Sun...

Vent Haven Museum, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky         "Willful ignorance" is a familiar term, almost a cliche.      Yet you don't...

     Harry Weese was a great Chicago architect whose love of triangles has already been dissected here on EGD — his two most significant Ch...

Rendering of proposed Siskel and Ebert statue            My first thought: there already IS a bad statue of Roger Ebert , down in Champaign....

     I went to the Obama Presidential Center Museum on Monday, for an interview and to accompany my sister, visiting from Texas — it was the...