12:32 p.m.,
Oct. 07, 2003
(Editor's note: While I wanted to note some recent developments that make this city wonderful, it is also an homage to a favorite Dooce entry.)
1. Our trash collectors turn down wage increases larger than they first asked for, and then appear on local television chanting "We wanna go back to work!"
2. Our crooked politicians never, ever give up.
3. John Cusack lives here. Sometimes. Or maybe he just visits a lot.
4. Our mayor is terrifying.
5. The city really will shut down the airport in the middle of the night to turn it into a park, and hope that no one will notice.
6. There is a Chicago Cubs-themed Taco Bell AND McDonalds. And they're across the street from each other.
7. You have to do something really, really stupid and beyond illegal to get pulled over.
8. When she was alive, Ann Landers would ride the El.
9. There is at least one hot dog/polish sausage stand about every three blocks. And one of them really is named Al's Fun in the Bun.
10. Our football field really does look like a spaceship now. Or a Roman toilet.