The Chicago band’s founder Billy Corgan called her ‘wise beyond her years, whip smart, cool but not hipster-prone.’
Melissa Matuzak grew up in a small Michigan town, moved to Detroit the day after high school graduation and worked her way up from passing out concert flyers to managing the Smashing Pumpkins.
Organized, driven and possessed of a reputation for solving problems before they could fester, she reinvented herself as a criminal defense lawyer in Chicago, working on wrongful-conviction cases and a bid to reduce the sentence of Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
“She’d had experience managing people, experience with all the kinds of things on the road,” said defense lawyer Andrea Lyon, a former dean of Valparaiso University Law School. “Her ability to see the center of the case, what the real question was, was really amazing.”
Pumpkins founder Billy Corgan posted on Instagram that she was “wise beyond her years, whip smart, cool but not hipster-prone; as evidenced by her responsible work in the music business at such a young age.”
Ms. Matuzak died Friday of bile duct cancer. She was 51.
In her off hours, Ms. Matuzak sang in the band The Drawers and kept bees at her West Side home. She and her husband Joe Vanderstappen gave away the honey under the label “K-Town Honey.”
Corgan, who met her in Detroit in the early 1990s, posted this about her: “I used to tell Melissa that she had a quality that reminded me of my Mother (let’s called [sic] it a somewhat detached ability to be above the fray of human drama, but somehow not lose one’s empathy in it or or towards it). . . .this is how we first connected: I, the upstart in some band coming through town, and she as the rep in the front office who was to make sure that young punks like us were happy and didn’t tear up the dressing rooms.”
Around 2000, Corgan said, they wound up managing the Smashing Pumpkins together.
She also worked with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and other up-and-coming bands, according to her husband.
Posting on Facebook, Michigan club owner and promoter Amir Daiza wrote of Ms. Matuzak: “You are responsible for the success of the Detroit music scene 30 years ago.”
Young Melissa grew up in Alpena, Michigan. Her father Bradley was a heavy equipment operator at a quarry.
“She was not a small-town girl in her mind,” said her friend Jill Schumacher.
Ms. Matuzak’s husband said she left for Detroit the day after she finished high school.
She started working at Ritual, a concert promotion company, booking shows at venues including Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall, according to Schumacher, who worked for her.
“She embedded herself quickly in the music scene there and made a name for herself as a concert promoter,” her husband said. “She didn’t take any bull—.”
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In 1998, she moved to Chicago. She met Vanderstappen, a metal artisan, when he was working next door to the Smashing Pumpkins’ recording studio. After a first date at Garfield Park Conservatory, she left for a Pumpkins tour.
“A lot of our courtship was old-fashioned, over the phone,” he said.
They got married in 2017.
After graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she started law school at DePaul University.
“She always had this principled sense, this moral sense,” her husband said. “She never screwed anyone over. She believed in equal treatment under the law.”
Another instructor at DePaul, attorney Leonard Goodman, remembered how, as a paralegal, she combed through thousands of documents in a federal securities-fraud case until “she was able to find the gold” — evidence that led to a not guilty verdict. She spotted letters that showed the defendant had been duped by a con man, Goodman said.
Later, she helped win a not guilty verdict in a first–degree murder case in downstate Illinois.
“She did a lot of good in a short career,” Goodman said.
Lyon, who was one of her law school professors, said Ms. Matuzak helped get John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell exonerated in a 2003 murder case.
Lyon, who is helping to organize a DePaul scholarship fund in her name, said she treasures a moment from Ms. Matuzak’s graduation. Lyon had given her a decorative pin with a sword–and-rose design that previously had been given to her by New Mexico defense attorney Randi McGinn.
“She walks across the stage, stops in front of me, crosses her arms over her chest and bows,” Lyon said.
Ms. Matuzak is also survived by her mother Barbara Burton and brother Bradley. Funeral arrangements are pending, according to her husband.
He said she didn’t like President Donald Trump, so, “I’m glad that she lived to see him get booted out of office.”
Richard Driehaus outside the Driehaus Museum in 2012. | Sun-Times File
Starting on the South Side, he saved, mastered the stock market, and backed causes that ranged from excellence in architecture and fashion to education and good government.
Richard Driehaus knew what he liked — in stocks, classical architecture, the performing arts, parties and old cars. A hard worker since his youth as a newspaper carrier, he attained a life of privilege without forgetting how to have a good time or help others.
The name itself is evidence of his generosity. It’s on a museum, a foundation, an architecture prize, a fashion competition, numerous academic buildings and programs, and on awards celebrating historic preservation and the Chicago bungalow. Eager to help students at St. Xavier University learn about the service industry and running businesses, he donated to the school a Mount Greenwood pub, Gilhooley’s, along with the shopping plaza containing it.
“He would say this a lot, ‘The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open,’” said Eli Boufis, who worked with Mr. Driehaus for 20 years and with him started Driehaus Private Equity. He said open-mindedness informed Mr. Driehaus’ lifelong success in investing and his embrace of new products and technology. “He never got old in his strategy,” Boufis said.
Mr. Driehaus, 78, died Tuesday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Boufis said. He said Mr. Driehaus had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage the night before at his home.
Known throughout the financial world as an early practitioner of “momentum investing,” which calls for spotting stocks on prolonged upward trends, Mr. Driehaus founded Driehaus Capital Management in 1982. Today, it manages $13.2 billion through its mutual funds and other accounts. He expanded into private equity later.
The capital management business is in a Romanesque building at 25 E. Erie St. Mr. Driehaus lovingly preserved the Chicago landmark, originally home to a 19th century railroad magnate. His Driehaus Museum, devoted to Gilded Age flourishes, is in another landmark at 40 E. Erie St.
In 2000, Barron’s named him to its “all-century” team of 25 individuals it identified as most influential in the mutual fund industry. For all his success in Wall Street, Mr. Driehaus cherished the outlook and friendships Chicago bestowed. He told a City Club of Chicago audience in 2016, “In New York, I’m just another successful guy. You can’t make an impact in New York. But in Chicago, you can because it’s big enough and it’s small enough and people actually get along enough” — a line that drew cheers.
Mr. Driehaus used to say his life was influenced by his father’s difficulty affording a nicer home. He told the Chicago Sun-Times in 1996 that he saved $1,000 from his paper route in Brainerd on the city’s Far South Side and, at 13, invested in stocks recommended by financial columnists. The stocks tanked, teaching him about the market and the wisdom of financial columnists. He resolved to get smart on his own and find a career that would let him own the home he wanted.
He ended up owning several, including a Lake Geneva estate that became another preservation project. His annual summer birthday parties there, complete with fireworks and a guest list topping 1,000 people, were legendary. His 2019 version with a James Bond theme and an appearance by Diana Ross was a particular hit.
For all the hoopla, Mr. Driehaus cared not to be the center of attention, but to entertain others and to maintain close connection to his three daughters, Boufis said.
Mr. Driehaus earned a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from DePaul University, where he endowed a center for behavioral finance. In 2002, the university gave him an honorary doctorate. He also supported St. Ignatius College Prep at St. Margaret of Scotland parish.
His philanthropy extended to numerous organizations representing many civic interests. Among them was the watchdog organization the Better Government Association. Andy Shaw, the BGA’s former president, said a series of meetings and “a lovely dinner over a couple bottles of wine in 2010” resulted in a $1 million donation, the organization’s largest ever.
“Richard is a Chicago legend and icon — a great rags-to-riches, ‘neighborhood-kid-makes-good’ success story, and one of the most generous and eclectic philanthropists in Chicago,” Shaw said.
In addition to his daughters, Tereza, Caroline and Kate, survivors include two sisters, said Stasi Radaios, administrative assistant at the private equity firm.
Is Pi Day the best day in March? It might be. With deals like these you bet that adult Pi Day is as lit as kid Pi Day was in elementary school. See, back in that age 8-12 range Pi Day was just the day that your math teacher made your entire class recite 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628 until someone messed it up or the day that one of the ‘cool’ teachers volunteered to let a 9 year old throw a fresh lemon meringue in their face in the cafeteria.
Adult Pi Day is celebrated with pizza and alcohol at nice restaurants and includes things like béchamel, nduja, and other delicious ingredients sprinkled atop the better iteration of pie. If you are looking for celebration ideas, we have created a list of the best deals offered at popular restaurants in Chicago for Pi Day.
West Loop hotspot offers neapolitan style pizzas with a wide selection of toppings including the “Loaded Baked Potato” featuring sliced potato, bacon, parmesan béchamel, mozzarella, white cheddar, and scallion. Additionally, they have a “Burrata and Balsamic” pizza, “Smoked BBQ Chicken” pizza, and many more. They also serve a variety of brunch pizzas including a “Shakshuka Pizza” featuring shakshuka sauce, eggs, peppers, onion, mozzarella, feta, and mint.
Dough Daddy’s, a new virtual restaurant based out of Chicago’s West Loop, is available exclusively for takeout and delivery through GrubHub. An excellent celebration idea for Pi Day is to travel to this pop-up restaurant to experience delicious Detroit-style pizzas created with a special sourdough starter offered by Chef Noah Zamler. Signature pizzas include: Whatcha Ndujin topped with Nduja, lemon ricotta, blistered tomato, and basil pesto, A Perfect Pear, topped with Butternut Squash, Pear, Pancetta, and Gouda, and Uh Luv Burrata, topped with chili honey, burrata, olive pesto and artichokes
For The Dearborn’s reopening this week, Executive Chef Aaron Cuschieri offers craveable, instant classics and Dearborn favorites for dine-in, takeout and delivery. Leaning into the “tavern” in their name, Cuschieri offers a new assortment of Chicago tavern-style pizzas with creative toppings, including a brunch pizza on weekends and their wide variety make it the perfect spot for Pi Day.
Another new virtual restaurant in the city, Chef Bill Kim offers Detroit-style pizza out of Urbanbelly’s kitchen through Chef Bill Kim’s Pizza & Parm Shop. If you’re brainstorming celebration ideas for Pi Day, we recommend ordering the Korean BBQ pizza or building your own meal.
Six-time Michelin Bib Gourmand winner, Wood, serves the ultimate wood oven flatbread for Pi Day this year. Indulge in homemade dough, mornay sauce, caramelized onions, glazed mushrooms, baby arugula, and grand cru alpine cheese.
An excellent idea for Pi Day is to travel to the heart of River North to order classic Italian fare at Nonnina. This restaurant offers a wide variety of pizzas including Margarita, Chicken and Spinach, Leek and Mushroom, Crispy Calamari, and Pepperoni pizza.
Hotel housekeeper Esther Montanez refuses to give up hope of returning to her cleaning job at the Hilton Back Bay in Boston. She worked there for six years until being furloughed in March 2020 because of slow business in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Charles Krupa / AP
The coronavirus recession could mean that demand for people in such jobs as waiters, cashiers, front-desk clerks and ticket takers might never regain its previous highs.
Esther Montanez’s housecleaning job at the Hilton Back Bay in Boston was a lifeline for the 31-year-old single mother of a 5-year-old son.
The pay was steady and solid — enough to pay her bills and have money left to sock away for a savings account for her child. Montanez liked her co-workers and felt pride in her work.
But when the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago, igniting a devastating recession, it swept away her job along with many tens of millions of others.
Since then, in desperation, Montanez has siphoned money from her son’s savings to pay her bills.
At Christmas, she turned to charities to provide presents for him.
She’s getting by on unemployment aid and, for the first time, has applied for food stamps.
“I want my job back,” said Montanez, who, with her former colleagues, is working through their union to press the hotel to reinstate their jobs.
Getting a lost job back could be a struggle for her and millions of other unemployed people around the world. Even as vaccines increasingly promise a return to something close to normal life, the coronavirus seems sure to leave permanent scars on the job market.
At least 30% of the U.S. jobs lost to the pandemic aren’t expected to come back — a sizable number of them at employers that require face-to-face contact with consumers: hotels, restaurants, retailers, entertainment venues.
The threat to workers in those occupations, many of them low-wage earners, marks a sharp reversal from the 2008-2009 Great Recession, when middle- and higher-wage construction, factory, office and financial services workers bore the brunt of job losses.
No one knows exactly what the job market will look like when the virus finally ends its rampage.
Will consumers feel confident enough to return in significant numbers to restaurants, bars, movie theaters and shops, allowing those businesses to employ as many people as they did before?
How much will white-collar professionals continue to work from home, leaving downtown business districts all but empty during the week?
Will business travel fully rebound now that companies have seen the ease with which co-workers can collaborate on video platforms at far less cost?
“Jobs are changing — industries are changing,” said Loretta Penn, chair of the Virginia Ready Initiative, which helps workers develop new skills and find new jobs. “We’re creating a new normal every day.’’
The habits that people have grown accustomed to in the pandemic — working, shopping, eating and enjoying entertainment from home — could end up being permanent for many. Though these trends predated the virus, the pandemic accelerated them. Depending on how widely such habits stick, demand for waiters, cashiers, front-desk clerks and ticket takers might never regain its previous highs.
In a study, Steven Davis of the University of Chicago, José María Barrero of Mexico’s ITAM Business School and Nick Bloom of Stanford University concluded that 32% to 42% of COVID-induced layoffs will be permanent.
University of ChicagoSteven Davis: Study found 32% to 42% of coronavirus-induced layoffs will be permanent.
The consulting firm McKinsey & Co. estimates that the United States will lose 4.3 million jobs in customer and food service in the next decade.
The U.S. Labor Department estimated last month that, if the ’s lasting economic effects were limited mainly to increased work from home, job growth over the next 10 years will slow to 2.9%.
But if the pandemic exerts a deeper, longer-lasting impact — with many consumers going less frequently to restaurants, movie theaters and shopping centers — job growth would slow to just 1.9%, the department predicted. In that worst-case scenario, itestimated, employment would tumble 13% for waiters and waitresses, 14% for bartenders, 16% for fast-food cooks and 22% for hotel desk clerks.
The coronavirus recession has been especially cruel, victimizing people at the bottom of the pay scale. Lael Brainard, one of the Federal Reserve’s governors, said last month that the poorest 25% of American workers were facing “Depression-era rates of unemployment of around 23%” in mid-January — nearly quadruple the national jobless rate.
The Fed also reported last month that employment in the lowest-paid jobs was running 20% below pre-pandemic levels. For the highest-paying jobs, by contrast, the shortfall was just 5%.
Services workers had long been thought to be safe from the threats that menaced factory employment: foreign competition and automation. More and more, though, as employers have tried to save money in a time of uncertainty and promote social distancing in the workplace, machines are reaching beyond the factory floor and into retail, restaurants and hotels.
Tamura Jamison came back to a changed job when she was recalled to work in June as a front-desk agent at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, owned by Caesars Entertainment. Her hours were cut from 40 to about 32 a week, resulting in a pay cut of about $700 a month.
Just 26 of 45 workers on her team were brought back. Existing self-service kiosks used to be optional for guests checking in. No longer, Now, agents must direct guests to the kiosks and intervene only if needed. That means fewer commissions for room upgrades, which guests can request on their own.
As a union shop steward, Jamison knows that her missing colleagues won’t likely be recalled.
“At this point,” she said, “they have to move on with their lives.”
Jamison wonders whether the front-desk operation eventually will be eliminated altogether, the jobs lost to automation. Guests will soon have keys on their smartphones, allowing them to go directly to their rooms.
“This is the start of a new Vegas,” Jamison said. “The front desk doesn’t really have to be there. There are ways to eliminate our jobs.”
In a study last month, Stefania Albanesi of the University of Pittsburgh and Jiyeon Kim of the Korea Development Institute warned that many companies could replace employees with machines rather than redesign workspaces to facilitate social distancing and reduce the threat of infection in a world still fearful of the virus or other health threats.
The services occupations that have absorbed the biggest job losses, they say, “have high susceptibility to automation.” That “raises the prospect that, as the economy recovers, at least some of the jobs lost may not be reinstated.’’
Few places have been hurt more ruinously by the pandemic than Las Vegas, whose economy is powered by out-of-town visitors and live entertainment. Until 12 months ago, Sharon Beza was among 283,000 workers in the city’s tourism and hospitality field. She had worked as a cocktail waitress at Eastside Cannery hotel-casino from the time it opened in 2008 to the day she was furloughed a year ago. Over the summer, her job was eliminated.
Now a part-time cashier at an Albertsons grocery store, Beza is still seeking full-time work in the restaurant industry, in which she worked for 37 years. She’s holding out hope that Las Vegas will rebound and that tourists will return to restaurants, hotels and casinos. But it might be impossible, she knows, for laid-off workers like her to land jobs that offer the kinds of solid wages, tips and benefits they used to enjoy.
In Europe, government jobs programs have prevented a devastating rise in unemployment. Unemployment in January was 8.1%, up only modestly from 7.4% a year earlier. Yet an economic reckoning has begun, with companies in the worst-hit sectors envisioning years of reduced demand.
Consider commercial airlines. Lufthansa’s workforce shrank from 138,000 to 110,000 in 2020. British Airways plans to cut 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. The United Kingdom-based regional airline Flybe took 2,000 jobs with it when it collapsed a year ago.
Germany’s hotel and restaurant association says that, despite government support to help maintain payrolls, employment sank from 2.45 million pre-pandemic to 2.09 million. Holger Schaefer, a labor economist with the German Economic Institute in Cologne, said that behavioral changes — more digital meetings, for example, and less business travel — would result in permanent job losses in some companies.
But some other sectors of the economy should benefit from pent-up demand once the virus is defeated, Schaefer thinks. He’s optimistic about restaurants, for one.
“There is a fundamental demand for such services,” he said. “I can’t imagine that when everyone is vaccinated and it’s safe, that there will still be problems in that area.”
In Xuzhou, a Chinese city northwest of Shanghai, Guan Li, a convenience store owner, said he hired four out-of-work relatives but had to lay them off after sales fell by half. Now, he and his wife run the shop themselves.
“People just don’t want to buy,” said Guan, who is close to 60.
He and his wife plan to retire because the shop’s income might no longer cover their costs. Owners of two similar shops nearby also plan to close, he said.
In Egypt, Mohammed Gamal used to earn a decent living working six days a week at a café in Giza, the twin city of Cairo. But pandemic restrictions and dwindling business shrank his workweek and slashed his income by more than half. It didn’t help when the government banned “sheesha,” the hookah water pipe that’s popular across the Middle East and is a major moneymaker for cafes.
In mid-2020, he sent his wife and two children back to his parents’ house in Beni Mazar, south of Cairo. Now, he shares a room with a friend to save on rent.
“I just work three days a week, and this is not enough even for a single person,” said Gamal, 31.
In Mexico City, Gerardo González, wearing a suit, a black mask and a plastic face shield, waited recently on the sidewalk outside the delivery service Didi. He had hoped to find work a month after he lost his job at a bakery where he did cleaning and displayed merchandise,
He’s applied for jobs at five companies.
“I can’t get anything,” said González, 51, who supports his wife and two young children. To meet his family’s expenses, he’s burned through his savings.
“We hope that with the vaccine, things will start going back to normal,” he said.
Melinda Harmon lost a job she loved as a bartender at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum last year. First, she found work as a health care aide for $9.25 an hour. Even after getting a raise to $10, she struggled to support her two sons. Frustrated, she resigned and took a job as a security guard for $12 an hour. She’s been switching off lights to save money for electricity and has had to delay haircuts for her two beloved Pomeranians.
Yet she remains optimistic that the Fiserv Forum will reopen and that she one day will be mixing drinks for Bucks fans again.
“I do believe things will go back,” said Harmon, 39.
In New York, Bill Zanker is also envisioning a comeback after being forced to close Grit Bxng, his luxury gym. He’s raising money to launch an at-home fitness business in the fall, which eventually will mean hiring to support a online business, including customer service and supply specialists.
Rick Bowmer / APBill Zanker, seen here in Park City, Utah, shut down his Grit Bxng gym in Manhattan in March 2020 butr is envisioning a comeback.
Still, Zanker is hopeful that his Manhattan gym, known for its cocktail bar and backed by billionaire Tony Robbins and others, will come roaring back. Before the pandemic forced its closing, Zanker said, classes would be booked for the entire week within two hours each Monday morning. With the bar typically packed, he had been on the verge of opening a second location.
“There is so much pent-up demand,” Zanker said. “People after class are going to want to hang out and socialize. It’s like after Prohibition: Party like there’s no tomorrow.”
However things shake out, the pandemic disruption to the job market is likely to require millions of workers to find new careers. Reviewing the job outlook in eight major economies, McKinsey estimated that 100 million workers — one in 16 — will need to change occupations by 2030. In the United States, McKinsey said, workers who will need retraining are most likely to have a lost low-income job and to be Black, Hispanic or female.
Getty ImagesSusan Lund of McKinsey & Co.: U.S. lacks any national program to retrain people for the jobs of the future.
“You can take people in these unskilled positions and teach them,” said Susan Lund, an author of the consultancy’s report on the jobs of the future. But in the United States, she said, “The problem is, we have not scaled it up. We do not a have a national program to do it.’’
The United States spends a fraction of what other rich countries do on programs that are designed to help workers make career transitions. And a bewildering web of employment and training programs often leaves workers confused. The programs tend to focus on helping laid-off factory workers — not the unemployed chefs and sales clerks who are likely to be most in need in the pandemic’s aftermath.
“We make people jump through insane hoops just to get advice on getting a new job,” said Annelies Goger, who studies training programs as a fellow at the Brookings Institution. “We make it extremely challenging.’
In a paper last year, David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology warned that dwindling demand for low-paid workers without college degrees won’t coincide with job opportunities for “these same workers in middle-paid jobs… Those displaced may suffer significant hardship as they seek new work, potentially in occupations where they have no experience or training.”
Contributing: David McHug, Frances D’Emilio, Maria Grazia Murru, Joe McDonald, Yu Bing, Zen Soo, Chen Si, Sam Magdy, Sam Metz, Fabiola Sánchez
People watch the Air and Water Show from North Avenue Beach. | Victor Hilitski/For the Sun-Times
Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.
Good afternoon. Here’s the latest news you need to know in Chicago. It’s about a 5-minute read that will brief you on today’s biggest stories.
This afternoon will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a high near 68 degrees. Tonight, more rain is in the forecast, along with a low around 53 degrees. Tomorrow will bring more showers, mainly before 11 a.m., with a high near 58 degrees.
A City Council committee today authorized a full calendar of the special events Chicagoans treasure — including Taste of Chicago and the Air and Water Show — hoping the city’s $1.8 billion share of new federal stimulus funds can help bankroll those large-scale summer gatherings.
With vaccinations surging and coronavirus cases dropping, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has asked the Chicago Police Department to prepare security plans for Lollapalooza and other massive events.
Just this week, the mayor delighted Cubs and Sox fans by allowing them to return to Wrigley Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, though at 20% of capacity.
The City Council’s Special Events Committee authorized the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events to hold the “full calendar” of events it normally puts on. That includes everything from Taste of Chicago to the Air and Water Show to the Blues, Jazz and Gospel festivals.
“We are continuing with our discussions with the fifth floor [mayor’s office]. And we are hopeful that there may be in the [Biden stimulus] bill when it’s passed some additional support for arts and culture,” said Mark Kelly, Chicago’s commissioner of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
“I will say that, even though we have a 49% [budget] cut, we’ll be making some announcements in the next several weeks that speak to an ambitious agenda for arts and culture as we, hopefully, emerge” from the pandemic.
Goose Island Beer Co.. is giving away 50 bicycles to celebrate “312 Day” on March 12, to anyone who can find and redeem one of 50 giant lemons strategically scattered across Chicago.
The giveaway coincides with Goose Island’s launch of 312 Lemonade Shandy, “a new beer inspired by Chicago’s classic street corner Italian ice stands.” The 312 Lemonade Shandy is lemony, crisp and refreshing, balanced by acidity, Goose Island said.
Goose IslandRedeem one of these giant lemons for a Goose Island-branded bike on Friday.
All “lucky lemon finders” can redeem the giant citrus at the Fulton Street Taproom (1800 W. Fulton) on Friday for one bicycle (one bike per person/lemon); fans (21+over) will be able to check out the new beer at the official 312 Lemonade Shandy stand/taproom as well.
Hawks captain Jonathan Toews also made his first public appearance of sorts in 2021 by giving Kane some love in a tribute video the team posted. “Wish I was there to celebrate with you. See you soon, man,” Toews, who remains sidelined due to unspecified health issues, said.
Which major Chicago event do you hope you can attend this summer?
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Yesterday, we asked you: With the news that Chicago traffic was ranked third-worst in the country, what’s the most congested street in your neighborhood? Here’s what some of you said…
“Sheridan Road. People from the suburbs use it as a de facto extension of Lake Shore Drive as they commute between downtown and the North Shore.” — Dennis Fritz
“Lights on 87th, Pulaski, Southwest highway and Metra tracks.” — Mary Sweeney
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