Just watched the saddest video on Gawker about a homeless man in Chicago named Ronald Davis who describes what it’s like to be homeless and often belittled by passers-by on the street. The video was filmed and uploaded a year ago but was recently picked up by Reddit in an effort to get the community to [...]
Here’s an interesting photo posted at the Blowout Cards forum of a pair of tickets to a Yankees vs Chicago White Sox baseball game that never took place. Why didn’t this game happen? Because it was scheduled for 7PM on 9/11/2001. I wonder what the value of these tickets are. They surely must be a collector’s [...]
I absolutely love this video from WBEZ that delves into the history of the relatively unknown “L” funeral cars that used to stop at various cemeteries in Chicago. According to local historian Joe Piersen, also the President of the Northwestern Historical Society, the “L” train funeral cars were put into service in about 1905 and could hold [...]
Photo: Reuters/John Gress In Focus has posted more photos of that Chicago warehouse fire that turned the building into a block of ice.
Photo: Robert R Gigliotti Colossal has posted some incredible photos of a warehouse fire in Chicago a few weeks ago that was properly put out during freezing temperatures causing the exterior to resemble an icebox. Check out more photos of this odd phenomenon here. Actually, it’s not that odd, but I guess it’s not every [...]
