Today’s Wisch List column from the Kankakee Daily Journal and The (Ottawa, Ill.) Times … Chicago’s other March Madness The WISCH LIST March 27, 2010 Way back in 1970, when my dad was a budding 24-year-old distance-running junkie, he started logging every mile he ran inside spiral notebooks that he then stored in a nightstand […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Happy ‘Homecoming’: Wisch List returns to its roots
Last May, the Wisch List returned to print in the pages of my hometown area newspaper, the Kankakee Daily Journal. And, today, the Wisch List returns to its own roots, appearing for the first time in the pages of The Times in Ottawa, Ill., where I originally launched the column almost eight years ago on […]
Irish eyes on Chicago: What you might not know
Today’s Wisch List column from the Kankakee Daily Journal … Irish eyes on Chicago: What you might not know The WISCH LIST March 13, 2010 In August of 1993, I was in Colorado visiting family, and Harrison Ford was in Chicago avoiding capture. On the big screen, that is. That summer, the blockbuster flick, “The […]
Expansion? The Big Ten Dozen’t need it
Today’s Wisch List column from the Kankakee Daily Journal … Expansion? The Big Ten Dozen’t need it The WISCH LIST March 6, 2010 Just outside Chicago, not far off the Kennedy Expressway and within buzzing distance of O’Hare Airport, sits a nondescript two-story brick building neighbored by a cluster of modest homes and the machine […]