Today’s newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … Chicago’s history of heists is a rich one The WISCH LIST Jan. 28, 2012 From “Ocean’s Eleven” to “Inception,” “The Usual Suspects” to “The Italian Job,” and “The Sting” to, heck, “The Great Muppet Caper,” I’ve always been fascinated by […]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Taking a few more swings at Hall of Fame voting
This weekend’s newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … Taking a few more swings at Hall of Fame voting The WISCH LIST Jan. 21, 2012 Last weekend in downtown Chicago, the Cubs Convention passed for the second straight year without Ron Santo in attendance. Come this summer in […]
Chicago’s Chinatown celebrates its first century
From the Saturday, Jan. 14, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … Chicago’s Chinatown celebrates its first century The WISCH LIST Jan. 14, 2012 The drive from downtown Ottawa to the corner of Cermak Road and Archer Avenue on Chicago’s South Side is a distance of only 82 miles. […]
Start the New Year off right in Chicago
This weekend’s newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … Start the New Year off right in Chicago The WISCH LIST Jan. 7, 2012 The holidays are over (according to the Gregorian calendar) and the end of the world is nigh (according to the Mayan one). But in between […]