Author Archives: Dave

From the Saturday, May 21, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky It’s happened only once. And that was 110 years ago. But I’m still not quite ready for it to happen again. Back in 1906, the Chicago Cubs won 116 games to […]

From the Saturday, May 14, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky I went exploring on Wednesday morning. Left my condo on Chicago’s North Side, headed down to the South Loop, hung a left and hoofed it over to the Museum Campus, where […]

From the Saturday, May 7, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky So, the University of Illinois announced this week that it’s taking steps towards selecting the school’s first-ever mascot. Except that it’s not. That’s because Illinois has actually had a mascot before […]

From the Saturday, April 30, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky If April showers really do bring May flowers, then after this wet week we should get enough to fill the Chicago Botanical Garden twice over. Maybe three times. Now, I can’t […]

From the Saturday, April 23, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky It’s back. After spending more than five decades in New York City, the NFL Draft migrated west to Chicago last spring and was such a hit – drawing upwards of 200,000 […]

From the Saturday, April 16, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky The folks at the Internal Revenue Service may not give us any breaks, but it was nice of them to at least give us an extension this year. Even if it’s […]

From the Saturday, April 11, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky A funny thing happened on the way to 2016. The Chicago Cubs became a baseball team again. Now, yes, the club technically played that sport at Wrigley Field from 2010 to […]

From the Saturday, April 2, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … By Dave Wischnowsky The WISCH LIST When it comes to April, people have been fooling each other for at least six centuries. So don’t be embarrassed if you fell for one on Friday. Well, you know, unless […]

From the Saturday, March 26, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … By Dave Wischnowsky THE WISCH LIST By Illinois standards, this winter was a mild one. In Chicago, there were only four days below zero and just 17 with even a trace of snow. Over the two previous […]

With the hiring of a big-name football coach (good)), the arrests of two more basketball players (bad) and a lot of buzz about the fate of the school’s embattled basketball coach (ugly), it’s been a busy few weeks for the University of Illinois. And it’s been a busy few weeks for me talking about the […]