The greatest restaurant ever is experimenting with a new kind of experience. Coming soon, Portillo’s will have a pick-up and delivery-only location in Joliet. The 3,750 square-foot restaurant will have three drive-thru lanes as well as a pick-up area for orders placed online or in the Portillo’s app, which will include a catering option.
The anticipated opening date for the location is in winter 2021. For information on applying for a position with the restaurant, visit portillos.com/careers.
TikTok has opened our eyes to an entirely new world. Height lengthening TikTok is a wild place.
Height lengthening TikTok is a wild place pic.twitter.com/dqOyj8BUoU
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) July 8, 2021
A 36-year-old father woke up one morning and couldn’t remember the past 20 years of his life. A rare brain condition caused him to forget everything, including who is daughter and wife were. Doctors diagnosed that he was suffering Transient Global Amnesia – which is usually a sudden, temporary interruption of short-term memory and that he would be back to normal within 24 hours. He even became angry when he first looked in the mirror, asking why he was “old and fat”.
He was diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia. The condition occurs in approximately 3 to 10 out of every 100,000 people, according to Cleveland Clinic.
More than 10K people have heard of the “Secret Burger” here in Chicago — are you one of them? Have you had one?
An unknown chef has been serving up the picture perfect dish every Saturday, 100 at a time. And the only way you can snag one is if you are following on Instagram.
The good news: you can still get in on the July drawing and it appears as though they will be ramping up production. So will you be one of the lucky Chicagoans who will be able to sink their teeth in that masterpiece? 🤔
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A new study shows that nearly one in six men do not have someone they would identify as a “close friend”. The news only gets worse from there, with the proportion saying they have at least six close friends plunging by half since 1990 from 55% to 27%, while the number without any at all is up five-fold from 3% to 15%, according to the American Perspectives Survey.
Hug your homies tight and keep them close. For those that identify as not having a close friend, your time will come.
A staple of Chicago is soon to no longer be with us. Southport Lanes, the bowling alley and bar (among other things) in Lakeview closed during the pandemic and will not reopen. The iconic location released a statement saying, “It’s the end of an era. We outlasted Prohibition and the 1918 Spanish flu, but not COVID-19. Southport Lanes poured its last beer on Sunday, September 27, 2020.”
Southport Lanes’ owners plan to liquidate everything inside and outside the building, according to an auction site related to the sale.
Wedding season is upon us and for some, it’s not an easy time. One listener checked in and wanted our thoughts on this situation.
What should he do? Sound off on Facebook!
“Sorry to bother you, ma’am, but that’s my baby.” is how we imagine this conversation went.
@brotherhqWell this is embarrassing. 😅😭 #parents #parentsoftiktok #kids #babies #babiesoftiktok #oops #fail #hilarious #sorry (Via: @HolyCow_Inc/Twitter)
Parenting is such a hard job, but this ranks on the Mount Rushmore of parenting fails.
We demand justice! For too long, hot dogs have been packaged unequally in our great nation. The Hot Dog Act aims to close the gap between the amount of hot dogs in a pack of hot dogs and the amount of hot dogs buns that are packaged together. Hot dog buns are traditionally baked in pans that accommodate four rolls, while hot dog manufacturers seemingly came to a consensus that ten was the ideal number when they first began to package them for retail consumption in the 1940s.
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Think about how terrifying this would be to experience.
You think this is bad? Just think about all of the unknown that swims below.
Keegan Casteel of Iowa has been charged with two felony counts of unlawful use of weapon. Casteel was arrested earlier this week after he was found in the W Chicago Lakeshore hotel with a .308-caliber rifle with a high-powered scope and laser sight attachment inside a 12th floor room.
Keegan Casteel charged after housekeeping at the W Chicago alerted CPD to rifle with a live round in the chamber, handgun and loaded rifle magazines on the window sill.
The rifle had a high-powered scope and Casteel was in a room overlooking the Ohio Street beach. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/QNOGENTktJ
— Megan Hickey (@MeganHickeyTV) July 6, 2021
Mayor Lori Lightfoot praised the hotel worker who reported Casteel for his quick thinking, “I want to thank the hotel worker who spotted this individual from Iowa who decided it was a good idea to come to our city with an arsenal, an AR-15, and five loaded magazines which he had perched up on the windowsill. Thank God for that hotel worker, who saw something, and said something, and I believe averted disaster,” she said.
Congratulations, Internet, this will be stuck in our head for the rest of the week.
A Chicagoland Karen was burnt to a crisp over the holiday weekend and now she’s wanting revenge. Here’s what someone sent us:
Where is this Karen from? Sound off on Facebook!
A man in Austria was doing his business early in the morning when a five-foot python slithered through the drains and bit him on his backside. The python belonged to a neighbor, which somehow makes all of this worse. The bite victim, a 65-year-old man, noted that he “felt a ‘nip’ in the genital area” after plopping down on the toilet.
The victim sustained only minor injuries, police said. Those injuries being a BITE TO THE GENITAL AREA. Sounds pretty major to us!
This is the first of many tough rejections this man will face in his entire life. Prayers up to our little homie.
He needs to use this as a teachable moment. No more public engagements. Next time you pop the question, do it in a secluded forest. No Ring doorbells, no smartphones, and no jumbotrons. Do this in the most discreet way possible in the future.
Roselle, this is your chance to legalize it! Residents can sound off on whether to allow recreational marijuana sales in their community at a public hearing Tuesday at the Roselle Village Hall. Per Fox 32, “Residents were asked should the village allow retail stores to sell cannabis to adults and whether the town should allow the “craft, growing, infusion, cultivation, processing and transportation of that cannabis,” within state guidelines.
The public hearing at the village hall Tuesday at 7 p.m. will give residents another chance to weigh in and start the conversation about the conditions for opening a business. Security measures, hours of operation and buffer requirements for the site are all details that would still need to work out.
A new CPS policy that was passed in December will be enacted next month. This will put both condoms and menstrual products in nearly all schools going forward for CPS. According to the Chicago Sun Times, “schools that teach fifth grade and up must maintain a condom availability program as part of an expanded vision of sexual health education. That means all but a dozen, which enroll only younger grades, of the more than 600 CPS schools will have condoms.”
It’s tremendous that CPS is offering menstrual products to those that need it, but what about condoms in schools? In a statement by CPS, they noted, “CPS stresses that choosing to not have sex is the norm for 5th graders. Parents/guardians should be notified by their school if a condom demonstration will be provided.”
A couple of years ago, the World Health Organization classified “workplace burnout” as a legitimate health issue a year after a professor at Stanford suggested over 150,000 Americans die on a yearly basis as a result of the “work” aspect of the “work-life balance” outweighing the latter to a fatal degree. There is now a growing push to change the American work week to a four-day week in an effort to curb work-related stress and health issues.
A new Icelandic study that took place over four years tracked 2,500 workers who worked for 35-36 hours a week. productivity remained the same or improved for the majority of workplaces, the study said. Participants worked at various places such as hospitals, offices, playschools and social service offices.
Des Plaines, you were warned. This Karen hates your fireworks and she’s going to let you know about it.
Dad move of the year. We have to respect the commitment to catching the ball, baby, and beer all in the same play.
