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Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Raymond Lopez got into a foul mouthed shouting match over the cities handling of looters and violence that has occurred in the city.
Really goes to show you not to mess with Lightfoot, she’s not afraid to speak her mind.
It would be nice if City officials could work together in a professional manner though…
Thanks to the pandemic the Chicago area is getting two new drive-in movie theatres.
Tonight the Chi-Town Futbol facility, 2343 S. Throop Street, will show movies in its parking lot on a 40-foot projection screen. The price is $33 per vehicle for up to five adults and $5 additional charge for each extra adult. The first featured film will be, “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.”
On Thursday, Chicago Drive-In Theaters is opening a location at SeatGeek Stadium, 7000 S. Harlem Avenue, in Bridgeview. Movies will screen at 8:30 p.m., with midnight movies on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $30-$50 per vehicle. The opening night movie will be “The Goonies.”
From the opening notes of that synth-wave theme song which sent goosebumps up my arms, ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ scared the crap out of me
with stories of unsolved terrifying stories of missing people, murders, ghosts, and other generally creepy things that reportedly really happened. Netflix is rebooting the show with producers of the hit series ‘Stranger Things’ on July 1st.
The show started in 1987 and has ran on NBC, CBS, Lifetime, and Spike with sternly-voiced actor Robert Stack and former Chicago Police officer-turned-actor Dennis Farina serving as hosts. The new revived series will be “pure documentary style” according to producers.
FilmRise has controlled the streaming TV rights to the series and they have restored the series. You can stream multiple seasons now for free on YouTube.
The owners and the players have gone back and forth in testy negotiations on how to handle a shortened 2020 seasons, but the latest amended proposal was put out by the league to the players yesterday with “significantly more money” being offered according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The two sides do not seem to be close on an agreement.
There is a lot of challenges to making it all work out especially with player compensation, the amount of games, draft selections, and what would happen if there is a second Coronavirus outbreak in the fall right around the time the World Series playoffs would start.
The sports world has been adapting to our COVID-19 circumstances with the NHL, NBA, PGA, and MLS have already put plans into action to get play back with no fans and cameras rolling to broadcast the action. Baseball is trailing behind other leagues which have made adaptions, but would it be summer without us talking trash between Cubs and White Sox fans?
Sports podcast good guy Pat McAfee laid into the whole issue proclaiming this could be really bad if a deal can not be reached soon.
Drive-in movies are coming to Bridgeview this week, as Chicago Drive-In Theatres begin operation.
SeatGeek Stadium will host movies every night, starting at 8:30pm. The early shows will all be family-friendly, while weekend “midnight movies” will be tailored to a more mature audience. The screen is 70 ft., and audio will be transmitted through car radios.
Tickets can be found here. They’re 30 bucks a car, or 50 bucks if you want something closer to the screen. Hand sanitizer stations will be abundant, and concessions will be available. The schedule kicks off Thursday night with “The Goonies,” which is good enough for me.
Anthony J.:
“Engineers designed new sides for the sidewalk to help with wind resistance but didn’t take into account the EXTREME sound it creates when wind passes through it. The bridge sings crazy songs now it’s so trippy. It hurts the ears and unbearable it’s that loud.” pic.twitter.com/GWdVia1GNS