Multiple schools in Chicago, Rockford, and Dixon received a series of phone calls yesterday claiming that there were active shooters on school grounds. No active shooters were confirmed in any of these instances. Police believe these calls to be so called “swatting” pranks.
Our thoughts are with those who were needlessly disrupted by these events.
Last night, the Bulls squeaked out a play-in tournament victory against the Toronto Raptors last night, winning 109-105. The deciding factor in this game was not incredible offense from Zach Lavine, tough defense from Patrick Beverley, or DeMar DeRozan’s clutch play, but rather Demar DeRozan’s daughter, who caused the Raptors to miss 18 free throws in what turned out to be a season-ending loss.
The Bulls will now play the Heat on Friday for the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Clear your schedule on April 5. ‘AIR: The Courting of a Legend’, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis, and others will hit theaters and tell the story of Nike and Air Jordan.
“AIR reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.”
Air is currently in theaters.
The owners of Palatine’s Durty Nellie’s, a popular bar and music venue, have announced that they plan on tearing down their establishment and doing something “entirely different”. Co-owner James Dolezal said, “We have loved the evolution of Durty Nellie’s in Palatine, from starting out on the east side of the downtown, to our current location – but our venue has become too large for what customers are looking for today…We have thought long and hard about this decision and taken it very seriously; this proposed new development will help us to stay in the community that we love to serve.”
Per NBC 5, “If approved by the village, the redevelopment plans for the property at 180-190 N. Smith St. would create a six-story, “mixed-use luxury apartment building with commercial uses on the ground floor and roof.” The 18,000-square-foot space would include 85 “high end residential units” and 10,000 square feet of commercial space, 3,500 of which would be dedicated to a new version of Durty Nellie’s, which would allow the business to continue “in a brand new format.”
It’s not a good time to be a White Sox fan…and it’s only April. The South Siders are now behind the 8-ball as the team’s biggest stars continue to suffer injuries. The latest causality is Tim Anderson, who will now be out 2-4 weeks with a sprained left knee.
Anderson will join Eloy Jimenez, Joe Kelly, and Yoan Moncada on the IL. Q101 wishes them all a speedy recovery.
Meanwhile, the Cubs came back from a 7 run deficit last night in front of a raucous home crowd last night.
In the ongoing battle for free speech, a major ruling was made in California that determined the new rules of the road. A woman on the west coast lost her battle with a traffic citation that cited her for “excessively honking”. Per the ruling of the courts, horns are not protected by free speech.
The woman filed a civil suit in 2018, claiming that she was forced to “censor herself by refraining from using her vehicle horn for expressive purposes, including but not limited to expressing support for political protests, rallies, or demonstrations.”
Even though the citation was dismissed due to the officer not showing up in court, the woman fought, and lost.
Brian & Justin are on the hunt for Ferrari Man, a former frequent inhabiter of North Ave. Beach.
If anyone has any leads, please contact Brian & Justin on Facebook immediately.
Football fanatics are going to have to pay more than ever to watch every out-of-market game this upcoming NFL season. After decades with DirecTV, the NFL is partnering with YouTube TV for their prestigious Sunday Ticket package.
For non-YouTube TV, non-early bird buyers, Sunday Ticket will cost nearly $500 for football fans.
Is this too expensive for you? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Oscar Mayer is giving freaks a chance to have an unforgettable wedding. Weddings will occur on April 15 and 16 next to the historic Little White Chapel on Las Vegas Boulevard and couples can sign up here, although the page has been so busy that it has been prone to crashing.
The company said, “Now, as more people seek stress-free ceremonies with their partners, our Hotdoggers are thrilled to reignite the joy of this special day and give them a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a wedding through a pair of meat-colored glasses.”
Monday’s first night game at The Friendly Confines featured the ballpark’s newly-installed, energy-efficient LED lights.
For as much as that headline sounds like a Mad Lib, it’s real and it’s incredibly profound. Last year while chatting with Letterman on his Netflix show, the pop phenom described her struggle.
What are you going through that people can’t see? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Three months ago, Steven Tyler was sued for sexually assaulting a minor. He’s now made his first public response about the claim, noting that plaintiff Julia Misley didn’t suffer any damages, alleging that Misley “failed to mitigate” any alleged damages herself prior to filing suit, all while not denying that he’d had sex with Misley while she was 16 and 25 at the time of the allegations, and claiming that all parties consented to the sexual relationship, and that her claims were barred “because of immunity to Defendant as caretaker/guardian.”
This baffled legal experts, who quickly remarked that “There is no such thing as immunity to a caregiver or guardian for sex abuse. I don’t have the words to describe how crazy it is.”
In Tyler’s 2011 memoir, he wrote about his relationship with Misley, famously saying, “she was sixteen, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it.”
Gross.
The list of celebrities who proudly displayed their teenage lovers is long and uncomfortable, and notably includes Jerry Seinfeld who dated a senior in high school for a brief period of time after Seinfeld was already a smash-hit, Jerry Lee Lewis, who married his 13-year-old cousin, Fergie, who courted a 16-year-old Justin Timberlake, and Wilmer Valderrama (Fez of That 70’s Show fame), who has displayed a pattern of predatory behavior towards teens like Demi Lovato and Lindsey Lohan.
A more extensive list of celebrities who dated teens can be found here.
32,400%. That’s the rise in traffic that PornHub saw in Stormy Daniels videos after the former President was arrested last week. Last Wednesday, there were 34,500 searches for Daniels. A day later, searches spiked to over 630,000 searches.
Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has admitted to paying $130,000 to kill the Daniels’ story about the former President’s affair.
Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams took to her Instagram Stories over the weekend to share a letter that she had written for a friend’s newsletter. The newsletter can be found here. Williams, in the newsletter, said,
“Good and also Evil
Kind and also Careful
Hurt and also Healing
Empathy and also Not My Problem
Bad Men and also Lovely Ones
Vulnerable and also Fuck Off
Vengeance and also Forgiveness
Stay Home and also See The World
Big Smile and also Depression
Distance and also Closer Than Ever
Intimacy and also No One Will Ever Truly Know Me
Straight and also Spectrum
Newborn and also Ancient Wisdom
Neons and also Neutrals
Hope and also Dystopia
Acceptance and also Rage
God and also Nothing
Everywhere and also Right Here
True Love and also Loneliness
Believing and also Seeing
Dreams Of The Future and also Painstakingly Present
Getting Better and also Enough
“I would tell her to learn now that life is both/and.”
What would you like to say to your teenage self? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Mark your calendars and circle June 2 as the last time you’ll be able to breeze through downtown normally during the summer months. Starting then, a long list of traffic disruptions will take place, ending on July 15, two weeks after the race.
Per NBC 5, these are the upcoming road closures:
June 2
Parking restrictions begin at 6 a.m. on June 2 along southbound Columbus Drive, between Jackson Drive and Balbo drive. Part of the sidewalk along Columbus Drive will also close at this time, but city officials noted that corners will remain accessible to allow visitors to still reach Buckingham Fountain.
June 5
At 6 a.m. on June 5, northbound parking will be restricted between Jackson and Balbo, with east side sidewalks being blocked.
June 10
Beginning June 10, Ida B. Wells between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive will close down, but eastbound lanes between Congress Circle and Michigan Avenue will remain open.
June 18
Starting on June 18, Jackson Drive between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive will close. This closure is expected to begin at 7 p.m. and continue through 6 a.m. the following morning.
June 19
On June 19, Balbo will close between Michigan Avenue and DuSable Lake Shore Drive, but the intersection along Columbus will remain open.
June 20
Starting at 6 a.m. on June 20, one lane will be blocked on northbound Columbus Drive between Roosevelt and Balbo Drive. Chicago Transit Authority busses that run along this strip will also be rerouted, officials said.
June 21
Curb lane closures begin on June 21 for northbound Columbus Drive between Balbo and Jackson Drive.
June 22
Beginning at 6 a.m. on June 22, one lane of southbound Columbus Drive will be closed between Roosevelt and Balbo. The Columbus Drive underpass, however, will remain open.
June 23
Beginning at 6 a.m., a lane closure will continue on southbound Columbus Drive, this time from Balbo to Jackson.
June 24
Lane closures will begin on June 24 along Congress Circle in both directions.
June 25 – Beginning at 12:01 a.m.
Jackson Drive will close between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive and Columbus Drive will close between Jackson Drive and Roosevelt Road.
June 26 – Beginning at 6 a.m.
Congress Plaza Drive will close and lane closures begin on eastbound Roosevelt Road between Columbus Drive and DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
June 27 – Beginning at 6 a.m.
Curb lane closure begins on southbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive between Balbo Drive and Roosevelt Road for track barrier installation.
June 28 – Beginning at 10 p.m.
A curb lane closure is slated to start on southbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive between Balbo Drive and Roosevelt Road for track barrier installation.
June 29 – Beginning at 8 p.m.
Northbound Michigan Avenue will close between Balbo Drive and Jackson Drive and a traffic lane closure will begin on southbound Michigan Avenue between Balbo and Jackson.
Then at 10 p.m., southbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive will close between Monroe Drive and McFetridge Road and Roosevelt Road will shut down between Columbus Drive and DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
June 30 – Beginning at 5 p.m.
Southbound Michigan Avenue will close between Balbo Drive and Jackson Drive.
July 1
Northbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive will close between McFetridge Drive and Randolph Street.
Other race weekend closures include full shut downs of:
July 2 – beginning at end of event
Officials said the priority will be centered on opening up DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Columbus Drive and Michigan Avenue “as soon as possible.”
Northbound Lake Shore Drive is scheduled to reopen between McFetridge and Monroe and southbound Michigan Avenue will reopen between Roosevelt and Monroe sometime before 7 a.m. on July 3, officials said.
July 3
At least one lane of traffic is expected to reopen on southbound Lake Shore Drive by midnight on July 3. Northbound Michigan Avenue and eastbound Roosevelt Road will also see one lane reopen, while all of westbound Roosevelt Road is expected to reopen.
July 4-5
Beginning at midnight and continuing through 4 p.m., officials are expected to continue to remove track wall from the event on southbound Lake Shore Drive, fully reopening the road after 4 p.m., officials said.
Then, beginning at 4 p.m. and continuing through the morning hours of July 5, the remaining walls on northbound Michigan Avenue will be removed, “allowing for three lanes” to reopen.
July 5-6
Between July 5 and July 6 Congress Circle is expected to fully reopen.
July 6-7
Columbus Drive between Roosevelt and Balbo is expected to remain closed in both directions. Balbo Drive will also remain closed to traffic between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive.
July 8-9
Jackson Drive will remain closed between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive in both directions. Closures will also continue on Columbus Drive.
July 10
July 11
Northbound Columbus Drive reopens fully between Balbo Drive and Jackson Boulevard.
July 12-13
Balbo Drive reopens between Columbus Drive and DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
July 14-15
All streets, parking and sidewalks are reopened.
Good luck, Chicago, and godspeed.
Marching bands of all levels are invited to compete for over $150,000 in prizes by crafting “their most exciting, unique, and impressive performances of some of the band’s most beloved songs.”
Comment sections on the Internet are often a spawning point for Karens, but we stumbled upon one comment section that was so glorious and heartwarming that we felt the need to share it.
We thank Alley for his service, both at Walmart and at Afghanistan…apparently.
Our friends at TOPS Club Inc. have done the work that we were too afraid to do. After a glorious weekend with warm weather, family, and candy, we now have to face the reality that some of these calories need to be burned. This is exactly how long it will take for those calories to go away.
5 marshmallow chicks (140 calories):
1 cream-filled chocolate egg (150 calories):
15 jelly beans (160 calories):
1 peanut-butter egg (180 calories):
1 1 1/2-oz. solid chocolate bunny (240 calories):
Now is the time to get your beach body ready, Chicagoland.
