They didn't play them The Monkees?

Joe Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
U2
Farm Aid
C.J. Chenier

I grew up two blocks from Michael Spilotro's house.

The Roscoe Village cougar was the craziest one in my lifetime I think.

"Loud Prayer" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at the Last Waltz 11/25/76

"We talked about Cairo, and wondered whether we would know it when we got to it. . . Jim said if the two big rivers joined together there, that would show." - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chiiiiiiiiicagoland!

". . . he was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the far northwest side. My mother and I took a two-hour ride by El and bus and visited him there. [It] was surrounded by a high, spiked iron fence painted a fir-tree green . . ." - Stuart Dybek, "Je Reviens"

"As a boy he butchered and sold pigeons that he hunted on the roofs of churches, one of his several enterprises that kept the family going after his drunken, immigrant father was committed to Dunning, the state mental hospital." - Stuart Dybek, "Vigil"

One of my college roommates once ran on a relay team whose names were Short, Cute, Brown & Devine.

Rut in full effect.

I have a few of those blocks in my garage.