On this day
April 29
18 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Is the City Gallery at Water Tower still showing exhibitions?
Giving an urban icon a second life, then watching that life quietly fade. One of the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago…
2015 11 years ago
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- Start to NFL Draft in Chicago flops
Crowd control gates lined the streets of Michigan Avenue outside Tribune Tower. The kickoff to the NFL Draft in Chicago was supposed to be huge. Such…
2014 12 years ago
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- 14 Chicago fog photos from Chicagoist
A fog crawls over Chicago, photographers slide their cameras out to capture the gray beast. Chicagoist selected 14 photos of today’s fog in Chicago. The second…
- Painting restoration of Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day”
The Art Institute of Chicago recently “restored” Gustave Caillebotte’s painting, “Paris Street; Rainy Day” (1877) Wow, the umbrellas are really blue now. They almost feel like…
2013 13 years ago
2011 15 years ago
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- Transformers totally destroy Chicago
STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THE NEW TRANSFORMERS TRAILER. At first when I was watching it, I thought, “oh this is neat” but then…
2009 17 years ago
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- Cuz sometimes somethings just gotta be in all caps
When I intially saw these super cool gloves on etsy a few months ago, they were sold out. The wondeful etsy seller Xmittens made s’more and…
2008 18 years ago
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- Highest scoring word on Scrabble: SINGHIOZZEREBBE, 2118 points
Facebook’s Scrabble application, Scrabulous keeps track of the highest-scoring words ever. The number one word: SINGHIOZZEREBBE, scoring 2118 points. It runs the ENTIRE length of the…
2006 20 years ago
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- New Toy Friday: Animal Crackers
Every Friday at work we have New Toy Friday. Yesterday’s toy was the Animal Cracker (thanks to Lisa Radke). How many Animal Crackers can you eat…
- 2006 Chicago Movies in the Park
Chicago Outdoor Film Festival-Grant Park Butler Field, Grant Park 100 S. Lake Shore Drive July 18, 2006, 8:55pm “Rebel Without a Cause” July 25, 2006, 8:49pm…
2004 22 years ago
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- Join my 2004 “Beat the Streak” league
I just created a “Beat the Streak” league on Major League Baseball’s website. It’s really easy to do. How to Play: 1) Your mission is to…
- Visual Plug-ins for iTunes?
Are there any websites that have a bunch of visual plug-ins for iTunes? I could only find two websites that have a couple visualizers. http://www.arkaos.net/site/en/index.html http://www.trinfinitysoftware.com/…
2003 23 years ago
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- falling down
Yesterday as I was going home from working out, I was thinking to myself, “what if I fall down the stairs with my water bottle? Hmmm,…
- retired baseball players
Erik brought up a good point of that there is no ongoing list of retired baseball players. I posted a comment on the
- croquet craze
Where is croquet popular? Check out this map of where official croquet clubs are located.
- Googly eyeballs
Placing eyeballs in public, transforming normal objects into faces. This is the first of what may be more to come.
- Peace nickels (finding coins)
Ever lay a coin on the ground and see watch people’s reactions? Why not put a sticker on the back with a word to peak the…
2002 24 years ago
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- the win stat for pitchers is a farce
juan cruz of the cubs is 0-5 with a 2.33 era. Big whoop i really dislike the win loss record for a pitcher. It’s more moronic…