It’s snowing sideways, chicago public schools have a snow day tomorrow, and I just learned that the weather lady on tv is called Amy Freeze.

I’ve heard that rahm has way outspent the other mayoral candidates but I’ve yet to see any campaign signs (for any candidate. That I can remember.) That is until today, when I saw this on a boarded up storefront on milwaukee between aldi and the bucktown library.

Fresh snow on the car was a perfect slate for…you decide. Vandals or a message from my favorite celebrity?

Heat lamps at the armitage el station, street in morning and some footprints in the snow.

Miles and Will were promoted to blue belts in karate.on Saturday! Way to go! Other test news this week is Liam has final exams. Good luck, Liam!

Miles slipped on the playground at school minutes before I got there to pick him up yesterday. He cut his chin and was in the office getting it wrapped up by the extremely proficient school secretary when I got there. “He needs stitches,” she said, and since she’s always right…

This whole town has the winter shoe blues. At miles’s karate today I noticed these small silver pans on the floor by the shoe racks (no shoes allowed in the dojo). They are to catch all the little streams of water that flow from the shelves as snow melts off…

Readers may be familiar with a holiday tradition around here: the ultimate brunch gathering of a group of Jayhawks and their loved ones. While on a Chicago holiday visit from Denver, Eric, Amber, Will and Ben made their way from Palatine to Humboldt Park for the brunch, and Chicago residents…