When you think of Chicago rivalries, it should be baseball, White Sox, and Cubs that jump to mind. But there is another, perhaps slightly more delicious but just as vicious, rivalry that is broiling all across Chicago-Pizza. I came to Chicago knowing that they had their own their own style of pizza, but I was fuzzy on the details. After…
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles…Blah, Blah, Blah
Not a very reverent way to recant the words of the influential Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu, but the famous words roll so tritely off the tongue that the meaning is lost somewhere along the way. Let’s take a minute to think past the cliché. How is it that a journey of any great length can begin with something so rudimentary? …
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Jesus in Cowboy Boots
There are 40,000 gravestones in the Evergreen Cemetery of Paris, TX, each one telling a bit of the story of the life and death of the owner. There is no story more intriguing, though, than that of Willet Babcock. Mr. Babcock was a bit of a Renaissance man in the small town of Paris. Remembered as a prominent businessman who…
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Planning a Family Vacation~ Step by Step
I really thought I had done everything right. I handed out 22 plastic rulers. We all had our math books open. I had looked over the lesson. I had even written Measuring in my best first grade teacher handwriting on the blackboard. I began the lesson with a simple request for the students to measure their pencil, but instead of…
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Quest for Chicago’s Best: Superdawg
It seems that every great city has an equally great quintessential food that goes right along with it. Philadelphia has the cheesesteak . Boston has baked beans. Chicago has pizza. And hot dogs. And cheesecake. After several visits to Chicago, we decided to go on a quest to hunt down the best of this culinary trio. Our goal was to…
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