Erin, Chuck, Dallas :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

Chicagoist Staff – Past & Present. See who everyone is here.

Erin & Mike, Rachelle & Sam, Chuck & Erin :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

Suffrajett :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

Rachelle, Hanna, Simi from Suffrajett, Joanna, Alicia :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

Erin, Mike, Rachelle :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

Rachelle, Erin, Margaret :: Pontiac Cafe, Wicker Park, Chicago

I was really nervous this week before the Chicagoist party. For a while a few major things started to feel like they were falling apart, but in the end it all turned out great and went off without a hitch Thursday night. No matter how many sleepless nights the planning causes, these events we’ve been having have turned out great. Lots of fun. I love giving back to the readers this way and every time I see all of our staff coming together to make the event happen and then there to enjoy it, I get a little sappy. We really have come a lonnnng way since early 2004 when I’d just moved here and Jake was asking me “Hey, would you be interested in starting a site like Gothamist but for Chicago?” I can remember he wanted to start right away and I asked to wait til I came back from Hawaii, which that trip was another life-changing event that took things in a direction I never anticipated. So much has happened, so much good, over the last 2 years, but things I never imagined when I was sitting in a UHaul driving across the country with Jess. Thanks to everyone who has been there for me these past few. I know I don’t say it as much as I should!

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