Last night I was at Carnivale* waiting for Erin to meet me so we could go in to an International Wine Institute party that was being held there. It was just past dark, about 5:45pm, and I was waiting across the street from the restaurant. I’d wanted to take a couple photos of the building [...]

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I’ve started getting the Chicago Tribune on Sundays and have secretly become an obsessive coupon clipper. There’s something oddly satisfying about cutting them out and thinking “FREE MONEY!” even if you wind up never using them. Anwyay, one coupon that I did use this morning was for free coffee or cappuccino at White Hen. So, [...]

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Recently I started noticing that there are several restaurants and businesses that I pass by multiple locations of on the walking part of my commute to and from work. It’s interesting to see how different each location looks depending on where it’s located, yet how each is branded similarly so the consumer recognizes what it [...]

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