Reading this made me feel very nostalgic about Chicago. It's still "my town" of sorts, but so is Minneapolis. And I never got to the Barbarossa, but it sure got mentioned a lot back when I was listening to the Midnight Special on WFMT regularly.

I'll be in Chicago in a couple of weeks for family stuff, and my brothers and I are planning on watching a Cubs game at Lou Malnati's. (The original plan was to go in person, but sticker shock intervened. I knew how much the prices had gone up, but apparently my brother David didn't.)