With the primaries quickly approaching and regardless of outcome, The Brown Line column at TheAverageChicagoan.com fully endorses Andy Martin as the republican candidate for Senator Henry Burris’ U.S. Senate seat representing Illinois. We, including column founder Melvin T., believe in order to achieve the change our great city and state needs—a politician fighting for causes [...]
10 Random Rants (Vol. 7)
1. Happy New Year everyone! Let me kick off the first random rant of the year by saying I would like to see less of these things in 2010: Taylor Swift winning every award and sympathizing over her VMA incident. Jimmy Fallon (damn he sucks!) Anything Twilight. MTV’s The Hills (dunzo!). Healthcare reform back & [...]
A Crime of Opportunity
As a user of the CTA, have you ever stopped and thought about how much you spend on transit weekly or even monthly? In these times, I’m sure you have. I graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2007; during my time there I was provided a CTA U-Pass, a master key to all that is [...]
Chicago’s Ultimate View
Hello my fellow Average Chicagoans, I hope you are keeping up on the great perspective we have provided so far on the Entertainment Scene in Chicago. On that note, I wanted to give a critique of the Will… sorry, Sears Tower Sky Deck. Waiting in line you got the sense that it may take half [...]
Live from the 25th Annual Cubs Convention: Maddux Introduced As Assistant “To” The General Manager
CHICAGO- Tom Ricketts and family kicked off the 25th Annual Chicago Cubs Convention by throwing out the first pitches during the opening ceremonies. The fans packed into the Grand Ballroom cheered when the Ricketts family were first introduced. The ball that Tom Ricketts threw actually almost hit Ronnie Woo-Woo in the head. Ronnie later commented [...]
Chicago Public Transit becoming UNSAFE for Mobile Electronics Users
Over the past few weeks, an increasing amount of robberies have been committed on a few CTA trains and buses. The thefts were mainly of the popular Apple iPhone, iPod, and other mobile electronics; such as smartphones and mobile gaming devices. A few of the robberies were armed but many involved robbers watching oblivious iPhone [...]
Three Things I’ve learned from this winter season so far
Now that it has been finally stopped snowing and all of Chicago’s various advisories and warnings have been cancelled, I thought it be nice to recap a couple of lessons learned from, not just the past couple of days, but the winter so far. 1. If I see a single snowflake I instantly double my [...]
Chicago Fun Facts
All too often we as Chicagoans forget the great history of our fine city. We look at New York and Los Angeles and somehow feel inferior due to our lack of contribution to American history. Some of these facts should help you regain your national pride and help you remember that Chicago truly is America’s [...]
Chicago’s Biggest FAILS of 2009
With January in Chicago in full force, it’s time for us Chicagoans to look back at the year that’s gone by. Lots of shit has happened in the Windy City this year—and the most of it, not so good. Like some great philosopher once said, ‘Learn from the past, lest it repeat itself.’ So what [...]