Jonathan Pirc, Co-Founder
I’m currently working on the launch of Morgan Street Document System’s newest product, Orggit, and an Analyst at Sandbox Industries, LLC. I’ve been living in Chicago for 3 years now: first in Logan Square, and now currently in Wrigleyville (about a block from the Mecca known as Wrigley Field). I’m a diehard Cubs and Bears fan, but hate the White Sox with a passion.
Favorite Sport: Baseball
Favorite Current Chicago Athlete: Ryan Theriot
Favorite All-Time Chicago Athlete: Walter Payton
Favorite Food: Buffalo Chicken
Favorite Drink: Bud Light
Favorite Chicago Quote: “Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.”—Alvin Dark
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Kyle Warczak, Co-Founder
During my time at Columbia College I had the opportunity to host a sports talk show on 88.1 FM, Intern for WSCR and call a select number of UIC Flames Basketball games. Plain and simple, I love all things Chicago. I currently work for MediaBank, a Media Management Firm as a Territory Manager. I have lived in the Gold Coast, Lakeview, Old Irving, Logan Square and currently Wrigleyville.
Favorite Sport: Football
Favorite Current Chicago Athlete: Matt Forte
Favorite All-time Chicago Athlete: Michael Jordan
Favorite Food: Chicago style hotdog
Favorite Drink: Irish Car Bomb
Favorite Chicago Quote: It’s a 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes; it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!-The Blues Brothers
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Jean Jean-Pierre, V.P. & Creative Director
Born and raised on the northside of Chicago. Rogers Park is the neighborhood I call home and I work in Accounting around the north shore suburbs. I am a graduate of Northern Illinois University, majoring in Business, and planning my return to graduate shcool soon. I gave up on the Bulls, so I am a Lakers fan, but I love the Chicago Cubs, Bears, and Blackhawks.
Favorite Sport: Football
Favorite Current Chicago Athlete: Carlos Zambrano
Favorite All-time Chicago Athlete: Michael Jordan
Favorite Food: Thin-Crust Pepperoni Pizza
Favorite Drink: Isopure Cookie N’ Cream Protein shake
Favorite Chicago Quote: “Every interview I’m representing you making you proud, Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud, Jumpin in da crowd spark your lighters wave em around, so if you don’t know by now I’m talkin bout Chi-town!” -Kanye West
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Nick Robinson, Editor-in-Chief
I currently have one year left to finish up my undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University, where I will major in English and double minor in Japanese and Political Science. Unfortunately, I have never lived in the city limits but I was born in raised in Oak Park, which I don’t care what you say is as close to living in the city as you get. I’ve played baseball all my life so my true love lies with the Cubs but as any true Chicago fan, I love the Bears and the Bulls as well.
Favorite Sport: Baseball
Favorite Current Chicago Athlete: Garret Wolfe
Favorite All-Time Chicago Athlete: Kerry Wood (MJ is just too obvious of a choice)
Favorite Food: Pasta
Favorite Drink: Crown and Coke
Favorite Chicago Quote:Let’s go to sleep in Paris
Wake up in Tokyo
Have a dream in New Orleans
Fall in love in Chicago – Lupe Fiasco
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I will be at the game tonight and I’m getting fired up to see Kyle Orton pick apart the KC secondary. I’ll take pix if I remember.
you definitely want to spell check first.
Damn good call on The Weatherman. I distinctly remember frequent shots of the lake during gloomy winter days with broken ice chunks floating between the beaches and break walls. That just struck me.
Another thing, I may be showing my age, but how can you forget about About Last Night? It had Jim Belushi before he sold out…Rob Lowe before he started filming himself in compromising positions…Demi Moore before she started working out. Plus it featured 16″ softball. I think it’s based on a play by a Chicagoan. Please amend this list when you get a chance and get rid of The Break Up. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Glad I just found your wordpress blog through Google.
Found just what I was looking for, thanks =)
Btw, wat plugins are you using??
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
you guys are the coolest since sliced bread. and those pictures HOT!
what bout derrek rose news
way to choak on the spelling
I actually can honestly say that I was present for filming of ‘Rookie of the Year’ as a child. And while it makes for a great story, all I remember from it was that it was frigidly cold. Like most of my Chicago memories. P.S. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off should be 2nd on your list, with all due respect to Batman.
HOW COULD YA’LL FORGET THE MATRIX??!??!?
>>Subtle nods were included to Chicago, Illinois, the home city of the directors, through a subtly placed picture of the Chicago skyline, city maps, the destination of the subway train during the subway station fight between Neo and Agent Smith saying “Loop” and place names like the Adams Street Bridge, Wells and Lake, Franklin and Erie, State and Balbo, and Wabash and Lake.
YA’LL SO CRAZY FOR LEAVIN IT OUT!!! AINT HALF THESE MOVIES AS GOOD AS THE MATRIX! DAT NIGGA NEO IS THA ONE! BULLET TIME? REVOLUTIONARY!!! YALL NIGGAS IS WACK!
Gentlemen, let me just say that I’m a little hurt I wasn’t informed about this wonderful piece of Chicago lore! Nonetheless I found it and daddy likey! I will say that a list of the top 10 movies filmed in the Chicagoland area needs to include Breakfast Club. Just as Bender so eloquently put it “I’m workin’ on my scholarship!” Keep up the good work gents!
I saw the same on the red line two days ago
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Hysterical and too true. I am the commuter. However, I tend to have fun with #11, #12 and #13. #11’s are the one’s that get on the el, and after the announcement of “no smoking, eating or gambling allowed on CTA vehicles”, will pull out his velveteen board and 3 pop caps with a little pea, and a big wad of money. Usually accompanied by a “patsy”, these partners in crime wouldn’t call it “gambling” per se-but they will take your money after they’ve hustled you to think you have a chance of winning any.
#12 is typically seen late night, and all weekend nights. They are the drunks. They come in bunches-or single packs. The bunches are either collegiate loud guys headed to Wrigleyville, or 4 girls dressed up like they are either going to prom, or to hang out on North Ave. and sell their wares-and act really unfriendly when the “single pack” drunk-usually a guy with a 40oz in hand, tries to strike up a conversation.
#13 is the up there in the “most highly annoying” catagory-the CUB/SOX fan. Usually a suburbanite, too intimidated to brave city traffic and/or parking-not for cost, but because they don’t know how to pararell park. Sox fans seem a bit less conspicuous than the Cub fan-you will know the cub fan by the red, white and blue decorm and the fact that they tend to stand in the aisles (even when the seats are available) and are typically found as a older man and woman with 2.5 kids along for the ride.
These are some of my favorites….
Lisa #13. “The Baseball fan” is soo true during the summer months in Lakeview or on the train to SOX-35th.
man this list is alllll messed up. i hope you meant 5 being the hottest and 1 being least hottest. shhhiiittttttt
where them titties at
woof
Chicago is privileged to have 2 great zoos — the suburban Brookfield Zoo, which is one of the best in the Midwest; and the very nice downtown Lincoln Park Zoo, one of the nation’s best free zoos. There is also Shedd Aquarium, one of the 3 best aquariums in the nation.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America’s Best Zoos
“but many involved robbers watching oblivious iPhone and iPod users neglect there surrounds while using their devices allowing for the robbers to simply snatch the items quickly and run off the train, during a stop”
unsafe? i think not. people just need to stop being IDIOTS and sitting their messing with their phones. ITS CALLED STREET SMARTS. and this has been going on for how many months??? its hard to feel bad for the “victims” of these crimes when they’re caused by pure stupidity.
Frater Kzilla,
Whats up mayn, how goes it?? After thoroughly reading your fine article, I have to say I completely agree with every word, from ‘I clearly have a problem’ to ‘Jared Allen’s mullet exponentially adds to his badassness.’ Clearly MMA athletes have superior training methods, and participate in a sport that most definitely requires more ‘Skill, not just God-given physique or speed.’ Just ask Johnnie Morton’s bitchass. Obviously the hits he took week after week, season after season, while Scott Mitchell perpetually left him high and dry during inside post routes, did NOT prepare him for the barbaric strikes he took during the 2minutes (generous) he spent in the octagon. Also during that conversation with the Detroit Lions legend, ask him why he didn’t submit to a urine test after his lone MMA fight. Evidently steroids do not guarantee a victory in MMA, whereas in most other sports, they almost surely add to an increase in statistics. That alone has gotta say something about which sport contains tougher/more talented athletes. Just a lil food for thought. But with that said, hows life bro?? You still out in Rochelle? Gus gettin big?? Hope alls well buddy. And to all the other gentlemen associated with this site, keep up the good work, I’m a fan. Take care guys.
Peace in the Middle East!
-Feltes
Thanks for the comments Feltes, thought you fell off the planet. Yeah I also was watching some stuff tonight that made me think even more about this. Most of the time guys aren’t fighting in the UFC, they fight is some low level promotion getting their head beat in for a meager wage. Plus the guys at the elite level don’t make near the dough that other elite fighters make while the Fratitias (sp) and White get fat.
If I was an insurance company in this backwards country, would I want to cover someone who gets the crap beat out of them for a living? Hell no. That seems to be the case a lot, no insurance and you get punched in the face for a living. I am kind of paraphrasing Forrest Griffin but its true.
Gus is having his first MMA fight next week vs a 3 year old. I wouldn’t want to be that 3 year old, Gus is a killing machine.
Klotz