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In Chicago, we take our nostalgia straight

04.07.2009 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Roger Ebert has a happy reminiscence of his happy days
in Chicago newspapering, and he includes this video of Mike Royko at
the Billy Goat tavern in 1982, talking about softball. See the young
woman staring at this scene? She looks like I feel every time I’m
around a Chicago old timer who can tell a yarn.

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