Hi fellow Sloopers!   Long time no talk - we've taken a bit of a hiatus to think through some aspects of this site and what the future c...

From Chicago Tribune : Twice a year, during the spring and fall equinoxes, the rising and setting sun lines up with Chicago’s east-west stre...

 The video says a lot: It's easy to get swept up in the excitement of shiny new things, but the reality is this seems extremely u...

It's 2023 - happy new year!   The first image on Google Images (prompt: south loop chicago neighborhood in 2023) With each passing year,...

 

(It's been awhile - sorry about that folks!) We're coming to you with some interesting developments on the Sloop marijuana front.  W...

We took a break from Sloping, but apparently we just needed a $5.9M urban house to make us draft up a post ( 747 S. Dearborn listing ).  Thi...

 If you're looking for a place for Yom Kippur:

Same spot, but new restaurant group.  Judging by the pictures in this post - looks like we're going to have to check it out (via InsideH...

If anyone is looking to celebrate the high holidays in the Sloop (via Chabad of South Loop ): 

We live by Roosevelt and State, and this weekend was a brutal one for our young family.   While we're all for celebrations, the rowdy sc...

Hoping this guy is caught (from CBS2 ): Chicago Police Saturday were questioning a person of interest in a series of groping incidents in t...

A reader sent us this great video from CBS Sunday Morning profiling Moody Tongue Brewery.  We didn't see this and if you haven't, i...

Apparently when we posted last week about Lolla contract extensions, it wasn't quite a done deal yet.  However, it still felt like it wa...