Illinois And Indiana Breweries Have Solid Showing At Great American Beer Festival Illinois and Indiana breweries made a strong showing at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this weekend, with Illinois taking 10 medals and Indiana taking seven.
pitchinvasion with Tom Dunmore’s wrap-up of the festivities for the Chicago Fire Soccer Club’s 15th Anniversary Celebration. I served as a co-Chair of the organizing committee, and it was a wonderful experience tying the event to Chicago’s civic identity by holding it at the Chicago History Museum. Read More
Chicago Fire 15th Anniversary Reunion Match set on Flickr: my photos from last Sunday’s anniversary reunion match.
In short, Reader responsibilities that had been [Mary Jo] Madden’s alone would now be shared by four Sun-Times Media executives. Administratively, the paper was being broken up and parceled out. Hopes held by the Reader staff when they moved in with Sun-Times Media, that they’d be allowed to continue to operate as a discrete entity, now seemed more distant. Yet the Reader turns a small profit and it would be hard to name another Sun-Times Media property that can make the same claim.
Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov, a legend of the international game and a Fire player 2000-2002, returned to Chicago just for the celebration, as did Fire originals Ante Razov, Peter Nowak, Chris Armas, Zach Thornton and Diego Gutierrez. Hometown hero Brian McBride of Arlington Heights posed for countless photos. Much of the expansion Montreal Impact coaching staff was there, led by former Fire midfielder Jesse Marsch, now the Impact coach, and assistants Mike Sorber, Denis Hamlett and Impact scout Lubos Kubik, each with a Fire connection. Even former Fire midfielder Justin Mapp, a current Impact player, was there, mingling with fans along with most of the current Fire players, while a video of the Fire’s 1998 MLS Cup win played on the big screen.