Video Games [Heart] Chicago
A few months ago we wrote about how driving through downtown Chicago is an option in the new video game Need For Speed 2 Shift Unleashed. After that was published,...
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Week Links: March 2, 2012
In order to declutter this publication a little bit, the “Briefly” segments that were being published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons will now be...
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Mythbusters [heart] Chicago
One of our readers was catching up on old episodes of Mythbusters recently when he spotted something interesting — the Chicago skyline. It turns out that in one...
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Slice of Life: Eyes in the Skies
Recently yet another Illinois politician was sentenced to prison time. It gave me a chance to break out my camera’s longer lens and take some pictures of the TV...
Read MoreWilding in the Gold Coast
I received a few e-mail messages this week from people asking why, in light of all the minutae and unimportant things I cover in this blog, I haven’t said word one...
Read MoreMediawatch: WMAQ-TV
A WMAQ-TV live truck parked next to Water Tower Place (845 North Michigan...
Read MoreMediawatch: WMVP
A van for WMVP radio, parked appropriately enough, in front of Ditka’s Restaurant (100 East Chestnut...
Read MoreMediawatch: WGN-TV
A WGN-TV news van is parked in front of the Old Chicago Water Tower (806 North Michigan...
Read MoreHollywood Blows Up Chicago. Again.
It seems like every month, Hollywood churns out yet another end-of-the-world movie. Sometimes armageddon doesn’t start in New York or Los Angeles. It happens...
Read MoreMediawatch: WSNS-TV
I’ve never understood my interest in radio and television live trucks, so I won’t try to explain why this is here. It’s a WSNS-TV live truck parked...
Read MoreShiny Shiny Security
The back lobby of the NBC Tower (200 East Illinois Street) is very clean, very shiny, and not used much these days. This is the security checkpoint where countless...
Read MoreLook In The Eye While You Can
There’s been a lot of talk in recent months about WBBM-TV possibly ditching its streetfront studio at Block37 (1 West Randolph Street) and moving the whole shebang...
Read MoreSlice of Life: Frozen Fox
A news crew from Fox Business Channel does live shots for a story about shopping on Michigan Avenue in this horribly white balanced...
Read MoreSlice of Life: Filming A Lincoln in Lincoln Park
The Lincoln getting all the attention in Lincoln Park this day isn’t the locally-famous Standing Lincoln monument. It’s a 1968 Lincoln Continental...
Read MoreChicago’s Seven Storefront Studios
The banners promise that Loyola University’s new $400,000 streetfront television studio in The Clare at Water Tower (55 East Pearson Street) will open in autumn...
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