Buy a Swag Pack and help a Wicker Park Bookstore!

  ANNNNND, it’s gone. Thanks and congratulations to the person who grabbed the perk!  Volumes Bookstore in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood (where Mallory lives!) is running an IndieGoGo campaign in order to stay afloat. With the help of Magical Assistant Krista, I’ve donated this fantastic swag pack! There’s only one, and the perk is currently $150![…]

Chicago Love

A couple of interesting Chicago tidbits this week: The Explosive Life and Death of the World’s First Ferris Wheel: Gawker explores the history of the world’s first ferris wheel, built in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition. The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln: Smithsonian Magazine explores a previous, unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln,[…]

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