Time Out Chicago: Why do you think no one bothers you?

CM Punk: I have tattoos and I look like everyone else when I’m not in my underwear [trunks]. Actually, I’m not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don’t look like CM Punk when I’m not in my gear. And hipsters either don’t watch TV or they’re too cool to admit they watch wrestling. So no one even talks to me.

A 10-year-old girl was fatally shot last night while walking with her 7-year-old blind sister on the South Side.

On Sunday, a 13-year-old girl was at her aunt’s house in Humboldt Park when she was “caught in gang crossfire” and killed.

Today when I woke up, I went online to see if any arrests were made, and realized I couldn’t even find information about the little girl killed in Humboldt Park. The 10-year-old killed yesterday became the top story.

Maybe if we get the Olympics, we can offer helmets and bulletproof vests to visitors. And Jody Weis can cross his arms, looking like a real badass, in front of whatever giant stadium we construct instead of giving more money to dilapidated schools or hiring more police to control gangs. Yeah, that will fix everything.

Incredibly sad.

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“An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.”

Way to go Chicago!

Glad to see your 100% ban on guns is working out for ya.

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Chicago is cold.

It’s a unique combination of depressing and impressive that the river has had icebergs in it for almost a month now.

John Hodgman Debates the Existence of Chicago →

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He argues that the Windy City doesn’t exist, in spite of arguments made by residents and visitors: “They really believe that the city stands there, in all its legendary green-rivered, fire-prone glory, and that once every 100 years, when it rises out of Lake Michigan, you can visit it.” Among Hodgman’s other dubious assertions: The 27 million people who visited the Columbian Exposition in 1892 were never seen again, and the Chicago River reversed direction in 1900, when it turned blood-red and was accompanied by a hailstorm of snakes.