What is the Chicago voice? What is the Chicago site, the Chicago voice on paper, the Chicago voice in print, the Chicago voice in your ears?

Is it really all about

John put his hand in the fish tank as some of the so-called experts of diction? Are trying to suggest on YouTube?

Or is it something else, a sensibility? There's another voice I want you to know about, and many of you do already.

Peter B. Bella, a friend of ours, a friend of this show. You've heard him here on the Chicago way podcast. He's written for John Cass News.

Long time police officer 30 years in the business, a photographer, a photographer of exquisite Chicago scenes, Peter B. Bella, fine art photography, and he's got a show at the dime gallery, 1500 Northwestern, so you can go get your chocolate soda from Margie's and head on over to the show.

Tony Fitzpatrick, the Chicago artist is helping organize that. And he's our guest, as always, Jeff Carlin is here, as always. Executive producer WGN Radio, Master of Cats and Husband of Christine and Christine, we all love you, and we're thinking about you every day.

And I'm John Cass, husband, father, editor of John Cass News, writing at least one column a week now. Let's see if it can continue rehabbing after, you know, a stroke in quadruple bypass is not as easy as I thought it would be, but we could buy with a little help from our friends.

And so where are you? You're on the Chicago way on WGN plus.

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this tammany whole style attitude to power. And it is, it's the Chicago way. Absolutely.

The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon. It's the Chicago way. The Chicago way. That's the focus in a tower by the river. They're lived a man.

There was a man who took a stand with pen and paper in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.

No escape from his ink class. Oh, in a tower by the river.

Castle.

Okay, I've got one thing to say to you, everyone out there.

John put his hand in the fish tank. This is how you tell if you have a Chicago accent or not. I guess people fake it and try to have like a fake overly done Chicago accent.

But the guy who's our guest, Peter V bella, the former cooking cop, photographer, par excellence and subject of a Rick Hogan profile in the Chicago Tribune and that that alone got me to open up the Tribune for once is fantastic.

Peter B bella, congratulations. Welcome back to the Chicago way. Congratulations on your great art show, your great photography show.

Where were we having it at the where is it again? The dime gallery, 1513 Northwestern, the dime gallery. And if you go there with Mr. Fifth Patrick, famous socks fan and artist who's put this show together.

What will people see?

There's about 18 photographs of various places and people in Chicago, all black and white, the name of the exhibition Chicago and black and white and it's a combination of photographs going back 14 years and a few of them through the

pandemic when I was going off my daily walk.

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