Chicago Way w/John Kass: Eeyore in the city
The Chicago Way
WGN Plus
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you love the city where you're born here? Have you seen it bloom like roses and then die and get cut back and then bloom again? |
| 0:09.2 | Everywhere in the city of Chicago, plants are in bloom. It's still green. People are there. Can you forgive the city for what it's done to you and yours? Is it a place to avoid all full of anger and |
| 0:25.1 | violence? Or when you're out in the city, are you just looking around, looking behind you, |
| 0:31.7 | waiting to get cracked with a club in your head? Or do you look forward to the lakefront and the people walking, |
| 0:40.9 | walking your dog, beautiful along Lakeshore Drive and east of there along the lakefront |
| 0:48.3 | south, the festivals, Taysa, Chicago, Lallupilza, all the great things in this city. |
| 0:57.0 | The Grand Park concert? |
| 0:58.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:59.6 | We're going to talk about it. |
| 1:01.1 | Jeff Carlin is here. |
| 1:02.9 | Jeff and I are going to talk about our love for the city and our hate for the city. |
| 1:08.6 | Because it's a two-way street. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not like Rich Daly, a one-way street. No, it's love and this hate for the city. Because it's a two-way street. It's not like Rich Daly, a one-way street. |
| 1:12.5 | No, it's love and this hate thing. |
| 1:14.8 | It's what happened. |
| 1:16.4 | It's what is happening. |
| 1:18.2 | Jeff is here. |
| 1:19.2 | Executive producer, WGN Radio, friend of Katz, husband to the lovely Christine. |
| 1:26.4 | And me, I'm John Cass, 40 years a columnist in this city. |
| 1:31.3 | Now running my own website, Johncastnews.com, where you always get a good cup of common sense. |
| 1:41.0 | So, do you love the city? |
| 1:43.6 | We're going to talk about it on the Chicago Way podcast on WGN Plus. |
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