Events

James Fallows wrote speeches for President Carter and has been a political journalist since leaving politics. He has five tips for watching Tuesday's speech, which I will be doing so you don't have to:

In the past two weeks, two Brews & Choos Project breweries have closed or announced their closings: Short Fuse closed on Monday, and Illuminated Brew Works announced yesterday that they would close this coming June. Another brewery my Brews & Choos buddy and I visited (but was too far from public transit to make the list), Alarmist, closed January 31st.

I have a lot of prep to do for an event tomorrow, but I still found a few minutes to read these:

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does :

Chicago has a batshit-crazy seller's market right now: