Roll Call “Chicago” (Part 1)

chockfullofthat · December 17, 2020, 2:40am

Oh no

PTM · December 17, 2020, 2:40am

See ya in 15.

chockfullofthat · December 17, 2020, 2:57am

Ya that scene where the chick spreads her legs at the petite lake sandbar is what I would call a normal chain person. This guy is like a chain hipster. Which I just now found out existed.

VenkmansLament · December 17, 2020, 3:57am

My favorite(?) thing about McHenry is how it has a way of making sure you know you’re in McHenry.

notorious83 · December 17, 2020, 1:10pm

Staying on the theme of license plate covers… this guy was really putting it out there

PTM · December 17, 2020, 1:17pm

Was not expecting a Subaru.

TCRBrad · December 17, 2020, 1:54pm

I had green 2004 Honda civic on my bingo card for that one

PinkPantser · December 17, 2020, 4:00pm

From my grint summary of 2020

get you a man that can do both. The only way this could get better would be if it went jackson park and then, like, shoreacres

ChiFFI · December 17, 2020, 9:19pm

Huh, expected Arcadia Bluffs or Crystal Downs.

kevjones · December 17, 2020, 9:44pm

This is every other car in downstate IL.

VenkmansLament · December 17, 2020, 10:39pm

I own a Subaru. This checks out

VenkmansLament · December 17, 2020, 10:41pm

I went to Illinois State (Buck Fradley). This might be why I felt more at home in Pontiac, Lexington, El Paso and Fairbury than I did in BloNo.

EConroy419 · December 17, 2020, 11:03pm

…what the hell was there even to do in towns like Fairbury and Lexington? I know a bunch of people would take the bus up to Kappa for obvious reasons but never heard of anyone going anywhere else.

VenkmansLament · December 18, 2020, 2:04am

I worked for a radio group for 2 years and we’d have events at bars and stuff out there. Kemp’s Upper Tap in Lexington is legitimately one of my favorite bars in the world. (aside: RIP Maggie Miley’s)

And Fairbury has the most magical place on earth:
The Fairbury American Legion Speedway

It’s a majestic oval carved into the loam, serving as a shrine to hundreds of disciples to the gods of Speed, Horsepower and Octane. Where only the bravest thrash around in steel chariots at breakneck speed, spewing mire and exhaust on the devout.

Also, they let me drive our Hummer H3 work truck as the pace car for a lap and then brought me and my buddy free beers and food all night where we got so drunk we had to sleep at the radio station when the engineer dropped us off.

So yeah, pretty cool places out there.

EConroy419 · December 18, 2020, 2:48am

Fuckin’ rest in peace, Maggie Miley’s.

kevjones · December 18, 2020, 2:59am

I may be a Bradley guy, but my brother-in-law was a bartender at Maggie Miley’s. Awesome place.

VenkmansLament · December 18, 2020, 3:02am

Is his name Dave, by chance?

EConroy419 · December 18, 2020, 3:05am

Dave worked there when I was at ISU and of drinking age, 2015-17. Good dude. Gave me and my friends lots of free Jameson shots during the Cubs run.

kevjones · December 18, 2020, 3:08am

Nope, he was there around 2003-2008 I would guess.

VenkmansLament · December 18, 2020, 3:18am

Dave made my first legal drink at Maggie’s in 2008.