Pulaski Street, also known as Honorary Casimir Pulaski Drive

A Boston Cooler doesn't come from Boston, it comes from Detroit. It's Vernors with vanilla ice cream.

🚨 Special Urban Report 🚨 Pump N Munch Minneapolis, MN

Sister Jean is now a cartoon character.

Michigander pointing out his hometown. Looks like Ypsilanti.

I bought this autographed book, figuring it might be worth something someday. Unsurprising takeaway: Newsom owes his career to his family's relationship with the Gettys.

City chicken is actually pork on skewers. It dates back to the days when chicken was a more expensive delicacy than pork.

Gwendolyn Brooks mural, Woodlawn, Chicago

SPAM Museum, Austin, Minnesota

Obama family mural (defaced), Woodlawn, Chicago

Fountain of Time, Lorado Taft, Washington Park, Chicago

Booby's restaurant, Niles, Illinois

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

The sign outside this Hyde Park bar says Woodlawn Tap, but everyone calls it Jimmy's, after its first owner.

Minnesota resistance t-shirt

Multiracial mural, Little Village, Chicago

Portraits of great Chicagoans: a series

The prairie in its virgin state, Elwood, Illinois

George Halas and Walter Payton statues, Soldier Field, Chicago

Whiting, Indiana's claim to fame

134th Place, the most rural street in Chicago. It backs up to the Calumet River.

Supreme House of Cheese Toluca, IL

Holdingford, Minnesota, claims to be the inspiration for Lake Wobegon. Garrison Keillor lived in the area in the 1970s, when he was a struggling young writer.

Flint, Michigan

A tavern in the land of sky blue waters

Detroit coney or Flint coney?

Appropriately, Hermosa is now a Latino neighborhood.

Douglas(s) Park Fieldhouse

Vintage sign, Elwood Indiana. #photography

Park Bait Shop, Montrose Harbor, Chicago

Rogers Park Presbyterian Church, where two of my children were baptized.

Grand Haven lighthouse, Grand Haven, Michigan

Hammond, Indiana's first NFL team, the Hammond Pros, 1920-1926. Is the NFL returning after 100 years?

Sign for the Nodak Cafe, Ellendale, North Dakota

Sophisti-Cuts Wing, ND

Rib joint, Austin, Chicago

Lake Street, Chicago

The worst beer I've ever drunk.

Abandoned synagogue, Rogers Park, Chicago

The address hasn't changed, but the building has: the location of Hillary Clinton's childhood home, Edgewater, Chicago.

Dutch trader signs up a Manhattan Indian as the first Amway representative, New York City.

Bought this t-shirt today, to show I stand with Minnesota.

Doorway, Belmont-Cragin, Chicago

Packzki Day at Wiklanski's Bakery, Belmont-Cragin, Chicago

On Paczki Day, the line will be around the corner at Weber's Bakery in Garfield Ridge.

The Slinger at the Diner Grill in Lake View, Chicago. Hash browns, hamburger, two eggs, cheese, onions, chili on top. Finish it and get your name on the wall.

This is why ICE invaded Chicago. Chicago's not changing for ICE.

Happy Presidents Day to the only president among my relations.

Currently reading, and will be for a long time.

Monument to KISS in Cadillac, Michigan. In 1975, the band played a concert at the high school after hearing that the football team listened to their music to get fired up for games.