What Chicago is talking about this week:
Some of us are still reacting to the "surprise" move of the G8 summit to Camp David, depriving Chicagoans of part of our big international weekend (although we do still get the NATO summit on May 20th and 21st, so there's that). Leadership-types have gone out of their way to dismiss the suggestion, but if it smells, walks and talks like a credible security threat -- it was probably a credible security threat. [Note to self -- visit family in Indiana on May 20th and 21st, and consider taking the cats on the trip.]
Regardless -- what I am talking about this week (I am in Chicago until spring break starts on Wednesday, but I might be alone in my conversation about this) ... is the woodpecker that I swear I heard here in Wrigleyville when I opened up the windows this morning. And I'm not in anyway attempting euphemistic cleverness here, but I'm literally 95% sure that it was an Illinois woodpecker (like the one pictured in this stock photo) that was going to town on some trees on my street!
ILLINOIS GOTS WILDLIFE, YO!:
http://web.extension.illinois.edu/wildlife/directory_show.cfm?species=woodpecker
SURPRISE! NO G-8 FOR YOU!:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/05/g8-summit-moved-to-camp-david/
SURPRISE, SURPRISE!! NO PARADE PERMIT DURING THE NATO SUMMIT FOR YOU!:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/05/g8-summit-moved-to-camp-david/
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