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Category Archives: Chicago
SWIMMING LESSONS
Life with Charley:You Can Go Home Againby Charles McKelvy Yes, you can go home again.Really!I base my claim on a recent realization I had while driving through the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. I realized as I drove north along … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Chicago, swimming
Tagged Chicago, Fox Lake Challenge, James S. McKelvy, Lake Michigan, Rainbow Beach, swimming
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PHOTO STOP AT 57TH STREET
(Chicago, IL) I had my Canon PowerShot SX50 HS digital camera at the ready Sunday as I motored home from the Monastery of the Holy Cross on what I call the scenic route along the south shore of Lake Michigan. … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, Lake Michigan
Tagged Chicago, Lake Michigan, Museum of Science and Industry
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SHIP CROSSING
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Tagged fresh water shipping, Great Lakes shipping, Lake Michigan, shipping
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ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF CHICAGO
I returned Sunday to the Chicago neighborhood of my early childhood: South Shore. Specifically, I checked in at the South Shore Cultural Center for a brief trip to the “necessary room.” It was ready and waiting, and, after a wee … Continue reading
A MATCH MADE IN THE NEWSROOM
Life with Charley:The Write Womanby Charles McKelvy I left you in the lurch last time, didn’t I?Yes, I was about to meet the love of my life, the fair Natalie DeViney, in the editorial offices of Crain Communications, in Chicago, … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, City News Bureau, writing/writers
Tagged 1976, Chicago, City News, Crain Communications, reporters
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BACK TO THE BEGINNING
(Chicago, IL) As Joe Rochetto and I were cruising north on South Shore Drive on Saturday afternoon, I mentioned that we were directly east of the apartment building in which I spent the first six years of my life. Joe … Continue reading
RARE SIGHTING
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Tagged birding in Chicago, Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Chicago birds
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YOU CAN GO BACK!
Who says you can’t go back? I, for one, plan on going back to the neighborhood of my early childhood, South Shore, this very day. I passed through the eponymous Chicago neighborhood two weeks ago on the way to the … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, trains, Travels with Charley
Tagged 71st Street, Chicago, Chicago neighborhoods, old Chicago neighborhoods, South Shore
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LAKE SHORE DRIVE
(Chicago, IL) My good buddy Joe Rochetto and I took a road trip to the Windy City on Sunday for Corpus Christi festivities at the Monastery of the Holy Cross and then a walk to the White Sox to watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, lake shore drive, Museum of Science and Inudstry
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LOVIN’ THAT LSD (LAKE SHORE DRIVE)
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Tagged 57th Street Beach, Chicago, lake shore drive, Monastery of the Holy Cross
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CELEBRATING SOUTH SHORE
I spent the first six years of my life, from 1950-56, in the eponymous South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. I learned to walk and talk at the Fairhaven Apartments, dined and went to horse shows at the South Shore Country … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Rainbow Beach, South Shore, South Shore Country Club, South Shore Cultural Center
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ABROAD IN BRIDGEPORT
In honor of my viritual visit today to the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago’s historic Bridgeport neighborhood, I wanted to present these photos from my actual visit last Sunday.
MIDWAY
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Tagged aircraft, Chicago, Chicago Midway, Midway, Midway Airport, on final approach
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TANKS, CHICAGO
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Tagged armored division, Chicago, military memorials, Patton tank, tank corps, war
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FREE TO TRAVEL
Travels with Charley:Travel by Oneby Charles McKelvy I have traveled well by myself since childhood, when I would take flights of fancy on my made-in-Chicago Schwinn on the South Side of Chicago.I was rigged for night-riding and would assume the … Continue reading
RUBY’S FUNERAL
BONNIE “RUBY” ROCHETTOEULOGYBY CHARLES MCKELVYMaggiano’s Little ItalySchaumburg, IllinoisTUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017 Let’s just cut to the chase and call her Ruby, and, Ruby, we all know you liked to say of yourself: “I did not recognize my beauty.”Ruby, we are … Continue reading
THE RETURN OF PANDY
When my buddy Ren Bartlett and I were little boys, in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago in the early 1950s, our mothers, Lu Bartlett and Hannah McKelvy, bought us stuffed panda bears that we, and countless baby boomers like … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago
Tagged Baby Boom, Boomer toys, Boomers, Panda Bears, Pandy, stuffed Pandas
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TRAVEL BY TWO
Travels with Charley:Travel by Twoby Charles McKelvy We are not meant to walk alone.Case in point: On a splendid fall day last November, Mark Barrett of Battle Creek, Mich., and your faithful Harbert-Michigan-based correspondent, met in Sawyer, Mich. and drove … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, coronavirus
Tagged Chicago, companionship, Covid-19, hiking, lock-downs, togetherness, two is better than one, walking
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MEMORY OF MOM
Posted in Chicago, Hannah McKelvy
Tagged Chicago, for Auld Lang Syne, Hannah McKelvy, New Year's Eve, StoryCorps
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