The Green Mill is Chicago's oldest Jazz club, open since 1907. Today it is an authentic link to past visitors like Al Capone and his henchman “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn who was the club’s former manager.

Coziest Cafe on the south side

Making leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement

Ongoing favorite place to sit at the bar or more covertly, at a table, chatting with a friend over the seasonal best. Continuous rotation of ingredients creatively meshed with tradition, their food is divine. Similarly, their personnel is familiar, friendly, fashionable and warm.

I am lucky enough to have one of the five Great Lakes of North America right in my backyard. How cool is that?