Stick with what works
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times dished an idiosyncrasy of Gov. Pat Quinn in a column this week.
According to Sweet, the governor wears the same exact purple and silver pinstriped tie for all of the special events he attends.
“He does not own several mansions [a la GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner], but owns and rotates five identical ties for special events,” a source told her. “Three ties are in good shape, but two are showing their threads.”
A tough interview
Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week gave Hillary Rodham Clinton a hard time for recently telling Diane Sawyer of “ABC World News” that she and former President Bill Clinton were “dead broke” when he left office.
“Hillary, ‘dead broke.’ Really?” Emanuel said while interviewing the former U.S. Secretary of State at a Chicago Ideas week event Wednesday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
“That may have not been the most artful way of saying that Bill and I had gone through a lot of different phases in our lives,” Clinton explained. “That was then, this is now and obviously we are very fortunate. … We’ve been blessed.”
Real Chicago
From Crain’s Chicago Business: Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals at its next meeting is set to consider a zoning-change request from an affiliate of Van Nuys, Calif.-based Bunim/Murray Productions, which would allow for the filming of an upcoming season of MTV’s long-running show “The Real World.”
The production company intends to outfit a property located at 1100 W. Randolph St. in the Fulton Market district as “a seven-bed, temporary, group-living residence,” the board’s agenda states. Further alterations include a new kitchen, shower stalls, lighting and painting. The board is slated to consider the proposal on June 20.
The property is owned by David Firestein, a New York-based retail broker.
Riding naked
World Naked Bike Ride: Chicago’s annual nude bike ride through the city is scheduled for Saturday.
The 14-mile ride, which is expected to include about 800 cyclists in an attempt to raise awareness of urban biking, is planned to begin in the West Loop around 8 p.m, according to Chicago Magazine.
Despite the fact that public nudity is against the law, only a small number of participants in past events have received citations, as a Chicago Police Department spokesman said the ride “poses no public safety threat.”
-Tom Butala