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A comedic take on Chicago’s municipal code: The Rundown

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Good afternoon! It’s Tuesday, and these aerial photos show what Grant Park looks like after this year’s Lollapalooza. (Spoiler: Doesn’t look like a lot of grass survived this year.) Here’s what else you need to know today. 1. A Chicago comic with da accent turns the city’s municipal code into laughs in a new podcast Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the “last gasp” of an old-school childhood growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s on Chicago’s blue-collar Northwest Side. “Pre-cell phone, pre-internet … where you’re just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer,” Scorch said. “You’re coming home when the streetlights turn on. You’re calling up your friends’ houses on their landline.” As my colleague Mariah Woelfel writes, that “last gasp” was more like a deep inhale that shaped Scorch into a Chicagoan’s Chicagoan with an imaginative sense of humor and authoritative knowledge of the city. He’s been exhaling Chicago-centric creative projects that

First report: Chicago comic with da accent turns city's municipal code into laughs in new podcast — suntimes.com, 7d