Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 With the state still shut down due to the corona virus outbreak, I figured this was the second-best time to look through this collection and cover the ones I\u2019ve done\/eaten\/seen.<\/p>\n
We continue things this week with one of the entries from the Culture category: The Second City, from Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n
Profoundly influential in American comedy, this nearly 60-year-old theater retains its edge by putting on a regular schedule of new, sketch-based shows that skewer politics and contemporary life.<\/p>\n
It’s like Saturday Night Live<\/em>, but right in front of you, and with sketches that know how to end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I made my one and (so far) only trip to The Second City on November 4, 2017, in the midst of what turned out to be one of the worst weekends of my life.\u00a0 Without getting too much into the drama of the beginning of the end of (at least what I thought was) an important friendship, a night out with my college friends was a nice respite from everything else that was swirling around me at the time.\u00a0 I’d certainly like to go back sometime, perhaps to see what they make of this whole shelter-in-place craziness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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