It’s Monday, let’s get you up to speed.
Halloween, diner food, controversial developers and Ventra were on top of mind last week and filled out our top five stories of the week. Here’s this week’s “What Clicked.”
Our friends at Second City have suggestions for couples currently bickering about their complimentary costumes. Among the nine types of couples you’ll encounter this Halloween? The basics and the “bun-in-the-ovens.”
Uptown developer Jay Michael says he isn’t a “gentrifier” but a “brooklynizer” when it comes to his newest projects. He’s revamping old properties, but not everyone’s happy with his plans.
>>No. 3: Dove’s Luncheonette review
The old-school diner is back, critic Michael Nagrant writes, and it has set up shop in Logan Square. Hangovers beware, he says, this place has some massive dishes that can “slay” any morning-after ailment.
>>No. 4: Chicago’s Haunted Houses
RedEye/Metromix web producer Rianne Coale grew up in a legitimately haunted house (Seriously, tweet her about it.), but it didn’t stop some Chicago-area haunted attractions from freaking her out a bit. Check out her reviews, and avoid the one that made her laugh and not scream.
More Top Picks How We Test
“Chicago deserves more—a transit card that reflects our place as an emerging tech city, not one that seems straight out of the year 1871,” writes RedEye’s Tracy Swartz about Ventra and its perhaps still undelivered innovation.
Editor’s note: We, unlike CTA, innovate a ton. We give web reporter and producer Mick Swasko a whole ton of leeway when it comes to analyzing these traffic analytics. And he always comes back with something different. See. We innovate.
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