Dave and Chris will be appearing live at Orland Park Library. Dave will give a book away for free to the first person to yell Chris loves alpacas! You have to yell it after the program begins. It should be a fun time, so come out to the meet the author event. For more information, go to Orland Park Library

Come see Dave and Chris discuss their book aat the Glenside Public Library. For more information, check out http://www.glensidepld.org/. We generally don’t prepare for these things, so we start off discussing how we wrote the book, and usually end up in a fight. There’s nothing like seeing a couple of overweight guys rolling around on [...]

Every year, I hear crazy stories about jobs handled by police officers during the holidays. If you’ve ever had to shop in a mall, you know that people get a little nutso this time of year. Being laid up at home this year means I didn’t hear much about what happened in Chicago, but thanks [...]

Merry Christmas from the Beat Cop’s Guide. Chris and Dave hope that this, the last Christmas will be the best ever.

You ever tell stories to your kids about walking 5 miles through snowdrifts uphill both ways to get to school? The “News of the Weird” has the definitive Hard Road to School story. Kids going to school in Pili, China face a 120 mile trek that includes: …an inches-wide path cut into a cliff over [...]

This may be a little off the beaten path for the Beat Cop’s Guide. The Library of Congress is probably the most misunderstood governmental agency. Most people think that it’s where congressmen go to check out the latest W.E.B. Griffin novel. That’s what thought at one time. My interest in the Library of Congress started [...]

If you had been in the hospital for three months, where you go to eat when you got out? I remember when my wife got out of the hospital when our son was born she really wanted a McDonald’s cheeseburger. Granted, she had given up alcohol, cigarettes, and ate healthy for nine months so she [...]

I’m personally fond of Moody’s on Broadway. I’ve had some really good cheeseburgers around town. I’d like to know where is the best. Vote on Twitter, Facebook, or this website. If we get a lot of places, we’ll create a poll. Tell us what you think, the place has to be in Chicago and not [...]

Ron Santo voted in to the Baseball Hall of Fame

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