Dazed and Confused

So, I was invited to the Near North by a friend. He is the Fund admin of the group I am working for and definitely an important person to have drinks with. A mutual friend who owns an IT company, is worth millions and has definite influence on the direction of the fund alse joined us. He is trying to relocate his firm to Bermuda.

So we got together in Old Town in the PM. And from there, I walked all the way up to Diversey & Halsted, better than 2 miles. And I had some fresh Alaskan King Crab at the Half Shell...a place I've patronized since college. The price of crab legs has gone up from $10 to $35..... But the atmosphere has not changed. Certainly the surrounding bad 'Hood is gone.... but the restaurant has not. It has been in business since 1968 and is located in the basement of a greystone.

Years ago we headed north for drinks in the Loop after the market. Everything has changed...but also nothing. We'd start drinking at the exchanges, head to Rush St., then Old Town and finally Lincoln Ave. Durkins was sometimes the last stop on the beer run....and the Ravenswood eL stops at Diversey.