"You know it's October when the pumpkins outnumber the tomatoes." [Photographs: Nick Kindelsperger] I arrived at the Green City Market in Lincoln Park on a truly miserable morning. The infamous winds of Chicago were howling off the lake and biting me through my terribly thin hoodie. With my arms folded over, I made my way through the market, wishing I had worn a coat. The first person I talked to about vegetables just broke into laughter. She would have felt sorry for me, she explained, if I wasn't so irresponsible. How did it end so quickly? Though Green City Market runs all year-round, after October it retreats in to an indoor location. I don't blame them. Though they can still...
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I was woken up at approximately 1:30 on Wednesday morning by the sound of thunder and what looked like fireworks going off outside my window. When I raced over to the TV to check out what was going on, I saw a massive red blob stretching across nearly half the state, heading straight for Chicago. The storm had only begun. Somehow, I managed to continue sleeping through the storm and when I woke up later that morning, the sky was blue. I decided to head off to the farmers' market, not thinking that much about the storm. I never imagined the storm would cause so much damage. As I walked up to Chicago's Green City Market, limbs covered the...
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