Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: Chicago

  • On the Road

    Hello from Chicagoland. I am here for a long weekend, for a wedding. As per policy at rumored dot com, I don’t write about family, and most of the trip is family stuff, so this will be short. Flying for the first time in over two years was… fun. I had a real trial by…

  • My grandparents in a Steven Seagal movie

    The final lasting image of my grandparents together is a Steven Seagal movie. No, my grandparents were not sixth-degree black belts, and neither of them had the 80s hip-guy ponytail. But Seagal’s first movie, Above the Law was shot in their Chicago neighborhood. So whenever the flick’s on cable TV over the weekend, I usually…