Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Jon Hansen, in for Bob Sirott, to share unique stories of 2024 that Block Club Chicago covered that listeners may have not been familiar with. Shamus reflects on:

So Many Divvy Bikes Are in Lake Michigan That There’s Now A Group Dedicated To Fishing Them Out: The Divvy Fishers Society was started by Glenn Rischke, Chicago’s Great Lake Jumper, to serve as a cleanup crew to retrieve bikes that kept appearing in Lake Michigan during the summer. The members of the group are all frequent swimmers in the lake.

Chicago’s Essential Dive Bars: The History And Legacy Of 14 Iconic Watering Holes: Linze Rice dives deep to find what being a dive bar truly means. Linze also breaks down some iconic dive bars in Chicago and details their history from their origin to now.