this friday there is a free store to coincide with the day after thanksgiving shopping blitz – there’s clothes, books, electronics, etc, you show up and take what you want and leave. here’s the address and phone number:
Ausgang Studios
1958 W. Walnut 312–829-6967
other good free things that i used to do in chicago… if you go to the downtown library, on the 8th floor they have piano rooms that you can check into and use for an hour for free. i also liked to hang out at the cemetaries along clark between grace and ainslee… quiet and relaxing for reading/journal writing etc… or you could just go to the lake. though i bet it’s pretty cold these days.