Knights of Columbus Police Council 12173- Chicago

08/03/2026

You people who regularly like the postings: Thank You! I helps me know that the messages were transmitted. I try to keep the messages germane to our purpose & Chicago.

08/03/2026

Assignments/Responsibilities for this Fraternal Year. If there is something you are interested in- do not hesitate to contact your Grand Knight.

08/03/2026

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08/02/2026

Brothers,

Chicago - St. Cabrini Council #182 is looking for some neighboring Knights to assist the Council at the Parish Picnic on 8/23/26.
Old St Mary's is located at 1500 S. Michigan Ave.

I am looking for 12 volunteers total, and the Council has thus far provided 7 volunteers.
(of course, the more the merrier)
Some of you guys helped out at the Fish Fry this past Lent and it was a resounding success!

Council 182 is the first and oldest Council established west of the Allegheny Mountains and is celebrating its 130 Anniversary this year. It is in the midst of a total rebuild and we have already recruited 4 new Members in the first month of this Fraternal Year.

Of the 12 desired volunteers, about half will be tasked with grilling hot dogs for about 500 people and the other half will be doing whatever the picnic coordinator needs from us.

We are looking to begin around 9:45 AM and the Picnic will occur after 11 AM Mass, so from roughly 12 Noon till 2 PM. I will be there for the entirety.

Please let me know if you can help out and feel free to share this with other Brothers that might want to give us a hand. Please wear your Council pol if you do join us.

Thanks all!

Fraternally,

Jeff

Jeffrey A. Griggs
District Deputy #5
[email protected]
312-218-9877

08/02/2026

07/31/2026

Chicago food makes perfect sense until you cross the city limits and realize the rest of the country has a lot of questions.

Take the hot dog. To anyone else, dropping neon green relish, sport peppers, a pickle spear, and tomato wedges onto a poppy seed bun looks like absolute chaos.

To us, it’s a perfectly balanced masterpiece dragged through the garden. And yes, the rule is real: if you ask for ketchup, you are going to get stared down. It’s just how it is.

Then you have the pizza debate, which tourists always get wrong. Deep-dish gets the postcards and the travel show features, but thin-crust is what actually runs this city. We cut it into squares, call it a day, and eat it on a Tuesday night on the couch. It’s local law.

But the real heart of Chicago food is the stuff you can only find at a corner stand or a bulletproof glass counter. It's an Italian beef ordered "juicy" or "dipped," where the whole roll gets submerged in gravy until it's a beautiful, soggy mess you have to eat leaning forward at a 45-degree angle.

It’s a pizza puff dropped straight into a deep fryer on the South Side, or a Maxwell Street Polish piled sky-high with sweet, grilled onions after a late night.And good luck finding our snacks anywhere else.

People who move away spend years trying to find a substitute for a bag of crunchy Vitner’s chips, a cold bottle of bright green Green River soda, or the specific sweet-and-savory magic of a Garrett Mix tin.

Chicago food isn't trying to be fancy or delicate. It’s heavy, it’s unpretentious, and it's messy as hell.

It’s the kind of regional comfort food that is deeply tied to neighborhood memories, and it's the exact reason why homesick locals get immediate cravings the second they step off a plane back at O'Hare.

07/31/2026

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07/31/2026

Our store is finally open for a limited time. Once the store is closed on August 9th, all orders will be processed.

It’s a 6-8 week period for jersey production, from the time the store closes.

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