NFT Member Profile - Jill Jaracz

Jill Jaracz

ORIGINALLY from the Northwest Indiana part of "Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana," Jill Jaracz has been calling the city home since 1995. A freelance writer by trade, when she's not scoping out cool places for NFT, she's writing for publications like Gapers Block and Beerdorks.com.

Neighborhood:

East Lakeview, Chicago

Website:

www.divaplatform.com

10 NFT Questions:

My Day Job:
Freelance Writer

What I'm listening to:
Podcasts! Adam Carolla, RFF Radio, This American Life, & Outside the Loop

What I'm reading:
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

What I believe in:
The Golden Rule

What I really think of NFT:
The book is incredibly useful--much moreso than I thought when I first started this gig.

Further contact info:
Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/577/a28 Facebook: Jill Jaracz My Space: Jill Jaracz Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jilljaracz

Jill's Photos

Jill's Features

Kitchen of Dreams

The equipage of the kitchen: the stockpile of the heart. Do you have what it takes to furnish your cooking space? Join Jill Jaracz on a culinary voyage 'twixt Oriental crockery and mass-produced Swedish stuff, as Jill prepares to lavish you with the secret of her sparkling kitchen: the addresses of the stores she patronizes, and some suggestions. Get ready to cook something. I hope it's tasty and doesn't take til 3 am. I hate that.

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Beer: English for Beer.

Beer: It may be the world's most popular alcoholic beverage but that doesn't mean you have to be democratic about it. From cask-conditioned to microbrewed, let Jill Jaracz show you a whole new world of fermented yeast.

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The Little Man

Drinking Guide to Chicago

Bottle Service? Old Style? But what does it all mean?! Wading through Chicago drinking lingo is a fate no novice NFTer should be subject to, right? Jill Jaracz cuts through the terminology, flies past the red tape and jumps headlong into a metaphorical tankard of beer. Come along!

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Custom Mapguides

Beer Here!

I Could Go for a Cocktail!

Favorite Stuff

Chicago

	American Science & Surplus
	Bobtail Soda Fountain
	Bridget McNeill's

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Favorite Websites

www.beerdorks.com
www.gapersblock.com

Jill's Radars

Reckless Records
Still Reckless

8/25/2009 Shopping, East Lakeview — After a couple of decades near Belmont, Reckless Records packed up and moved across the street and...

Jewel-Osco
Going to Jewel

8/20/2009 Pharmacies, East Lakeview — Look. If you want to broadcast you don't know Chicago, say you're "going to Jewel." A native never s...

The Chicago Theatre
Glamorama: August 21

8/17/2009 Theaters-Performing Arts Centers, The Loop — An evening of glitz, style, fashion, food, and music could only be called Glamorama, and every year...

Café Ba-Ba-Reeba!
Ta-Ta-Tapas

7/23/2009 Restaurants, Lincoln Park — A tapas dinner always amazes me. I go with a group of friends, we order tons of food and sangria, ye...

Hoosier Mama Pie Company
Piece 'O Pie

7/15/2009 Restaurants, Old Town / Near North — When I brought home an 8-inch pie from Hoosier Mama Pie Company, my husband asked me, "Where's yours...

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Submitted Listings

Chicago

	44th Ward Dinner Party
	Agent Provocateur
	Amp Rock Lounge
	Andrea Vangna
	Angin Mamiri

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