CITY OF THE BIG SHOULDERS (& GRASSHOPPERS)

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs on winning their first World Series since 1908, as well as the best World Series in many years (at least since 2001!), over the equally excellent Cleveland Indians. Hope the celebrations in the Windy City are less destructive than the havoc wreaked by...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week's honoree...

...one of the gargantuan grasshoppers that invaded That Toddlin' Town in Beginning of the End, Bert I. Gordon's 1957 epic, as depicted here in a Chicago TV ad from April 29, 1961.