While Chicago-area residents have gotten to enjoy a late taste of summer throughout the past week with several days of 80-degree highs, an abrupt switch to fall.
Although this week has seen temperatures over 80 degrees across the Chicago area, things will feel much more fall-like this weekend as temperatures are expected.
The Mint Julep darling of Kentucky bourbon makers and the cocktail linked to the venerated American horse race, the first of the Triple Crown championship that celebrates oversized hats, pampered 3-year-old thoroughbreds, drinking culture and lots of money owes its continued existence to ice, something we twenty-first century folks generally take for granted.