Thursday, June 16, 2005

How To Find An Illegal Card Game in the Windy City

"You wake up at O'Hare. You wake up at LaGuardia. You wake up at Logan." How is the itinerant compulsive gambler supposed to get his fix when he's away from his home game? Adrian Holovaty's website Chicagocrime provides this handy map of illegal card games in the Second City.

Chicagocrime, a mash-up of Google's map function and the Chicago Police Department's crime stats, is chock full of other useful information. Like where not to go if you don't want to die.

[Via every newspaper running Greg Sandoval's wire story for the Associate Press.]