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It’s kind of blowing my mind a little bit that the Chicago Critics Film Festival is now in its 13th year. Thirteen. That’s not nothing. That’s not some fly-by-night thing anymore, that’s a tradition. And I remember the beginning of this thing like it was yesterday. Back in 2013, a bunch of my friends and colleagues from the Chicago Film Critics Association (Erik Childress, Steve Prokopy, Peter Sobczynski, Collin Souter, Brian Tallerico, and a whole crew of incredibly passiona

Last Wednesday, December 11th, the Chicago Film Critics Association kicked off the film awards season with its annual Awards Dinner at Budweiser Brickhouse Tavern on Gallagher Way , right next to Wrigley Field (yeah, where the Yum Yum Donuts used to be). I have been a member of the CFCA, on and off, since the organization began in 1989. I've presented awards, made phone calls, tallied votes, set up chairs, and even driven celebrity presenters and winners to and from the a