OTL #782: Funkytown Brewery opens, Affordable housing loss in Cook Co, The Secret History of Ouray

<p>Mike Stephen learns about a new local Black-owned brewery called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/funkytown_brewery" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Funkytown</a> from co-owners Richard Bloomfield, Zachary Day, and Gregory Williams, discusses <a href= "https://www.housingstudies.org/releases/state-rental-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the loss of affordable housing</a> in Chicago with executive director of the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University Geoff Smith, and discovers the Secret History of the local country rock band <a href= "https://chicagoreader.com/music/country-rock-veterans-ouray-keep-gigging-40-years-after-their-last-album/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ouray</a>. And Mike recounts his standoff with a Chicago rat, since the city has once again been named the "rattiest" in America.</p>