About me

Thanks for stopping by! A brief intro – I’m an independent financial/business journalist who’s logged hard time as a reporter and editor at Bloomberg News, Crain’s Chicago Business, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press and a few other stops the past couple decades. I’ve spent a lot of time on Chicago’s trading floors chronicling the exciting worlds of commodity markets and finance, covered subjects ranging from the World Series, the Federal Reserve and the biggest oil boom in history, and have also freelanced for, to name a few, the Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, and CME Group, the futures exchange operator.

As the name of this blog implies, I live in the north side of Chicago in an enclave known as Wrigleyville, close enough to see the lights of the Friendly Confines from my roof. The lovely Kate, a Downers Grove, Ill. native, serves as my part-time agronomist’s assistant and full-time wife. We’ve got a couple sprouts of our own, Paige (almost 4, as of autumn 2013) and Ellie (almost 2). Between those two and the corn, I’m not sure what’s growing faster.

Finally, I’m a proud Cyclone alumnus of Iowa State University and grew up on a farm outside of the town of Williamsburg in the great state of Iowa, home of the tall corn and the inspiration for ths blog.

I hope you enjoy watching corn grow even a fraction as much as I do. Cheers! Bruce