Big Top Shorewood Rewind

We've told you time and again about what a breathtakingly magnificent place is to live.

Forget about living there — it's an awesome and spectacular place merely to behold. This is undeniable.

But for all that, every now and again there is something going on somewhere else that isn't happening in Shorewood. It's not often, and it's never anything important, but once in a while we have to stray outside the village limits for one reason or another.

This week, it was for the Kelly Miller (not to be confused with this Kelly Miller) Circus. A couple of us from the Shorewood Patch caught it in Downers Grove on Monday. It was a good time. Our favorite thing was the juggler and the clowns when they all did tricks for us.

We noticed the same circus was going on down in Channahon later in the week, but they didn't have the elephants for that show. And what good is a circus without elephants? We'd rather have no circus at all, which once again just shows Shorewood's superiority to Channahon and everywhere else.

You want more proof? Well we'll give you more proof by showing you all the fabulous things that happened just last week. We do this every Sunday, and we call it the SHOREWOOD REWIND.

Circus was in town

We went to that circus we were talking about.

Police handle panhandler

A Joliet man intent on panhandling in traffic kept coming back to Route 52 at the junction with Interstate 55 and got arrested twice within two hours, the police said.

Thorward thinking

For a second week in a row, the action film Thor was the most popular Redbox movie rental in Shorewood.

Not our problem

Former Shorewood Economic Development Director Nancy Roman left town so she could move in with her new husband in his home state of Texas. Yet somehow Roman . The New Lenox job allows her to live in Texas and covers the cost of travelling to Illinois a few times a month. We say, Good for her. The public speakers at a New Lenox meeting Monday night, .

So money and they don't even know it

thought Moneyball was well worth the price of admission.

New bank in town

Top executives from the downstate bank that took over the meeting to say hello.