"...the second floor of the NBC Tower, tucked between the Equitable Building and the Tribune Tower, is where The Jerry Springer Show is taped. It just wouldn't be the haunted landscape around the Michigan Avenue Bridge if some symbolic television apocalypse did not happen here each day. The constant profanity makes the show into a an unintelligible barrage of bleeps. Watching it is like listening to a constant storm warning, which is exactly what it is."

--From Take the Cannoli, by Sarah Vowell