This week’s snowstorm along the East Coast has apparently triggered the adoption of what’s become as much a symbol of Chicago as deep-dish pizza and “The Bean:” the time-honored winter practice of ”dibs.”
The Federal Hill section of Baltimore looked like Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood after nearly a foot of snow fell this week. CBS affiliate WJZ-TV captured video of folding chairs, boxes and cones saving street parking spaces dug out by hard-working neighbors.
“You shovel it, you put something there, that’s your spot,” said one man…