Chicago comic with da accent turns city’s municipal code into laughs in new podcast

Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the “last gasp” of an old school childhood growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s on Chicago’s blue collar Northwest Side. “Pre-cell phone, pre-internet … where you're just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer,” Scorch said. “You're coming home when the streetlights turn on. You're calling up your friends' houses on their landline.” That “last gasp” was more like a deep inhale that shaped Scorch into a Chicagoan’s…