Going to the Taste of Chicago food festival last week was a great experience, but my favorite part of Chicago was the wealth of panhandlers — the most inventive ones I’ve ever seen and all focused on music.  High schoolers beating on plastic jugs with drum sticks, middle-aged men dancing puppets to Van Morrison and Coltrane, and numerous saxophonists accompanied by a boom box blaring kitschy synth: they were all good enough for my one-dollar bills. But my favorite was the group of tapdancers seen here. A lot of energy and obviously some real training made for a great show in between Chicago pizza and sauteed goat (don’t ask).