'Things have changed - you see both male and female coming in here,' Kempf said. (“It was either that or Chicago, and Chicago’s too big,” as he put it.) Nursing a drink at the bar in the early evening, Norm Kempf said he’d been coming to Olly’s for 20 years, when he moved up from Evansville for work. “God isn’t going to give me what I want if I keep making the wrong decisions, and I think I've had to lose everything to recognize what I have.” Everything else is just trivial.” He was separated from his life partner, “until can get his shit together or I can get him to go to rehab.” “More than anything, it's the only thing that keeps me happy. 'It's my only real passion in life, to be honest,” he said.
