Tag Archives: Chicago

Chicago’s $635M budget deficit…

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…is one pretty damn good reason that selling the city’s parking rights was a bad idea. And the graph is another example of how not to make an infographic. City of Chicago :: Mayor Rahm Emanuel Outlines 2012 Budget Proposal to Secure Chicago’s Future Also: City of Chicago 2012 Budget Ideas

And the winner is…CORE!

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My first foray into political website making has proved a success! Hooray!!!!! The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators has won the seats they were running for (including president) in the Chicago Teachers Union election. Congratulations to everyone at CORE! The website (CORETeachers.com) uses a fully customized WordPress theme (based on Sandbox). …and the winner is, – [...]

Chicago Politics – CORE Forces Run-Off In CTU Election (via Gapers Block)

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The slate of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, CORE, has forced a run-off election against the incumbent United Progressive Caucus slate, headed by President Marilyn Stewart. UPC has come under harsh criticism from the opposing slates for a perceived unwillingness to organize with teachers and parents to fight privatization, as well as for [...]

Artist: Steve Musgrave

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If you don’t recognize the name, you should have no trouble recognizing the art-deco and cubism influenced illustration work. Musgrave’s most visible art lines the walls of Chicago’s Addison Red Line CTA station. Currently you can view his realistic still life paintings at Uncommon Ground on Devon (in Edgewater), where you can also eat a [...]

Urban Garden Grows New Lives (via cbs2chicago.com)

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“Got some worms down here!” says my brother Noah at the beginning of this video. CBS 2 News covered the work he’s doing with Cob Connection: Growing food. Working in the soil. Bringing trees to Chicago neighborhoods, one block at a time. That’s the focus of one inner-city organization with a garden in one of [...]

Local German photog in debt to his stroke (via Daily Herald)

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Interesting story about Uwe Gsedl…here’s a tease: “If not for the stroke, I wouldn’t be a photographer,” he said. (And I really dig Daily Herald’s article image navigation.) Daily Herald | It took a stroke for West Chicago photographer to find his calling

DZINE’S “THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE” (via SuperTouch)

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This is old news that I forgot to post a while ago. Dzine has really done some interesting things with 3D art here: DZINE’S “THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE” (via SuperTouch)

Apple spending $4M on North/Clybourn station (via Gizmodo)

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Have you heard that a new Apple Store is being built in the heart of our North/Clybourn traffic/shopping hell? Apple must be so thoroughly disgusted at the state of the CTA Red Line station there that they are kicking in $4M towards the renovation with only a tiny little string attached: [I]n exchange for the [...]

Olympic bid prediction

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If Chicago does not win the bid for the 2016 Summer Games, I predict the president will put the IOC on the list of terrorist organizations. The top leaders of the Olympic committee will supplant the top leaders of Al-Qaeda as the most wanted criminals in the world…

Illinois Governor Runs For His (Political) Life

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