Archive for July, 2009
What is going on in this fair city that I love so much?
Todays rant will include the parking meters that we all loath!!! Getting around the city is becoming such a pain in the $%#, I wonder how many of us are now skipping it and heading to the suburbs. I live in the city, and find myself going to the suburbs to shop. There are just too many days that I don’t feel like going to the bank, getting 42 rolls of quarters, finding a place to park, going to the store for 15 min, so my meter won’t run out, and repeating the same thing over and over until the errands are complete. Oh, I could park in a garage, but that will cost me more than my grocery bill for five people.
Unfortunately, it is cheaper and easier to get in the car and drive to the suburbs to do my shopping, have dinner, whatever. I am beginning to think my wonderful city is being totally set up for tourists. I am beginning to feel like I am not welcome in my own city.
Instead of making such asinine decisions, maybe our Mayor and City Council could put their time and energy toward something useful. How about Gang violence? How about innocent children being slaughtered on the street? Mr. Mayor, how many times are you going to tell the community that it is their responsibility to make sure the gang members are identified? That they need to co-operate with the police? Gee, do you think they might be afraid? Do you think someone may retaliate against them? Yes, neighborhood co-operation is important, but police protection is and should be TOP priority. No money for more police officers but enough money to buy Michael Reese hospital for the Olympic Village. No matter how many times you say that the community has to bear the burden, now matter how many anti-violence protests the community puts on, the responsibility rests directly on your shoulders. You and the police commissioner, whom you appoint. That is the way it is supposed to be right? Although, come to think of it, I have never ever heard our Mayor or any member to the City Council say that the “buck” stops with them. I have only heard them say things like, “Sorry, we didn’t have time to read it before we voted.” or, “We were pressured into voting on that before we could study the impact” What? Not sure why we pay you to not do your job. Not sure what good you might be doing us by “not reading” a proposal. After all, you appointed him.
I suppose there is one upside to the economic downturn. The Midway Airport Deal. It fell through. Thank God and the heavens above!!! Imagine the disaster there. It is one thing to turn our parking meters over to company that is as lame as our city council, it is quite another to turn over an airport.
Sorry. I really do love this city, it is just getting too difficult and ridiculous to live here.
Promise, next post will be positive
Peace Always
Alderman Brookins talks jobs & building a Walmart on the southside with Garrard McClendon on CLTV.
Duration : 0:8:49
http://www.janson.com/dvd/show_title.php?pid=20239 Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend is a new one-hour biography of the most notorious gangster in history. On January 17th, 1999, Al Capone would have celebrated his 100th birthday. His exploits in the early part of the century have inspired authors, journalists and filmmakers. Myths have always been woven around the figure of Al Capone. Born in Brooklyn, he began his career in crime as protege to New York underworld boss Frankie Yale in the early 1920’s, and then moved to Chicago where he made himself a multi-millionaire from the protection business, gambling, brothels, and speakeasies. He is most infamous for planning the massacre of seven members of a rival gang on Valentine’s Day in 1929. This was also the year the Justice Department named Eliot Ness to form a special crime-busting squad which came to be known as “The Untouchables.” In 1931 Alphonse Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and began an eleven year sentence in the Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island. Capone died in 1947 and is buried in Chicago’s Mount Carmel Cemetery.
But who really was this man? How did this child of Neapolitan immigrants become the most legendary gangster of the “Roaring Twenties.” Using historical film footage, movie scenes, and dramatic recreations filmed on location in Chicago, Brooklyn, Ellis Island, Florida’s Palm Island, and Alcatraz, Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend not only depicts the rise and fall of “Scarface,” but also looks behind the myths at the private family man. Interviews with Capone’s nephew Harry Hart, and with Capone experts John Binder, Dennis Hoffman and William Balsamo all help to illuminate the social and economic milieu of the ’20s and ’30s that led to the rise of the “Mafia.”
Duration : 0:52:46
Members of the Save Lincoln Square coalition join community members and citizens in protesting eminent domain at the chicago city council building.
Duration : 0:0:23
The blessing ceremony of Welcome Beijing 2008 Olympics & Chicago City in Hosting the Olympics.
Duration : 0:2:18
Check out the Gracie Barra Academy in Chicago il with a certified Black belt to teach you the worlds most effective Martial art.
Duration : 0:7:12
A delegation from Chicago 2016 made a presentation at the ociation of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) General embly in Abuja, Nigeria where President Barack Obama delivered a video message expressing his support for Chicago 2016.
Duration : 0:2:2
Jacquelyn P. Muller, AVP – Public Relations, (412) 995-7262
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(PITTSBURGH – September 12, 2005) The Art Institutes announced
today that it will assist both domestic and international
students from universities in New Orleans, southern Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama universities, which have been closed for
the foreseeable future due to the devastation caused by
Hurricane Katrina.
The Art Institutes will make available both on-campus and
online courses that might be able to permit dislocated students
to progress in their academic careers during this semester of
disruption. Students at a university forced to close by
Hurricane Katrina may register at any of The Art Institutes 31
locations across the nation for courses, on a space-available
basis, for the fall semester.
The Art Institutes will waive tuition for dislocated students
who have already registered and paid tuition at their home
institution for the fall 2005 semester. If dislocated students
have not yet paid their tuition at their home institution, they
will be assessed the lesser of the current published tuition and
fees at the home institution, or The Art Institutes’ published
tuition and fees for the fall semester, as determined by the
school president.
“The Art Institutes strives to assist college students who have
been affected by Hurricane Katrina,” says Dave Pauldine,
president of The Art Institutes. “The Art Institutes offers this
initiative as a way to reach out to the students in the Gulf
Coast region whose lives and education have been impacted by
Hurricane Katrina and do what we can to assist those students.”
The Art Institutes is a group of 31educational institutions
located throughout North America. Offering a broad range of
programs including: audio production, culinary arts, culinary
management, fashion design, fashion marketing, graphic design,
industrial design technology, interior design, media arts &
animation, multimedia & Web design, photography, restaurant
management and video production. Not all programs are offered at
all schools.
The Art Institutes operate in Atlanta, Arlington, VA (as The
Art Institute of Washington), Boston (as The New England
Institute of Art), Charlotte, Chicago and Schaumburg, IL,
Cincinnati (as The Art Institute of Ohio – Cincinnati), Dallas,
Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles (as The
Art Institute of California – Los Angeles and California Design
College), Miami (as Miami International University of Art &
Design), Minneapolis, New York, Orange County, CA, Philadelphia,
Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco,
Seattle, Tampa, Toronto , Vancouver (as The Art Institute of
Vancouver, York, PA (as Bradley Academy of the Visual Arts) and
The Art Institute Online, a division of The Art Institute of
Pittsburgh.
Students seeking additional information about The Art
Institutes’ initiative can view the policy in its entirety at
(www.artinstitutes.edu/katrina) or call the National Admissions
Information Center at 1-888-328-7900.
The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), with 31 education
institutions located throughout North America, provide an
important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary
professionals. The parent company of The Art Institutes,
Education Management Corporation (www.edmc.com) is among the
largest providers of private post-secondary education in North
America, based on student enrollment and revenue. Student
enrollment exceeded 66,000 as of fall 2004. EDMC has 71 primary
campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC’s
education institutions offer a broad range of academic programs
concentrated in the media arts, design, fashion, culinary arts,
behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information
technology and business fields, culminating in the award of
associate’s through doctoral degrees. EDMC has provided
career-oriented education for over 40 years.
The Art Institutes
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/the-art-institutes-offers-educational-assistance-1148.html
This fine upstanding citizen shows us why he should be elected to city council.
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Cell Block Tango from DeWitt High Schools production of Chicago in spring of 2007.
Performed by:(Probably spelled wrong)
Pop – Mara Wilaman, Matt Gehrls
Six – Sydney Watkins, Drew Peabody
Squish – Jacqui Myers, Devin Laurent
Uh-uh – Kiley Kyser, Adam Lawrance
Cisero – Carly Palmer, Michelle Sharkey
Lipshichs – Lindsay Chestnut, Kevin Hansen
Duration : 0:6:24