Returning to North Judson typically leads to my resuming a favored pastime, to wit, engaging in crosstown perambulations that usually lead me to no destination other than, ultimately, home, the starting point of these jaunts. In such an eminently walkable small town where I know as many citizens as I do, these generally prove to [...]
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James Matthew Wilson offers a beautiful elegy here, at Front Porch Republic
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I realize that I’m just playing Don Quixote, but I am done with O’Hare International Airport. From the Chicago Tribune:
Chicago celebrated an expected legal victory Thursday allowing it to keep turning earth for an expanded O’Hare International Airport, but suburban opponents vowed to fight for what is left of their neighborhood.
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“Activity [...]
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Vintage Color Photographs of American cities. A tip of the hat to A Welsh View, where Mr Sullivan found the wicked-cool lightning clip.
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