tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26708469398068763642024-03-13T14:30:29.008-05:00TRUE CHICAGOUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-26432372052208191902015-07-24T11:44:00.001-05:002015-07-24T11:44:25.906-05:00Housing and Community Desegregation PoliciesI don't know I believe in desegregation anymore. I want to believe it. I think you can sell respectable minorities moving into white areas or communities, but poor, ghetto, hood rats, with face tattoos. I don't think we are ready for that. Certainly Oak Park, a model, isn't ready to house the most grimy of the poor, who need the housing and opportunities the most. Oak Park is fine with the aura of diversity which feeds the liberal soul. <div><br></div><div>Lloyd <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/us/hud-issuing-new-rules-to-fight-segregation.html?referrer=&_r=0</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-28662602767873262462015-07-23T01:17:00.001-05:002015-07-23T01:17:15.015-05:00Historic Preservation of Our Own SelvesWe just lost the last evidence of the Standard Brewery in Chicago. The old tied-house at the southwest side of Grand and Hamlin, a corner tavern officially licensed to only sell Standard Brewery products, sort of an early franchising of the brand, is gone. <div> We tried to save the building, we tried to get folks to buy it, we tried negotiating with the owners. Ultimately the building came down, the Standard Brewery logo and some architectural pieces of the building were saved. Only a scar is left where the building held its True Chicago corner for over one hundred years. I shed a tear, and from here on out I will look at that dirt pile and play the contours of that building and the memory of that building I my head. And reimagine over and over what it was like when it was there. And how the space felt when it took that corner. </div><div> But let it be said that I'm ok and I'm at peace, because I care and will fight more for people, their cultural preservation, their memory, over a building's preservation. It's important for me to make this statement because I have to say it to believe it, this is a fresh conviction. I do love and grieve the loss of things that have endured the test of time. I hate the loss of a life, a people group, a culture, a history, a building, a sacred place, an unspoiled space, a tree. All in that order. I need to say this to believe it and to order my priorities correctly. I think all of us preservationists are just basically torn down human beings. </div><div><br></div><div>http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/news-and-events/2015/07/14/early-20th-century-chicago-tied-house-or-standard-brewery-saloon-demolished/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>http://chicagopatterns.com/demolition-imminent-for-former-standard-brewery-tied-house/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-48437224891462498572015-07-11T15:55:00.001-05:002015-07-11T15:55:58.245-05:00Every Single Word Spoken<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I like this page because it reminds me what kind of world I am used to seeing and the perspectives I'm used to hearing through the movies. The page is called Every Word Spoken and it edits popular movies to the lines spoken by every person of color in that movie. Some come out to 7 seconds. I need to seek out films that reflects a social existence I want to see. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">http://everysinglewordspoken.tumblr.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkG0QrysGfyCFHmMQx6cPJDZ2HT6BsRfKO6RkXWoVVIByJnNWDbV_bBVC-TXkXkoEQeoImMJv2w0m75WirPVqndmkWVp1kT-O-Ls537j-WOavFV-iIYMJsmWzyB2eS4MVOihekBsYcs8/s640/blogger-image-1719832318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkG0QrysGfyCFHmMQx6cPJDZ2HT6BsRfKO6RkXWoVVIByJnNWDbV_bBVC-TXkXkoEQeoImMJv2w0m75WirPVqndmkWVp1kT-O-Ls537j-WOavFV-iIYMJsmWzyB2eS4MVOihekBsYcs8/s640/blogger-image-1719832318.jpg"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-9276932903842640312014-06-20T08:51:00.001-05:002014-06-20T20:31:09.016-05:00WOW<h1 style="margin: 0px; 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I especially wanted to know how many of the store owner are long-term residents and how many of them think about long-term implications on residents. I was saddened by the article and this woman's attitude.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709142305787993"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709142305787993&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBiKfuD9M35eAY6&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709142305787993&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBiKfuD9M35eAY6&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709142305787993&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709142305787993&delete_comment_fbid=709142305787993&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQDGPZx-Uac4W1of&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709142305787993&delete_comment_fbid=709142305787993&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQDGPZx-Uac4W1of&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402940128,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="239">Jun 16 at 12:35pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment _51s voice aclb" data-store="{"editCommentURI":"\/comment\/edit\/?ctoken=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63_709151552453735&redirect=https\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fm.facebook.com\u00252Fstory.php\u00253Fstory_fbid\u00253D709134732455417\u002526id\u00253D100000766913640\u002526refid\u00253D17\u002526__m_async_page__\u002526__ajax__\u00253Dtrue\u002526__cached__\u002526m_sess&div=709151552453735&show_threaded&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&gfid=AQCWSZHe8SIvuk5x","deleteCommentURI":"\/ufi\/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709151552453735&delete_comment_fbid=709151552453735&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&snowflake&gfid=AQDkUnQqvo_EtH7t","token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709151552453735"}" id="709151552453735" data-sigil="comment comment-metadata marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="North Avenue Pulaski Road" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/t1.0-1/c31.31.387.387/s160x160/536859_582864811749077_1571765092_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">North Avenue Pulaski Road</strong></a><br>"Authenticity is nearly always used as a lever of cultural power for a group to claim space and take it away from others without direct confrontation, with the help of the state and elected officials and the persuasion of the media and consumer culture. " - Sharon Zukin <a class="_5ayv" href="https://m.facebook.com/hashtag/procojoemoreno?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5aw4">#</span><span class="_5ayu">procojoemoreno</span></a><a class="_5ayv" href="https://m.facebook.com/hashtag/dnainfo?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5aw4">#</span><span class="_5ayu">DNAinfo</span></a> <a class="_5ayv" href="https://m.facebook.com/messages/read/?tid=mid.1403271795080%3A37baadd01cb3616008&_rdr#!/hashtag/wowdistrict?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5aw4">#</span><span class="_5ayu">WOWdistrict</span></a></span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709151552453735"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709151552453735&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBkr4GdVNLLs9kS&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709151552453735&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBkr4GdVNLLs9kS&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709151552453735&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_more" href="https://m.facebook.com/messages/read/?tid=mid.1403271795080%3A37baadd01cb3616008&_rdr#" data-sigil="comment-flyout-context" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none;">More</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402941327,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="240">Jun 16 at 12:55pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709156459119911"}" id="709156459119911" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Deborah Baldwin" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c27.0.160.160/p160x160/10374888_10154279844290721_6080120813515282006_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Deborah Baldwin</strong></a><br>You would think you would be happy that people have come to rent and open businesses in an area that needed it. Good for them wanting to make it a clean, safe, thriving area that brings in tax revenue for the area. Input from the community to change things you say? Was there any input when all the changes occurred in the late 60's and early 70's? Stop hating on changes and accept it. It is happening whether you like it or not.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709156459119911"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709156459119911&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQAnic1FRx-z122c&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709156459119911&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQAnic1FRx-z122c&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709156459119911&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>6</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709156459119911&delete_comment_fbid=709156459119911&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCNdiLdQT9XhHQc&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709156459119911&delete_comment_fbid=709156459119911&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCNdiLdQT9XhHQc&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402942143,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="241">Jun 16 at 1:09pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709167065785517"}" id="709167065785517" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/11nomee?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Nohemi Moran" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c1.0.160.160/p160x160/1463125_10152112121311584_1796853481_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/11nomee?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Nohemi Moran</strong></a><br>Why can't it just be a better neighborhood, for the sake of being a better neighborhood, you do that by including the people that also live within it. Does it need a new name? <br>"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709167065785517"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709167065785517&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCSv8cW9ZTuvcER&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709167065785517&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCSv8cW9ZTuvcER&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709167065785517&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/t1.0-1/c115.34.422.422/s160x160/310681_10150364746494631_1943847509_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/john.roeser.3?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">John Roeser</strong></a><br>I understand the desire of these shop owners to "rebrand" the area. I know as a business owner and landlord how many people have dismissed me for being "west of western". Personally I find it an insult to our community. We, Humboldt Park" community residents and businesses have gotten a bad rap since a riot 35 years ago that was primarily started by an ineffectual new mayor and temporary police chief and their inept handling of a minor situation. Get over it media!!! How many times has something good happend at Armitage and Kedzie and the media refers to it as Logan Square but if something bad happens at Palmer and Kedzie it's Humboldt Park. Even without actual data I would believe that the "one on one" crime rate in HP is less than that in LS, BT and WP. I see/<wbr><span class="word_break"></span>hear people talking about "gentrification". I'm quite aware of the definition and the often economic development and lower crime rates that accompany gentrification.<wbr><span class="word_break"></span> I am also aware that some people may be displaced by higher rents but in a 3-4% mortgage world no homeowners should be displaced by higher taxes, they should be reaping the rewards of increased property values. Oddly enough when you look at the census data the Puerto Rican population of Humboldt Park between 1990 and 2000 it declined by 23% while the non hispanic white population also declined by 20%. The Mexican population however increased by 40%, ergo our community is being gentrified by the Mexican population? I don't ever sense that this is the belief of many commentors. As you know my business has been here for over 100 years and although that represents 4 generations of Humboldt Park residents ( my son currently lives here) we are actually 5th generation community residents as my grandmother was born on Crystal to her parents who were here prior to 1900. You don't have to leave!! Humboldt Park is a transient neighborhood and has been for 100 years. Sorry for the digression and back to topic. If a change in name can help change the perception and attitude about/towards our community I can not be against it. If new shops open and hire from the neighborhood that cqn only be a good thing. We need to be accepting of change and work to better our community for our children and their families. A robust business strip offering more employment and an occupied clean look should benifit almost everyone in the community. We all need to just "stay" and work together to better the lives of all HP residents.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709201289115428"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709201289115428&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQClwvzaixzj-ZsW&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709201289115428&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQClwvzaixzj-ZsW&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709201289115428&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>18</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709201289115428&delete_comment_fbid=709201289115428&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQDwpOS5M9vx4d3o&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709201289115428&delete_comment_fbid=709201289115428&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQDwpOS5M9vx4d3o&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402947724,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="244">Jun 16 at 2:42pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment _51s voice aclb" data-store="{"editCommentURI":"\/comment\/edit\/?ctoken=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63_709205592448331&redirect=https\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fm.facebook.com\u00252Fstory.php\u00253Fstory_fbid\u00253D709134732455417\u002526id\u00253D100000766913640\u002526refid\u00253D17\u002526__m_async_page__\u002526__ajax__\u00253Dtrue\u002526__cached__\u002526m_sess&div=709205592448331&show_threaded&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&gfid=AQByNrJvinWBRfcW","deleteCommentURI":"\/ufi\/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709205592448331&delete_comment_fbid=709205592448331&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBEiD74eIxcUSSZ","token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709205592448331"}" id="709205592448331" data-sigil="comment comment-metadata marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="North Avenue Pulaski Road" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/t1.0-1/c31.31.387.387/s160x160/536859_582864811749077_1571765092_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">North Avenue Pulaski Road</strong></a><br>Thanks John for your wisdom. Your family and business never left the community. What I see with new businesses is an arrogance and unwillingness to engage longtime residents and businesses. What your business and legacy has been one of humility, and that goes a long way with a community. When residents and businesses started leaving and the neighborhood became more Puerto Rican, I know Roesers adapted to the change. In fact you traveled to Puerto Rico and learned to bake pastries that were important to the changing community. There is much to be learned from your model of doing business.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709205592448331"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709205592448331&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCBLthJxLLVzBBM&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709205592448331&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCBLthJxLLVzBBM&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709205592448331&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>7</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_more" href="https://m.facebook.com/messages/read/?tid=mid.1403271795080%3A37baadd01cb3616008&_rdr#" data-sigil="comment-flyout-context" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none;">More</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402948418,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="245">Jun 16 at 2:53pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709207602448130"}" id="709207602448130" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/john.roeser.3?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="John Roeser" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/t1.0-1/c115.34.422.422/s160x160/310681_10150364746494631_1943847509_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/john.roeser.3?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">John Roeser</strong></a><br>Thank you for the kind words. How do we get the word out about how "accepting" our community is? How we have always embraced diversity? There is actually a few of us that have entertained the idea of creating a "North Ave Chamber". The NPACC has gotten so large it is difficult for Pete to handle its expansive area. We were thinking from Western to Lawndale. Jus trying to fill vacancies, bring jobs and change the perception of our Humboldt Park!!</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709207602448130"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709207602448130&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQDU5wQ70t4ddbwH&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709207602448130&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQDU5wQ70t4ddbwH&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709207602448130&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>6</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709207602448130&delete_comment_fbid=709207602448130&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQC860esIylWiz-p&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709207602448130&delete_comment_fbid=709207602448130&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQC860esIylWiz-p&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402948829,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="246">Jun 16 at 3:00pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709210795781144"}" id="709210795781144" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2416475&refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Sandra Van Opstal" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpa1/t1.0-1/c37.0.160.160/p160x160/10390121_10100953579590675_1461135385865126540_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2416475&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Sandra Van Opstal</strong></a><br>That would be awesome if the new business owners hired from within the community--I have not seen that yet in any of the new business that came to Logan or Humboldt. John you should offer a class cause I know you all do that well.Stopped in for many red velvet cupcakes <i class="img sp_kTlIrRseBr1 sx_2ccb4f" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yd/r/xIse_y05VPV.png); background-size: 312px 159px; height: 16px; width: 16px; -webkit-user-select: none; background-position: -68px -136px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709210795781144"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709210795781144&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQDmKrXueIxCE5jE&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709210795781144&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQDmKrXueIxCE5jE&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709210795781144&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709210795781144&delete_comment_fbid=709210795781144&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCQsfoE8gx6AHM7&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709210795781144&delete_comment_fbid=709210795781144&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCQsfoE8gx6AHM7&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402949447,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="247">Jun 16 at 3:10pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709212909114266"}" id="709212909114266" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/TheNotoriousAnnieP?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Annie Nibs Passanisi" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpa1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10455361_10100798252512847_2022444844647401531_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/TheNotoriousAnnieP?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Annie Nibs Passanisi</strong></a><br>Hi everybody! I represent <a href="https://m.facebook.com/wearepolymathic?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Polymathic</a>and we're proud to call 2423 W. North Ave home. We are saddened by the ideas listed here that we do not wish to include our neighbors or that we are trying to "fix" the neighborhood to our liking. Since moving in in early March, I have tried to find ways to get to know the community (other than my amazing WOW neighbors) and have been unsuccessful - especially with reaching the Puerto Rican community. I would be so grateful for any advice on events to attend or contacts to reach out to to help me bridge the gap. You seem like a great place to start, Mr. Roeser! (Can I buy you lunch sometime and pick your brain?) As for trying to fix the neighborhood, we love Humboldt or we wouldn't have chosen to settle down here. It's really that simple. We're just hoping to provide a great space for artists and technologists in the community (and a darn cheap event space). We're not trying to ruffle any feathers. Thanks for you input on the questions above. We're excited to be great neighbors and do the community proud.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709212909114266"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709212909114266&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQD3XyoqzavVNoB-&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709212909114266&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQD3XyoqzavVNoB-&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709212909114266&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>5</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709212909114266&delete_comment_fbid=709212909114266&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCERehlvGfiswqn&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709212909114266&delete_comment_fbid=709212909114266&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCERehlvGfiswqn&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402949904,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="248">Jun 16 at 3:18pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709273939108163"}" id="709273939108163" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=643308223&refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Jesse Mumm" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-1/c42.42.525.525/s160x160/420112_10150508742708224_1440826441_n.jpg?oh=86eb385fe753bf77b13b24ceb71b0c47&oe=54279B56&__gda__=1410072858_4ac2efd4357bdf1d4d63e1ebf5a64f7c); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=643308223&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Jesse Mumm</strong></a><br>If you move into a community and the first thing you do is try to rebrand it, what kind of message do you think you are sending to the people you want to "reach"? How many local, predecessor residents have been hired by the six businesses mentioned in the article? McDaniel openly proclaims the desire to have what Lincoln Park and Andersonville have. So why not go there? I am astounded that people can claim they want "community" but do not go first to speak with the organizers of one of the most organized communities in the country. It already has a name. The name is Humboldt Park.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709273939108163"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709273939108163&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQArUQ9yBLar9vw0&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709273939108163&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQArUQ9yBLar9vw0&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709273939108163&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>8</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709273939108163&delete_comment_fbid=709273939108163&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQACA_HQF4xqp7DZ&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709273939108163&delete_comment_fbid=709273939108163&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQACA_HQF4xqp7DZ&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402962317,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="249">Jun 16 at 6:45pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709277622441128"}" id="709277622441128" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/TheNotoriousAnnieP?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Annie Nibs Passanisi" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpa1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10455361_10100798252512847_2022444844647401531_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/TheNotoriousAnnieP?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Annie Nibs Passanisi</strong></a><br>Lynne has been in the community for about a decade, but I see your point, Jesse. Remember, we aren't trying to rename the neighborhood (no West Wicker-ing here!). It's only a district. The Wow District OF Humboldt Park.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709277622441128"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709277622441128&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCF2iaHDEM3-PE4&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709277622441128&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCF2iaHDEM3-PE4&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709277622441128&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709277622441128&delete_comment_fbid=709277622441128&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBnvPd9QpICTZF3&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709277622441128&delete_comment_fbid=709277622441128&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBnvPd9QpICTZF3&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402963180,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="250">Jun 16 at 6:59pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment _51s voice aclb" data-store="{"editCommentURI":"\/comment\/edit\/?ctoken=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63_709318605770363&redirect=https\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fm.facebook.com\u00252Fstory.php\u00253Fstory_fbid\u00253D709134732455417\u002526id\u00253D100000766913640\u002526refid\u00253D17\u002526__m_async_page__\u002526__ajax__\u00253Dtrue\u002526__cached__\u002526m_sess&div=709318605770363&show_threaded&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&gfid=AQC6AdQsHboToZYf","deleteCommentURI":"\/ufi\/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709318605770363&delete_comment_fbid=709318605770363&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640\u00253A709134732455417\u00253A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBfGMtc319RibVV","token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709318605770363"}" id="709318605770363" data-sigil="comment comment-metadata marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="North Avenue Pulaski Road" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/t1.0-1/c31.31.387.387/s160x160/536859_582864811749077_1571765092_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/northavenue.pulaskiroad?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">North Avenue Pulaski Road</strong></a><br>This will be hard for you and the twenty businesses to do, but it is the right thing to do; Stop, just stop. Don't claim the space as a district of Humboldt Park, don't spend. $15,000 to put up benches , signs, etc. Cease planning, don't continue to fall deep into the gentrification narrative. Wait. Do you want to do this right, in such a contested space? Flip the script by regrouping your cohort of friends and businesses and take time to listen. Going forward cannot look like what is dreamed in the article. Meet with Mr. Roeser, meet with those opposed to the branding, reach out to Jose E. Lopez at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center to understand the community history. He will tell you history of the North Avenue business district. He will show you how rebranding and gentrification has already deeply affected the community. Ask him for advice. Talk to the DSBDA. Learn how an organization like West Town Bikes use to be where An Orange Moon was, and became accepted and fully integrated into the Puerto Rican business community, they did not follow the gentrification narrative. Don't not go forward until your group has made this right. Trust us you will not regret it, and history will bode well for you and the businesses west of Western, along North Avenue.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709318605770363"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709318605770363&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQAiOFDN4Nf5zso7&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709318605770363&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQAiOFDN4Nf5zso7&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709318605770363&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_more" href="https://m.facebook.com/messages/read/?tid=mid.1403271795080%3A37baadd01cb3616008&_rdr#" data-sigil="comment-flyout-context" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none;">More</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402973536,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="251">Jun 16 at 9:52pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709320592436831"}" id="709320592436831" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Deborah Baldwin" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c27.0.160.160/p160x160/10374888_10154279844290721_6080120813515282006_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Deborah Baldwin</strong></a><br>Yeah, just run a trashy business and not care about the community. Do not bother to fix up the area in anyway, keep it down like it has been for so long. Thats the way they want it.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709320592436831"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709320592436831&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCEgcKBmb-R7pMz&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709320592436831&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCEgcKBmb-R7pMz&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709320592436831&delete_comment_fbid=709320592436831&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCKRbg0LRA1Bewc&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709320592436831&delete_comment_fbid=709320592436831&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCKRbg0LRA1Bewc&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1402974152,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="252">Jun 16 at 10:02pm</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709548169080740"}" id="709548169080740" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Juanita Irizarry" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10411792_10152494014760915_8171169820134869041_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Juanita Irizarry</strong></a><br>Deborah Baldwin, I've seen your comments here before. The 60s and 70s narrative you suggest ignores the redlining and blockbusting and arson fires that destroyed our community. It did not just decline because if the individual acts of poorer and brown people who moved in. Instituional racism in the form of bank policies decided not to provide loans because of who was moving in.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="sec cmt_edited" href="https://m.facebook.com/comment/history/?ctoken=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63_709548169080740&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Edited</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709548169080740"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709548169080740&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQC848qBS8srRHmb&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709548169080740&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQC848qBS8srRHmb&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709548169080740&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>3</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709548169080740&delete_comment_fbid=709548169080740&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQAXDJDxJonb77bP&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709548169080740&delete_comment_fbid=709548169080740&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQAXDJDxJonb77bP&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> ·</span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403007949,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="253">Jun 17 at 7:25am</abbr></span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709549525747271"}" id="709549525747271" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Deborah Baldwin" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c27.0.160.160/p160x160/10374888_10154279844290721_6080120813515282006_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Deborah Baldwin</strong></a><br>I am glad you did. Then you know I lived there the majority of my life and have lived through all the changes and have seen first had all the destruction of a beautiful area that I was always proud of. A once vibrant, safe community turned into an almost ghetto of filth, gangs, drugs, prostitution. It can not be sugar coated. And it sickens me that now that someone wants to fix it up and attempt to make it what it once was that it has become nothing more than keeping the white man out, the same white people that lost so much because of the destruction.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709549525747271"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709549525747271&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBLNGU0N1FQFeuV&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709549525747271&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBLNGU0N1FQFeuV&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709549525747271&delete_comment_fbid=709549525747271&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBwhzUtLik3e6p4&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709549525747271&delete_comment_fbid=709549525747271&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBwhzUtLik3e6p4&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403008193,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="254">Jun 17 at 7:29am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709611895741034"}" id="709611895741034" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Juanita Irizarry" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10411792_10152494014760915_8171169820134869041_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Juanita Irizarry</strong></a><br>I have lived here all my life, too. We all lost so much because of the destruction. But the people who want to come in now are not the same people who were here before, and they don't want to make it what it once was. It will be much more high end than it was back in the days you remember, and only those with a lot of money will be able to afford what's coming, if you look west to Lincoln Park and Wicker Park. That's what's coming, and very few of us, white or Latino or whatever, will be here to enjoy it once it completely takes over.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709611895741034"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709611895741034&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBmvHL9AdIOl_sh&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709611895741034&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBmvHL9AdIOl_sh&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Likes" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709611895741034&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>2</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709611895741034&delete_comment_fbid=709611895741034&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCP72EioOGSW_SF&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709611895741034&delete_comment_fbid=709611895741034&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCP72EioOGSW_SF&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403009655,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="255">Jun 17 at 7:54am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709623662406524"}" id="709623662406524" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Deborah Baldwin" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c27.0.160.160/p160x160/10374888_10154279844290721_6080120813515282006_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Deborah Baldwin</strong></a><br>And very few of the people who were there before the destruction stayed because of the lose of property value etc. Changes happen, and it will happen regardless of what anyone does. Remember, the whites with money can not buy if the Hispanics do not sell to them.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709623662406524"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709623662406524&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQA01FTpMxBc5rnc&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709623662406524&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQA01FTpMxBc5rnc&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709623662406524&delete_comment_fbid=709623662406524&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQD_4DxSTYhQ-4Y9&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709623662406524&delete_comment_fbid=709623662406524&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQD_4DxSTYhQ-4Y9&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403012058,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="256">Jun 17 at 8:34am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709647202404170"}" id="709647202404170" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Juanita Irizarry" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10411792_10152494014760915_8171169820134869041_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Juanita Irizarry</strong></a><br>Deborah: The era you speak of was one in which property values plummeted because banks would not provide mortgages or home improvement loans because of their racist policies. It was a self-fulfilling<wbr><span class="word_break"></span>prophecy: because banks believed property values would go down because Latinos were moving in, they did go down: because no one could sell their property or fix it up. So owners burned their homes down and got their fire insurance payment to get their money out. Or, the white homeowners moved out and just rented their buildings; some of them were slumlords--they<wbr><span class="word_break"></span> didn't maintain the buildings. And then the brown poor people in the neighborhood got blamed for the condition of the buildings--rath<wbr><span class="word_break"></span>er than the owners. That is the actual history of the neighborhood.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709647202404170"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709647202404170&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCR1gxIDDnLvQET&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709647202404170&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCR1gxIDDnLvQET&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Like" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709647202404170&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>1</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709647202404170&delete_comment_fbid=709647202404170&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBNnONocyCy0INw&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709647202404170&delete_comment_fbid=709647202404170&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBNnONocyCy0INw&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403013965,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="257">Tuesday at 9:06am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709647605737463"}" id="709647605737463" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Juanita Irizarry" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/p160x160/10411792_10152494014760915_8171169820134869041_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/juanita.irizarry1?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Juanita Irizarry</strong></a><br>Deborah: Also, assuming that the people who currently are the owners of buildings in your neighborhood are Latinos may not be on target. Many of the people around you are renters, not the owners of the buildings.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709647605737463"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709647605737463&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCsrQ_aIh-hKzh3&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709647605737463&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQCsrQ_aIh-hKzh3&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709647605737463&delete_comment_fbid=709647605737463&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCxzqh537Asun6M&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709647605737463&delete_comment_fbid=709647605737463&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCxzqh537Asun6M&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403014041,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="258">Tuesday at 9:07am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709707425731481"}" id="709707425731481" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Deborah Baldwin" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/t1.0-1/c27.0.160.160/p160x160/10374888_10154279844290721_6080120813515282006_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/baldwindeb?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Deborah Baldwin</strong></a><br>You know that story is not correct, I wont argue with you about it but that is not how it went. As I said before, too many poorer people came in and had no respect for other peoples property, they would destroy it , take advantage of not being able to be evicted,left landlords with little money to fix the places back up since rent was so cheap to begin with. Owners sell, renters do not.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709707425731481"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709707425731481&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBSGD4T7lRDAkkA&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?like_comment_id=709707425731481&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBSGD4T7lRDAkkA&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Like</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709707425731481&delete_comment_fbid=709707425731481&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCWotqzjC2TLHHt&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709707425731481&delete_comment_fbid=709707425731481&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQCWotqzjC2TLHHt&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403016937,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="259">Tuesday at 9:55am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_709740145728209"}" id="709740145728209" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/eleazar.vazquez.9231?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Eleazar Vazquez" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/t1.0-1/p160x160/1979893_10101235910382809_2063703133_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/eleazar.vazquez.9231?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Eleazar Vazquez</strong></a><br>McDaniel summarized this best -- "I want community," she said. "Some people get it, and some don't, but I don't even give a damn if they get it or not." Not much of a community attitude there. Sounds more like she's creating her own business clique rather than a business community. She could learn a lot from Mr. Roeser.</span></font></div><div class="actions mfss fcg" style="margin-top: 4px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="async_cmt_like" id="like_709134732455417_709740145728209"><span class="cmt_like_def fcg"><a class="sec" href="https://m.facebook.com/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709740145728209&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBsLqAGwWrBwx2V&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/a/comment.php?unlike_comment_id=709740145728209&snowflake&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&gfid=AQBsLqAGwWrBwx2V&refid=52" data-ajaxify-class="async_cmt_like" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Unlike</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="nowrap" aria-label="Like" href="https://m.facebook.com/browse/likes/?id=709740145728209&refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><i class="likethumbicon img sp_Ex02IFujob8 sx_856075" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/aopwagkVpI9.png); background-size: 100px 431px; height: 9px; width: 10px; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 3px; background-position: -85px -413px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i>1</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><a class="sec cmt_delete" href="https://m.facebook.com/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709740145728209&delete_comment_fbid=709740145728209&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBNiBXCCW5Ebyys&refid=52" data-ajaxify-href="/ufi/confirm_delete.php?delete_comment_id=709740145728209&delete_comment_fbid=709740145728209&ft_ent_identifier=100000766913640%3A709134732455417%3A63&snowflake&gfid=AQBNiBXCCW5Ebyys&refid=52" data-sigil="ajaxify" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Delete</a><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><abbr data-store="{"time":1403021074,"short":false}" data-sigil="timestamp" data-store-id="260">Tuesday at 11:04am</abbr></span></div></div></div></div><div class="row ufiComment voice aclb" data-store="{"token":"100000766913640:709134732455417:63_710938102275080"}" id="710938102275080" data-sigil="comment marea" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; padding: 7px; position: relative;"><div class="ib" style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1;"><a class="darkTouch l" href="https://m.facebook.com/libbiecupcakerainbows?refid=52" aria-hidden="true" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><i class="img profpic" aria-label="Libbie CupcakeRainbows" role="img" data-sigil="touchable" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-image: url(https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/t1.0-1/p160x160/318074_519564458088692_1501736165_n.jpg); background-size: 100%; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-background-size: 100%; width: 40px; height: 40px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></i></font></a><div class="c" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1;"><div class="msg mfsm"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="actor-link" href="https://m.facebook.com/libbiecupcakerainbows?refid=52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="actor">Libbie CupcakeRainbows</strong></a><br>This is one of the best fb comment threads I ever read in my entire life. 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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several years ago, transportation company Norfolk Southern initiated an expansion of its <a href="http://www.nscorp.com/nscintermodal/Intermodal/System_Info/Terminals/chicago_47.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">47th Street Terminal</a> by covertly buying property in the northeast corner of Englewood. Since the plans were publicized in September 2011, residents have been living on borrowed time, maintaining friendships and traditions while struggling with new problems in their vanishing community. This short is the first piece of <a href="http://57thandnormal.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a feature-length documentary</a> about the neighborhood and its confrontation with the pressures of contemporary transportation infrastructure.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-19634940243891233692014-04-23T00:07:00.003-05:002014-04-23T00:07:33.648-05:00Lessons From a Former Dope Dealer<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/22/poor_black_people_dont_work_lessons_of_a_former_dope_dealer/">http://www.salon.com/2014/04/22/poor_black_people_dont_work_lessons_of_a_former_dope_dealer/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-24377684336945641902013-11-29T18:42:00.000-06:002013-11-29T18:42:05.227-06:00Evil and GoodnessEvil is contagious, so be cautious; but so is goodness, so take heart.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-67920857073212624702013-11-29T17:52:00.001-06:002013-11-29T17:54:32.377-06:00Anno DominiHow does one deal with life after death? I don't mean passing onto the other side, I mean living again after your loved one dies. The best of our family came alive after my mom died. We were the most vulnerable and the closest we had been ever. The best of what we brought to the table as adult siblings and as relatives came about. But, when all the pomp and circumstance of the wake and funeral subsided, we went back to work, we went back to routines. I just checked my phone I realized I missed a call from my dad at 6:03, it's 11:21am now, I've got to go to bed I've got work tomorrow. I'll die if I don't get some sleep.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-42193348033763032952013-10-13T09:23:00.001-05:002013-10-13T09:23:31.573-05:00Growth<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by Langston Hughes</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Landlord, landlord,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My roof has sprung a leak.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't you 'member I told you about it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Way last week?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Landlord, landlord,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These steps is broken down.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vvlhen you come up yourself</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's a wonder you don't fall down.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ten Bucks you say I owe you?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ten Bucks you say is due?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, that's Ten Bucks more'n I'l pay you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till you fix this house up new.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What? You gonna get eviction orders?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You gonna cut off my heat?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You gonna take my furniture and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Throw it in the street?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Um-huh! You talking high and mighty.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Talk on-till you get through.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You ain't gonn a be able to say a word</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I land my fist on you.</span><br />
<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police! Police!</i><br />
<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come and get this man!</i><br />
<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He's trying to ruin the government</i><br />
<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And overturn the land!</i><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Copper's whistle!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Patrol bell!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arrest.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Precinct Station.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iron cell.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Headlines in press:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MAN THREATENS LANDLORD</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">TENANT HELD NO BAIL</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">JUDGE GIVES NEGRO 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-66154393993616820732013-09-01T23:22:00.004-05:002013-09-01T23:24:59.471-05:00"Cuz He's Black" <br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So i tried to create a viral post on a website, urging local decision makers in the old neighborhood to chose my idea for a naming a new development. its guerilla community organizing, because i couldnt stand by and let some politicians hash it out and decide on a politically connected name that carries no weight or reference to the community. So i petitioned the power brokers online. this could work or work against me, either way I did it and have no regrets. "Thirty-eight years after a 1975 fire burned down the old Woolworths and almost a city block on the southwest corner of North and Pulaski, a new affordable housing development is coming to the area. Hispanic Housing Developement Corporation and Tropic Construction have broken ground on the $19 million dollar development that will include 72 apartments for local residents ages 55-80 who earn less than 80% of the area's median income to stay and continue living affordably in their community. This development has come together after residents, our local chamber of commerce, and our alderman have worked to keep the project alive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Currently, the development is called North and Pulaski Seniors Housing, but we are asking that Hispanic Housing consider <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El Pionero Senior Apartments at North and Pulaski</strong>. Hispanic Housing and other Humboldt Park affordable housing organizations, like Bickerdike, have a history of meaningfully naming their projects for significant community members, community intersections, and community struggles. Consider Theresa Roldan Apartments on Paseo Boriqua, North and Talman Elderly Apartments, Zapata Apartments, and La Estancia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El Pionero </strong>is in reference to the Pioneer Trust and Savings bank across the street. The bank was built in 1924 and in the years that followed, it solely financed all of the development and housing that makes up much of the North and Pulaski area of Humboldt Park. It is one of only a few neighborhood banks that survived the Great Depression. Standing at five stories, an landmark above all other neighborhood structures, it's architecture was meant to convey security and stability. Similarly, the seniors development will take the corner and stand at five stories; the building will symbolize housing security and stability for our long time residents. The name <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El Pionero</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Senior Apartments at North and Pulaski</strong> references and gives meaningful respect to our section of Humboldt Park, and the history and culture of our residents who will call the building home. We urge Hispanic Housing's Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, Alderman Reboyras (30th), and Alderman Maldonado to pick <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El Pionero</strong> as they collectively choose an honorable name for this building. We look forward to a community meeting in the near future; the neighborhood is excited and eagerly watching and waiting for the completion of this development. "</span></div>
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This is my eulogy for my mom:<br />
<br />
So it's hard to put 36 years of a relationship into
a few minutes, and it may be more than a few minutes, but I'll try. The truth
is that my mom's relationship with me was formed way before my birth, because how
can you raise a child and impart things unto them unless you have a life history
before that child is born. My mom was born in 1949 in Santurce, Puerto Rico to
her parents Israel and Edmelinda. They were with each other, then they divorced,
then years later got back together, then divorced. Both parents got married to
others, then got divorced, then married others. My mom always lived with her
mom and her sister Enilda through this. My mother would always say she had a
hard childhood, especially any time we ever expressed how hard our life was
living under our parent’s roof. She was put into many situations and had to
take on burdens and responsibilities not meant for a child. She had to grow up
early, act like an adult, and be a rock to people who were adults and could
arguably be considered children in with their emotions and actions.</div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most rocks
are hard, at least their outer layer. My mom grew into adulthood to be tough
and world hardened, but always compassionate and deeply loving inside. In her
twenties, she began working in San Juan while living and taking care of her mom
who was very controlling. The story goes one day she was cruising the strip her
cousins, the area of San Juan where sailors hang out. That day everyone hooked
up with a crew a sailors on leave, my mom connected with a guy from Chicago.
They hung out for three days. He went back to Chicago, they wrote letters back
and forth for a few months, and then my dad popped the question, “Will you marry
me? </div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
What was my mom to do, she was taking care of her
mom, she had lived her whole life in Puerto Rico, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her life was there. She knew her mom would not
let her go, so she went to her loving abuela, Paquita, who gave her the advice
that would set in motion her family," If you don't leave now, you will
never leave." So, my mom took the chance, left everything she knew behind,
and came to<br />
Chicago, to marry essentially, a stranger, I mean, how can you know
someone through three days and a couple letters, but she did. By the way,
my dad didn't tell his parents that he was thinking of<br />
marriage; I think
he was already getting set up into some arranged marriage by his parents. In
the first days of her arrival my dad introduce my mom to his Eastern
European parents, they were not too happy that he brought home a Puerto Rican
woman, and I’m being nice with my version of the story, they predicted
that the marriage would fail. Nice introduction to this new life. My dad wanted
to chicken out and just see where the relationship went. But my mom looked him
dead in the eye and<br />
said, "I left everything for you, I'm not going back
with egg on my face, we are getting married" and so they went to down
city hall, my aunt and her husband flew in to serve as witnesses, and they got
married June 14th, 1975.</div>
My mom's statement could
have been perceived as a threat, no doubt knowing my mom it may have been, but
I choose to look at it as the defining moment that thrust this family into
being. A defining decision moment between two people that signaled how she
would fight tooth and nail to will a family together, that family was number 1,
and like a bulldog never let her family go. Her and my dad forged their bond
early on through persistence, as husband in wife through fights, swearing,<br />
doggedly working through issues such as vastly different backgrounds, moral and
cultural.<br />
Sometimes you commit to something and fall in love later, I'm not
embarrassed and neither was she<br />
to say that, it worked for them, my dad was
deeply committed to my mom and loved her madly. My mom loved him with an
unfiltered and tough love too. They were together 38 years and their love and
commitment has inspired me and created the convictions I have about love,
marriage, fidelity, and what it means to have a true life partner.<br />
Falling in love may have come later
for their relationship, but my mom gave pure and received the pure love
that she desired from her children, all three. I am the firstborn of all of
Elfrida and Bill's kids. My mom loved me til the day she did. An abiding love
that was deep in soul. My mother always protected me and fought on behalf of
me, she believed in me and saw things in me I couldn't believe about myself as
a youth. She showed me off and was proud of my achievements. She put a lot of
stock into who I would be in the future and always called me a her good boy; I
think all of her aspirations and expectations for me growing up were meant as
someone who would be different than all the men who had hurt her in her life. I
believed her and my life is a testament to trying to give her<br />
that gift and her
dream fulfilled. She could convince a mountain to move, and in my love for her
I<br />
wanted to live up to and climb beyond her expectations. As hard as she could be, as
rough as her exterior, mannerisms, or words could be, she was a romantic, she
fought for the underdog, she carried the weight of her family, she wanted
everyone to be the person God created them to be regardless of the what the
world shaped them to be, she loved giving gifts, she was very political, but
most importantly she loved God unabashedly. She couldn't move the mountains
that life put in front of without that simple faith like a mustard seed. I will
miss this woman. I love you mom and will forever carry you and your legacy in my character and my heart.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-83369373702385886332013-07-27T02:08:00.002-05:002013-08-23T10:14:20.964-05:00My identityIt is said that in other places people ask you where you are from, but in Chicago people ask what are you? That question is intended to size people up and to compartmentalize you into neat, formal, understandible racial categories; its easier that way, but when you cant answer that question so clearcut, you won't quite fit in, ever. That one question and the working around it's boundaries has formed my identity. It's hard to conflate my life into three or four experiences or events that helped my identity formation but I'll try.<br />
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I will start with my early years, my early identity was shaped by the family and where I grew up. I was born and raised in Chicago. Born as William Smiljanich II, or Smilyanich if you want to say the non Americanized way. Born to a Ukrainian/possible also, Scottish man, and Puerto Rican woman, and given a Serbian surname even though there is no Serbian blood in me, and with Serbian being white, i don't get much privilege with a last name like that. My parents knew each other for only three days before my mom left everything behind in Puerto Rico and took a chance on marrying a stranger in Chicago. My Ukrainian grandmother and Serbian grandfather did not welcome my mom into the family by mere fact that she was a Puerto Rican, who they judged as dirty and lazy people. My parents began a life together as an escape from their families and their dominance; they began their own family by rejecting or compromising their cultural upbringing (i never ate a pierogi and I do not speak spanish), as a way to survive as two totally different people. While others had the pleasure of distinct culture, distinct languages, and distinct cultural expectations, my parents left most of their cultural upbringing behind and I was left to guess, infer, and make up my own identity. In one way this was freedom, in another way this was a burden, but in my early years i <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">became adept at being able to navigate between, within, and around various cultures to avoid looking stupid or feeling stupid. i </span>don't think I ever asked my parents who I was until 6th grade.<br />
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By the time I was in 6th grade, the not knowing who i was began creating problems for me, kids started making clearer distinctions for me, based on racial categories they already knew they fit into. They would ask me what i was and I couldn't answer. One day I asked my dad, but he replied, why do you care? Tell em your white. i dont think i asked my mom, but since she spoke Spanish to my aunt, I assumed i was Spanish. I distinctly remember riding the school bus and telling a kid that I was something like Russian, because my last name sounded Russian. I also remember leaving out the Spanish part because I was ashamed. I had felt that being Russian was somewhat better than someone who was Spanish, but that proved to be a false assumption after the kid called me a commie. I think I internalized some kind of shame about being of Puerto Rican decent because of the stereotypes and racist remarks my family had made about Latinos throughout my childhood.<br />
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When I got to high school, I had somehow come to this belief that as a teenager in Chicago, it wasn't cool to be called white. I was going to a school with kids from all races, classes, and places from across the city and world. In my mind it became clear that in order to relate to others I needed to embrace my "otherness". So I decided to explore my Puerto Rican roots. This proved short lived because of the micro aggressions on the part of some Puerto Ricans, the only ones who I felt could give me the credibility and acceptance I needed at that point in time. One day, was on the Addison bus, and a girl from my earth science class gets on with her friend. Her friend sits on a seat covered in rain water from an open window, i snickered, she turns around and says, "Shut the f#@& up, whiteboy!" I countered that I wasn't white, but Puerto Rican like her. Her friend said she knew me from class, that indeed, I was, half Puerto Rican. The girl counters, "Well, he don't look like no Puerto Rican". And so it was, over and over, I didn't look Puerto Rican, I wasn't Puerto Rican because I was half, I didn't speak Spanish, I didn't dress Puerto Rican. Soon enough I could never measure up to being Puerto Rican, so throughout high school and in college i found affinity with the misfits, with those who felt oppressed by and who rejected the rules and mores of their own culture, those that were raised in mixed families, those that were culture shocked in the dominant American society. And though I found solace in-between racial and cultural categories, I still wished i fit into those easy categories.<br />
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My last major identity forming experience began a year and a half ago. I had heard of African American studies, Latino Studies, and Asian American studies, but I wondered if there was such a<br />
thing as mixed studies, so I googled it, and sure enough there was such a thing. Finally, I thought, something that could speak to my experience in writing. On the website I found a list of experiences that people of mixed race/ethnicity live through, and I related to them. I found a bill of rights for people of mixed race/ethnicity, and it empowered me. I found books and I cried because they put words to feelings and emotions I experienced but didn't have vocabulary or language for. I also found a conference called Critical Mixed Race Studies at DePaul last November, i showed up to a breakout session for mixed Latinos and found people who validated my experience. This is a new<br />
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phase in my identity formation, but the one thing I have learned through my experiences is that my identity can be fluid. This has allowed me to accept myself better. My existence challenges the notion of monoracial categories. My identity points beyond race, yet does not work to undermine or forget historical injustices and pain caused by man made racial categories which are stupid, but still have real effects. My identity reveals a legacy of privilege I can more easily buy into, but within that identity I also have a legacy of not having access to privilege, making it easier for me to recognize the folly of buying into it. My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine. I do not expect to be told what I should consider myself, so today i will claim I'm a Chicagoan, a Puerto Rican, a Ukrainian American, a Ukrianorican, a Latino, a white Hispanic, a Latino of Mixed Ancestry, a multiethnic person, a both/and. The great thing about recognizing the fluidity of my cultural identity is that things can and will change. i am on a journey, just like all of you, to fully come to grips with who God created us as.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-68808539727608804312013-06-28T00:24:00.000-05:002013-06-28T00:24:22.393-05:0010 Year AnniversaryWell we made it. 10 years of marriage.<br />
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06/27/2003 Married<br />
08/04/2004 Hawaii; bought building on Keystone<br />
6/27/2005 Trip to Europe<br />
08/06/2006 Liam is born; grad school finished<br />
04/19/2007 Bill's 30th<br />
09/28/2007 Katie's 30th<br />
06/27/2008 5th Year Anniversary<br />
05/19/2009 Ava is born<br />
09/07/2010 Liam starts school<br />
09/30/2011 Bought home on Natchez<br />
08/26/2012 Katie goes back to work, both kids start Montessori<br />
06/27/2013 10 year anniversary<br />
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These are just highlights, I can't believe all we went through so much in the in between time, those little moments are what make this marriage. The day to day reality, good and bad, is what true love looks like. Never a dull moment, honey. I love you so much Katie.<br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">"Authenticity is nearly always used as a lever of cultural power for a group to claim space and take it away from others without direct confrontation, with the help of the state and elected officials and the persuasion of the media and consumer culture. </span><span style="background-color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: blue;">We can turn this lever in the direction of democracy, however, by creating new forms of public-private stewardship that give residents, workers, and small business owners, as well as buildings and districts, a right to put down roots and remain in place. This would strike a balance between a city's origins and its new beginnings; this would restore a city's soul."</span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-32894843933773027112013-06-11T14:28:00.005-05:002013-06-11T14:28:48.877-05:00Immigrants Remake the Built Environment of Inner Ring Suburbs<a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/as_we_remake_suburbs_should_th.html">http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/as_we_remake_suburbs_should_th.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-89380543811709380582013-06-11T00:38:00.002-05:002013-06-11T15:15:03.549-05:00Two books by ZukinA blog post from someoe else: <br />
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Sharon Zukin's Naked City and Landscapes of Power<br />
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><i>Landscapes of Power</i> </span>is the earlier of the two, and in it, <span style="background-color: blue;">Zukin argues that "landscape" is the key cultural product of post-postindustrial capitalism in America. In other words, as we transition from a Modern industrial production economy (and culture) to a Postmodern service and consumption-based economy (and culture), the landscape changes too. According to Zukin, landscapes are always characterized by a tension between abstract market forces, which want to globalize and homogenize everything, and local, place-based communities, who want to stay rooted where they are and not have to pick up and move every time the economy changes and they get laid off. Postmodern <span style="color: black;">landscapes are composed of liminal spaces that blend markets and places</span><span style="color: black;"> - so when you go to a museum, for instance, you <i>could</i> just walk in and look at the paintings, but they would really prefer it if you went to the IMAX, paid for a guided tour, and maybe picked up a few things at the gift shop, too. It's like the long arm of capitalism is penetrating further and further into every aspect of our lives.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><i>Landscapes of Power</i> is interesting, but <span style="background-color: blue;"><i>Naked City</i> </span>was much more fun to read. In the twenty years between the two books (1991 and 2010), Zukin's style has gotten more conversational; more importantly, though, the internet, reurbanization, the housing bubble, and 9/11 have all made the world a very different place from what it was in 1991, and she takes all of these developments into account. <span style="background-color: blue;">This time, urban spaces are still landscapes of power, and culture and the economy are still based on consumption instead of production. However, her focus now is not on the decline of modern industrial culture but on the rise of the "authentic city," a place characterized by a tension between old, historic, deep-rooted elements and new, creative, truly innovative forces. The book is comprised of six case studies, each a different place in New York city, that examine the meaning of "authentic" and its relationship to power.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: justify;">I really hate the uncritical use of the word "authentic," so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Zukin spends a good 30 pages theorizing it and that she's well aware that authenticity is socially constructed. The part I particularly like (aside from her liberal use of the word "hipster," hah) is <span style="background-color: blue;">her construction of authenticity as an elitist, consumption-based concept. Claiming to either <i>be</i> or <i>see</i> the authentic gives you a certain amount of power: you're the real deal, or you are worldly enough that you know it when you see it. But authenticity can only be perceived from the outside, by someone who has enough mobility and distance not just to discern between the real and the fakes, but to care about authenticity in the first place. </span> <span style="background-color: #f1c232; color: blue;">Hence, white gentrifiers moving into a poor black neighborhood might see their new home as an authentically gritty urban place, but the neighborhood's current residents, who are more concerned with getting their bills paid and taking care of themselves and their families, just see it as home. </span> <span style="background-color: blue;">The gentrifiers are consuming the experience of living there, while the current residents are simply inhabiting the place. </span> (I guess there's no particular reason why the black residents wouldn't seek out authentic experiences or places in some other form, but she doesn't go into that - one of the failings of the book.)</span></div>
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<span class="userContent">"What is a Godly relationship really supposed to look like across economic and racial differences? "</span><br />
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- Eugene ChoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-25460400348342026422013-02-15T11:59:00.000-06:002013-02-15T11:59:03.766-06:00TransformationOur own transformation makes us avenues of transformation in the city- Randy WhiteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-12091317117972774712013-02-05T16:20:00.001-06:002013-02-05T16:20:06.664-06:00EZ PAWN"Discussion and protest are foundations of democracy and they keep it vibrant and strong" -<em>Dave Stieber</em><br />
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Nice work Galewood. Keep up the fight, keep Democracy on the west side.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-78305922824409251602013-02-05T09:23:00.002-06:002013-02-05T09:29:17.465-06:00The Problem With Communicating About Place<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The problem about taking photos, blogging or using social media to highlight a place is that there is a great potential that reader will be compelled to visit it and experience it. My age group and younger live in a culture in which authenticity is highly sought after commodity and value. The overexposure and the mining of authentic places inevitably strips the place of authenticity. Our human nature is to share with others, as social beings, unfortunately it gets corrupted; do I call tourism a corruption? I guess, but then I indict myself.So do we share the Macchu Pichu, do we share Feng Du, do we share Sokotra, do we share Petra, do we share the sewers of Paris, do we share the favelas of Rio, do we share the ruins of Detroit, do we share footsteps of the French Provencal village of Menerbes, do we share the Italian hillside villages of Tuscany, do we share the nooks and crannies of our forgotten neighborhood? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670846939806876364.post-48761700362542161012013-01-06T17:29:00.000-06:002013-01-06T17:29:00.179-06:00Why Do We Move and Why Do We Live Where We Live? My old former neighbor came by last week and we got to talking about the old block and this block. I asked him how he perceived this place as he has spent the little time over here visiting me in the year I've lived here. He said, " Bill this place is a neighborhood where people move to get away from someplace."<br />
Research says Chicagoans move due to perceived disorder in their origin neighborhood, which leads to an outmigration to other <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">neighborhoods or suburbs where they don't find symbols of disorder. Research Seems to indicate that you don't choose your neighborhood, your neighborhood chooses you. Outmigrants tend towards homophily meaning they settle around others like them, others that do not want to be around disorder, which in my opinion, leads to tenuous communities with an underlying cancer festering. It doesn't lead to healthy relations between neighbors or a healthy situation when evidence of others shows up. It leads to places where people are on the defensive and barriers are put up in physical and emotional manefestations, how do we live in healthy communities in Chicago where we are not a lot of people that have moved from some place of perceived dysfunction? How do we get ourselves into a collective good place. How do we push against selfish neighborhoods, our fear of others, and our tendency towards homophily and move towards a zenophily? What would that neighborhood look like?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0