Forclosures? Fo' sho'

Foreclosures have been hitting our community very hard lately. Recent statistics show that just for the 1st half of this year there were a 52.6 foreclosure starts per square mile in our nieghborhood. If you think that is bad, we're just suffering only half as much as residents in West Englewood where there were on average, 111 foreclosure starts per square mile the first half of this year. This has become the American Nightmare for residents in Chicago and across our nation.

http://savetheamericandream.wordpress.com/

http://www.ntic-us.org/documents/FirstHalf2007Report.pdf

Parking in Chicago

On Friday, Kate picked me up from school after driving 5 hours in her car. She was driving in to the city while everyone else was driving out of the city. We made our way downtown to Reza's for Persian food and then to AMC River East to see the movie Juno. The great thing about parking downtown on the Friday before Christmas is that everyone has left out of town so, parking close to your destination is easy and free.
A true Chicagoan never pays for parking. Even when its the holidays, no self respecting Chicagoan should have to pay for parking, on the street or in a parking garage, in their own city. Paying for parking is reserved for someone from Schuamburg or a tourist from Indiana.
Additonally, how do you tell a tourist from a Chicagoan? A tourist or a suburbanite for that matter, has a clean windshield. What, you say? A windshield with at least 4 years worth of city stickers on the right side is a tell tale sign of a True Chicagoan.

My Block

This is the street where I live. More pictures and descriptions to come. Thanks 

Chicagoisms

I thought I might highlight some true Chicagoisms for my first post.
Check dis out:
http://members.aol.com/mistamoose/vocab.html
http://www.gapersblock.com/fuel/archives/chicagoisms/
http://www.suntimes.com/chicago/chicagopedia/index.html