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Showing posts with label Marquette Park. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2017

What would we have thought some half century ago with building lit for MLK?

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I happened to be in downtown Chicago on Friday night, along Michigan Avenue to be exact, when I noticed the downtown buildings that like to ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

EXTRA: Will they let it go? Or, Ouch! Does it still hurt all these years later?

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Yes, I'm too cheap to send out individual King Day greeting cards. Although they do exist. Image provided by Greeting Card Universe . ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Those random moments of life

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I read stories such as the Sunday morning account of a shooting incident in the Marquette Park neighborhood caused by a driver who double-p...
Monday, January 17, 2011

King Day? Mayoral election will tell us more about state of our race relations

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Monday is the day we officially pay tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., who if he were still alive today would have turned 82 on Saturday. T...
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Gregory Tejeda
Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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