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Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Has it really been a quarter century since the Great Chicago Flood of ’92?

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Twice in my life I have seen the streets of downtown Chicago completely deserted. Keep in mind I used to work an overnight shift for the now...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

I'm homeless! (Eh not really)

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I realize my predicament due to the heavy storms that struck the Chicago area and much of the Midwestern U.S. is far from the most severe ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Will we react in time to save Cairo?

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Will a modern-day image of this old postcard depicting Cairo, Ill. and its position along the rivers be nothing but a sea of light blue? ...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Nature more powerful than Communism?

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Former Illinois Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka recently came up with a commentary that everybody ought to give a read. She used her column publ...
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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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