Another day of protests in Chicago, as NATO begins its two-day summit.
Posts Tagged ‘Chicago’
Protest of the day
Posted: 20 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Chicago, inequality, NATO, protests, war
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Tom Morello and the National Nurses United protest in Chicago yesterday.
Right-handed pitcher Philip Humber threw a perfect game, the twenty-first in major league baseball history, in a 4-0 White Sox victory over the Seattle Mariners. Yesterday will also be remembered as the Boston massacre. A perfect game and a perfect day. . .
Apparently, the latest theory of regional accents is that they travel as much along political as geographical lines. The much-parodied Chicago accent stems from the Inland North accent and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (associated with the Erie Canal), reinforced by the politics that divided all of the United States between north and south, [...]
ChicagoGeek, “Blue Star Auto Stores (Built 1878)” 2001 South State Street, Chicago, IL Located in the old Levee District, once the most crime-ridden area in Chicago, Blue Star is the only surviving building from that era. Once the old Cullerton Hotel, before it was refacaded, this was once a popular hangout for Al Capone, who [...]
Workers at a window factory in Chicago—the same factory workers occupied in 2008 when Republic Windows & Doors tried to close it—ended a sit-in early this morning after the company agreed to keep the plant open for 90 days. “We are committed to finding a new buyer for the plant or if we can, buy [...]
Such a deal!
Posted: 19 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Chicago, corporations, jobs, Sears, taxes, United States
Sears Holding company laid off 100 workers [ht: sm] at its headquarters in Hoffman Estates (in the suburbs of Chicago) just two months after the state approved another hefty tax credit in response to the company’s threat to move to Ohio. This is what passes for job creation in the United States today. James Krohe [...]
Capitalism and the environment—Chicago edition
Posted: 18 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: capitalism, Chicago, environment, nature
I am frequently amazed both by capitalism’s ability to despoil the natural environment and by giant engineering projects, which remake the natural environment and create further problems. The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which has now been named to the National Register of Historic Places, fits both criteria. First, capitalist development in Chicago generated enormous [...]
Chicago, 2 February 2011
Stand Up Chicago [ht: ab] invited Chicago’s wealthy elite to take a seat on the golden throne. The coalition awarded the golden toilet to Terrence Duffy, Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), as a way of protesting the CME’s recent gift of $109 million from Illinois taxpayers. Close to a hundred Chicagoans—each representing one [...]
