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Month: June 2009

Why Do We Live Like This?

Kennedy Expressway Fun

New Contemporary Wing at Art Institute of Chicago

An Historic 19th Century Cemetery in Washington, Illinois

Update: This is Glendale Cemetery, and I went back and explored it in greater detail in 2011. You can see those posts here.

New Website Allows Commuters to Complain About Their Commute

I found a link on the Post-Dispatch website to a site called http://www.mycommutesucks.org. At this site you can read about (mostly Chicago area) commuters complaining about how their 50 mile commute takes 2 hours in rush hour traffic. Go figure! I did find one comment that seemed to address the vapid lack of self reflection…

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Italianate Farmhouse, c. 1872, Deer Creek, Illinois

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