The arctic air that just moved through the area produced substantial lake-effect snow off the Great Lakes. But both Pennsylvania and Illinois got odd, rare streaks of snow in the vicinity of nuclear power plants: perhaps nuclear-tower snow or nuclear-cooling-pond snow.
The GOP has been losing ground in America’s cities, and the wounds are largely self-inflicted. If it can throw off its Agenda-21 fringe and its instinctual opposition to urbanist ideas that really shouldn’t be ideological, it could make progress—especially in red-state cities that are the new urbanist frontier.
Who’s standing by Jay Cutler? Liberal Democrats. Republicans in Illinois are more skeptical of the Bears’ quarterback, at least when they’re not rooting for the Packers. NB: poll results are from the week the Bears beat the Vikings, not their late season collapse, which may have disturbed the electorate.
In 2006, Illinois Republicans ran a social moderate against an unpopular governor, and lost. In 2010, they ran a social conservative against an even more unpopular governor, and lost. Now Bill Brady has moved to the center, conservatives are moving against their former standard-bearer, and the party has to decide again what sort of candidate should oppose Quinn (or a much, much more formidable foe).
He fled communist Yugoslavia by crawling down a drainpipe, married a Greek princess, and led a life of declining geopolitical intrigue that frequently brought him to Chicago. Buried in Libertyville, his body remained there for four decades, as his homeland reconciled itself to its monarchic past, aided by a popular American television show and the fall of communism.
David Rosen of The Competence Group is a DePaul grad who’s worked for Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and the DNC… and this week, as a go-to guy for getting donors into the inauguration’s best after-parties.
The President sets Stonewall alongside Selma and the Seneca Falls Convention in a plea for equality in sexual orientation: “for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
The Fulton Market Cold Storage building, which rose in 1923 in the heart of the beef distribution and racketeering district, had to be thawed out before it can become a mixed-use development.
In defense of the Chicago winter and the Hawk Wind: it’s a hard kind of awe, but it’s the only awe we have in one of the least naturally wondrous great cities on earth.
As you might guess, the collar counties are the state’s richest, though the very richest may surprise you. The poverty downstate is intense in places, along the lines of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
