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It is the policy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce not to distribute or make public information about our members. To find out if a specific company is a member, you will have to contact the company directly.
Secrets, secrets, I guess not many want to be associated publicly with this shady partisan organization
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The answer should be apparent: We need to run from the “tough on crime” policies of the 80’s and 90’s. It’s time for greater emphasis on alternative sentences, an end to mandatory minimums and increased good time. There should be more spent on prisoner re-entry programs and prevention and less on prisons.
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In our apartment building, the windows are cleaned professionally once per year. According to the window cleaners, if you don’t do this, the windows could brown. Is this true? Or was this just a sales tactic? It is true. If your windows are not cleaned often, at least an average of four times a year, the sun will bake the dirt onto the glass and ruin them.
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The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way—”surrounded on all sides by the ocean,” in the words of an accompanying book—and named the continent for the Florentine merchant who had sailed down its eastern coast.
Wish this was a bigger reproduction though
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What is the andersonville galleria? The andersonville galleria, in the heart of the thriving Andersonville retail corridor, is a retail market building that currently features over 90 tenants offering apparel, jewelry, artwork, home furnishings, giftware, accessories, antiques. fair trade, and gourmet treats.
The andersonville galleria is located at 5247 N. Clark Street, in Chicago, which is right in the heart of Andersonville
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We called Senator Coburn’s Washington office to find out his annual operating budget. His assistant revealed that Coburn’s office has an estimated annual budget of $3 million, and that none of that recurrent funding has led to a cure for cancer.
That is, as of 2008 or so, this country spent about $5 million funding political science research, and about $3 million funding Tom Coburn.
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Those of us in the industry have watched a series of ill-timed decisions wreck a lot of careers in the past few years, so it’s hard for me to get specifically exercised about Zell and Michaels (and you may have noticed a rash of mismanagement in other industries over the same period that, like, brought the national economy to its knees). Zell, Michaels, et al certainly deserve what Carr gave them. But the rot’s a lot deeper
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Hang out in airports, coffee shops, or other laptop-friendly spots for a while, and you’ll find “Free Public Wi-Fi.” NPR explains that “Free Public WiFi” was never free, and never public, and not actually a Wi-Fi service. It likely started as a joke or prank, but then spread around the world because of a quirk in pre-SP 3 versions of Windows XP:
Tag: Chicago
Perspective Maintained
Is It Really Necessary?
View of a sun setting, signaling the end of a beautifully autumnal afternoon. Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone1 through a window. If you view the photo in the Lightbox version, you can make out some details of the feeder ramp to the Kennedy Expressway.
Footnotes:- Lens: John S / Flash: Off /Film: Ina’s 1935 [↩]
Convergence
View of park on Erie and Kingsbury from above.
links for 2010-10-04
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Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,363 of over 70,000 developers who use Appcelerator’s Titanium application development platform on their plans, interests and perceptions of the major mobile and tablet OS providers. The Macalope asks this every time one of these surveys appears: is that representative of the whole? Of course not. It’s representative of the fact that Appcelerator wants to drive traffic to its site by publishing some incendiary survey results. This survey most likely specifically excludes those who’ve been developing for the Mac for years and are nominally more likely to be Apple enthusiasts.
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Artisanal breads begin with just four ingredients – flour, water, salt and yeast – and turn them into loaves so crusty, chewy and fragrant that you cannot stop eating them. If they have some whole grain in them, even better.
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Most Chicagoans who work in the Loop have some familiarity with the Pedway, Chicago’s network of (mostly) underground passages and tunnels that transports pedestrians from the E,l to shopping, to work, without having to step foot out into the snow or rain. Many of us, however, use it purely to get to work and back, without ever bothering to find out just where the mysterious bends can actually take us. Let’s face it–the Pedway can be downright intimidating. So, both locals and tourists will be interested in local improviser and tour guide, Margaret Hicks’, reprisal of her Pedway Tour. The intriguing, 90-minute tour begins again this month, and features some of Chicago’s most famous buildings, without stepping outside.
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In 1976, two years before his 60th birthday, Ingmar Bergman was rehearsing a play at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm when two plainclothes policemen arrested and booked him for income-tax fraud. Although the charges were false and eventually dropped, this terribly humiliating experience caused the internationally acclaimed Swedish filmmaker to suffer a nervous breakdown and a deep depression. He vowed never to work again in his native country, and began a self-imposed exile
Black and White Upreach
View in Lightbox
Shot with a Hipstamatic1. The north branch of the Chicago River has more and more places that are pedestrian friendly.
No idea what the title even means, to be honest. Naming photographs is sometimes difficult, especially when one takes several thousand a year.
Footnotes:- Lens: John S / Flash: Off / Film: BlacKeys SuperGrain [↩]
Groovy Patterns
Shot with Hipstamatic1 at European Furniture Warehouse, on W Grand. This rug was a bit too dated to actually seriously consider purchasing, but it was fun to photograph.
Footnotes:- Lens: John S / Flash: Off / Film: Ina’s 1935 [↩]
Now I Am Busy
Taken with Hipstamtic for iPhone, than modified in SwankoLab.1 Lightbox version
The infamous Kinzie Street bridge, where the tour bus of the Dave Matthews Bus dumped out 100 gallons of sewage, just as a boatful of sightseers passed below. Ewww. Also where a former Daley aide allegedly committed suicide.
I should have straightened the photo, but I didn’t, and now kind of like the crookedness.
Footnotes:- using Noir Fixer, Grizzle Fix, and Vinny’s BL04 [↩]
Disappearing Mist
Lightbox version
iPhone photo from quite a while ago, at Big Bowl, I think, modified recently in SwankoLab.1
Title is again a poorly remembered Japanese proverb, which according to Wikiquote reads as:
雲散霧消 unsan mushō
- Literally: scattered clouds, disappearing mist
- Meaning: Disappear without a trace.
- using Grizzle Fix, Rasputin, and Vinny’s BL94 [↩]
Not Knowing Is Just Fine
A photo taken at the Japanese garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden, manipulated a few days later in SwankoLab.1 Lightbox version.
The cloth rope tied around the rope is supposedly a Do Not Enter sign.
Title is a poor translation of a Zen phrase, rendered at Wikiquote as:
知らぬが仏
- Shiranu ga hotoke.
- Literally: Not knowing is Buddha.
- using Jerry’s Developer, Vinny’s CO34, and Zero [↩]
One Thousand Stories Contained Therein
Taken with my iPhone, and modified in SwankoLab.1 I’m sure I borrowed the title from somebody else…
Click here for Lightbox version
Footnotes:- using SwankoDev H1N [↩]
Urban Jungle
iPhone photo taken from Riverbend, then manipulated on the iPhone with SwankoLab12
Click here for lightbox version
Footnotes:Urban Flowers
South Loop. Van Buren, probably
Better in Lightbox:
www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/4996049480/in/photostrea…
doorway of the abandoned USPS Chicago HQ…which is still for sale if you’ve got a few million dollars in your piggybank.
Looking for a copy of the D&O policy
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil
went looking (unsuccessfully ) for an open post office last Saturday. Oh well, at least I got some interesting views of a mostly empty downtown in the rain…
Greater Little Rock – Everyone Is Welcome
Dayton and Armitage, Chicago
Better viewed in Lightbox:
www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/4977227657/lightbox/
from a couple of years ago