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ronald McDonald house dinner by dstanfor
Chicago area MeFites got together this past weekend for the second time to cook dinner for people at the Hyde Park Ronald McDonald House.
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Chicago's architecture
Madison at Clark, in the Loop by heyho linda
MetaFilter member heyho shares why she chose to live in Chicago and all the bits of art and architecture that convinced her to stay there forever.
we're asking schools to solve societal problems that need much broader, more comprehensive solutions than schools can provide.
Chicago teachers demanding improvements to working conditions by fussy onion (cc by)
The strike will settle one way or the other, and I'm following it pretty anxiously because it will have a huge impact on what financial choices my district has going forward. But the truth is that fighting over schools is just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic of totally failed poverty policies.
explanation & specifics from Eyebrows McGee, an "an elected school board member in a downstate Illinois large urban district"
When they say six, they mean six!
Pedway to Illinois Center and Marshall Fields by juggernautco (cc by)
The "pedway" is an underground tunnel system below buildings in downtown Chicago, letting people walk throughout the city beneath the street surface. As shakespeherian found out, when they say it closes at six, they mean it closes at six, here's his story of being stuck in the pedway.
originally spotted by jessamyn
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