Azteca Tacos, 1836 South Blue Island, has failed a health inspection by the Chicago Department of Public Health.
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Last week the Francis Scott Key Elementary School passed a “suspected food poisoning” inspection conducted by the Chicago Department of Public Health. Here’s a summary of the results.
The inspection record indicated that the location must serve cold breakfast and lunch using plastic utensils.
There have been issues at this location in the past as well. Here are records of 4 recent inspections.
The school is slated to be closed, according to a list published by the Chicago Public Schools.
Last time I checked in at Lincoln Marsh it was to document calendrical closing of our durable winter. This crunchy reeds were everywhere and ice mixed with water:
As we went through the bucket-style downpours last week, I often thought of what that would mean for the marsh. More water, for one, which would be welcome, given the mud that replaced water in the dryness of last summer:
What I forgot about, however, was the burn. Every year the forest preserve does prescribed burns to renew the marsh. Sometime between today and the last time I was there, they burned down all the reeds of winter.
And mini-logs that caught fire look more ominous in tilt-shift:
Now the full fresh water has returned:
There’s not much green, but the base is there:
This field mouse will see nothing of hot summer:
We’re so lucky.
Even the finest of establishments can fail to practice proper food safety.
On Friday, the banquet area of the Drake Hotel— the high-end venue at overlooking Lake Michigan at Oak Street Beach– failed a restaurant inspection. There are some pretty harsh things observed by CDPH inspectors:
Not good. Here’s a full list of suspected food poisoning inspections.
If you suspect that you got food poisoning, report it here.
I love the obituaries. Today there is an amazing one.
ROBERT G. EDWARDS, 1925-2013
Changing Rules of Conception With the First ‘Test Tube Baby’
Robert G. Edwards, who opened a new era in medicine when he joined a colleague in developing in vitro fertilization, enabling millions of infertile couples to bring children into the world and women to have babies even in menopause, died on Wednesday at his home near Cambridge, England. Dr. Edwards, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his breakthrough, was 87.
Dr. Edwards, a flamboyant and colorful physiologist who courted the press and vigorously debated his critics, and with his colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, essentially changed the rules for how people can come into the world. Conception was now possible outside the body — in a petri dish.
Gina Colata tells the sprawling British story of audacious science. The one where a couple of doctors, with little official support and many cast aspersions, never gave up on the idea that there could be another way to conceive a human life.
They were right. In vitro fertilization is a fact of humanity five million times over. It’s neither my job nor wont to consider the morality or ethics of this fact. I just know that it was a remarkable human life, ended just yesterday, that helped make it so. Worth reading about it today.