Author: DXO
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Live Cockroaches, Corn Meal-Diving Flies, and Kitchen Sink Muff Up Palace Gate Africa Restaurant
Here's the litany: North Side Restaurant Shut By City Health Department Insect Infestation Will Not Be Tolerated A North Side restaurant was shut down today when Chicago Department of Public Health (CPDH) inspectors discovered live cockroaches in the kitchen, small flies in a bag of corn meal, and a clogged three-compartment sink. Palace Gate Africa, 4548 N.…
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DuPage County Fair 2009
Here's a set of photos I took at the DuPage County Fair last month. After spending time on a real farm this summer, and seeing where people prepare cattle for showing at a real county fair, I was curious to see what a county fair in a Chicago collar county looked like. The answer is…
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NYC Weekend Bridge and Street Closures – August 15-16
The following streets in Manhattan will be closed from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturdays through August 22 for Summer Streets: Centre Street between the Brooklyn Bridge exit and Reade Street; Lafayette Street between Reade and 9th Streets (west side); Wanamaker Place (east side)/4th Avenue between 10th and 14th Streets; Park Avenue between 14th…
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Fort Royal Fourth of July > Study of a Contemporary American Family Farm
Here’s a photo essay I did about the workings of a successful American family farm in 2009: It’s a pretty good personal document (for the Coppler family– my girlfriend’s wife’s mother’s family) and general document of smaller-scale farming in north central Ohio today. I took these pictures while a tour that her uncle gave to…
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NYC Weekend Bridge and Street Closures > August 8 – 9
The following streets in Manhattan will be closed from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturdays through August 22 for Summer Streets: Centre Street between the Brooklyn Bridge exit and Reade Street; Lafayette Street between Reade and 9th Streets (west side); Wanamaker Place (east side)/4th Avenue between 10th and 14th Streets; Park Avenue between 14th…