Author: DXO
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On EveryBlock and the Open Data Movement
Today marks the end of a website called EveryBlock. I was lucky enough to be a part of the team that first made that site. Here’s a post I wrote on our launch day explaining what it meant to be a meaningful contributor to the project. I had been obsessed with municipal data for years,…
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Results of Belleville Police Department Alcohol Compliance Check
The following information was provided by the Belleville Police Department: On Thursday January 31st 2013 the Belleville Police Department conducted an “Alcohol Compliance Check” at eleven (11) locations licensed to sell liquor in the city of Belleville. Of the locations checked three had employees who sold alcohol to a minor working with officers. The following…
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The Time I Called Scott McNealy on the Telephone
Today I am going to a talk at 1871 by Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the fathers of the modern computing industry. In early 1993, I saw an article in the New York Times with a picture of McNealy and some of his colleagues looking at video over the internet: Tech…
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Two Restaurants Fail Inspection: Harold’s Chicken Shack and JV
The first was a restaurant owned by JV Enterprises at 60 W. Adams. This is the address for the Marquette Inn. As far as I can tell, they need to clean the place up and fix a sink in the kitchen. Here’s the details: 21. * CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE WHEN POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS…
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Winfield Mounds Through Time
I took the same set of photos in the same portion of the DuPage County Forest Preserve 31 separate times from December 2006 through January 2013.