Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Eileen O’Neill Burke for State’s Attorney
For weeks now, I’ve been working on behalf of Eileen O’Neill Burke for Cook County State’s Attorney, and I wanted to share more broadly my thinking on this important race. I was a 2-time voter and supporter of Kim Foxx, our current Cook County State’s Attorney, and I think she has done a great job.…
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Vote “yes” to Bring Chicago Home
Bring Chicago Home is a binding referendum on the March 2024 ballot where voters get to decide whether to authorize Chicago city council members to restructure the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-time tax on properties when they are sold to create a substantial and legally dedicated revenue stream to provide permanent affordable housing…
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Our Boilerplate
In December 1994, I published an eight-part verse essay called, “Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction”, subtitled, “Being a List of 8 Ways in Which the Dead at Waco are a Lot Like the Rest of Us”. Here’s more info on the book we published, with a snip: Boilerplate was first published…
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Lies and Safety
On Sunday, February 19, 2023, the White House published a schedule that was full of lies. In fact, the President was in a war zone– 10 hours by train to Ukraine: Mr. Biden had already been scheduled to arrive in Warsaw on Tuesday morning for a two-day visit, and White House officials had repeatedly brushed…
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Architectural Detail of Webster Avenue Bridge Improvements
The Depression-era railings for the Webster Avenue Bridge have been replaced, and they are worthy.