Last time we were at the Chicago World’s Fair we toured the area in the red rectangle. This time we’re going to head north away from the Grand Basin. Since we’re already familiar with the top of the Liberal Arts Building, let’s go back up there...
The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was largely designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. The...
Comcast is running a series of television ads here in Chicago. I’m not sure if Comcast is running them nationally or not. This gist of the ads is that Comcast is so darn Comcastic that their customers would rather do something really unpleasant (i.e., re-marry...
The American psyche is prone to fits of paranoia and hysteria about our collective status in the world. Less than a decade into the massification of the internet, a feat brought about in no small part by American technology and genius, we are being inundated with...
During his campaign, Barack Obama alleged that only 70% of high school students graduate with a diploma. This astonished me so I dug further. Overall, I have a pretty positive view of the education system in this country. There is essentially no debating that the...
