An asylum for the preservation of illusion.

Raging against the machine

Newspapers around the world reported the protest against HR 5035 in Los Angles, but with typical media myopia, largely ignored the earlier, albiet slightly smaller protest held here in Chicago. That protest caught me by suprise and I didn't have a camera when it arrived downtown — a consequence of not speaking Spanish.

I was on the ball, though, at this year's anti-war protest, and now submit, for your approval, my account thereof.

Seeing Green

I've added pictures to the Other Cities section. Specifically, in Milwaukee, Kenosha, Racine, and Waukegan from my bike ride to Milwaukee. I've added a subdirectory to the Loop neighborhood featuring the traditional dying of the Chicago Rive for St. Patrick's Day this year.

Thanks to a reader I also fixed a spelling error in the name of one of the neighborhoods (Montclare).

I also have a set of pictures from the war protest this year that are still being edited.

Long Way Down

I've added a new subdirectory to the Hermosa Neighborhood called From the Water Tower. It contains pictures I took some months ago from a (now dismantled) water tower atop a factory which was being converted to condos. After getting up there, I made a panorama of the skyline but I haven't decided how to incorporate it into the neighborhoods website yet.

I've also added photos to the River North neighborhood and to Milwaukee in the Other Cities section.

Many, Many Changes

When I redesigned the neighborhoods website back in January of last year, I did so with the intention of making it easier for me to make updates. That was successful. At that time, the project was stalled after more than a year in existence with only a few dozen neighborhoods photographed. As of today, only 10 neighborhoods are left unavailable on the map. While the project has moved forward quickly over the past year, I've been much less diligent about maintaining the changelog. I hope to change that today. From now on, I resolve to make a new blog entry every time I make a major update to the project site.

What follows is a summary of the many changes made but not recorded in the past year.

Recent Changes of neighborhoods.chicago.il.us

This is a living document that contains the most recent changes made to http://neighborhoods.chicago.il.us. Please note that this document is updated as I make the changes, but the changes to the website are often not committed for several hours. So if a change exists here that is not on the site, check back the next day. Because this is a living document, the date below express the last time it was updated.