A Chicago Blog

So I’ve been experimenting with this powerful web product called Caspio. It allows a novice user to create interactive databases without any programming knowledge. Some database familiarity is still required, but over all, this product tremendously simplifies the process of putting data online. I haven’t found their pricing info yet. Let’s hope it isn’t too [...]

From Crains:
ASK Public Strategies, a firm headed by Obama campaign senior consultant David Axelrod, and the Chicago office of Hill & Knowlton will head a projected $2-million to $3-million media and advertising campaign planned by the Alliance to Protect the Illinois Constitution.
“We haven’t signed the contract, but they’re going to be the choice,” said Greg [...]

The ballyhoo over the Supreme Court’s recent decision that declared Washington DC’s handgun ban unconstitutional, and therefore implied the same for Chicago, didn’t last through the holiday. Unfortunately, neither did five poor souls who fell victim to gun violence in downtown Chicago during the long weekend.
“Why should our streets be open to someone carrying a [...]

Eric at ReallyBoring.net built a Google Map with Chicago neighborhood information superimposed. Very useful indeed.

Bad news man. I tell people how safe Chicago is and here five people are shot during the busiest festival of the year. Are they going to have to put officers with assault rifles in the loop?

At least the rude ones. Now if we could just get Todd Stroger to follow suit :=)
Seriously though, don’t you think it’s a little over the line for a journalist to send insulting email to a manager, trying to egg him on? Rick Morrissey was clearly trying to create news in order to report on [...]

Don’t forget, if you want to buy anything, leave Cook County and avoid being raped at the register. Lucky for Todd, the price of gas has gone up. It’s no longer worth driving to the suburbs for a carton of cigarettes and groceries. You can only really break even if your buying a car or [...]

Reader Dan asks why I haven’t commented on the Supreme Court Gun Decision. To which, I have absolutely no response. It is unacceptable. So here goes.
This decision is along time coming. City-wide gun bans are clear attack on 2nd Amendment rights. Period. Mayor Daley is vowing to “fight” attempts to invalidate the Chicago ban. In [...]

Wow! Even the Chicago Fed is blogging.

John Kass is on the case. (I didn’t know he was such a damn Sox fan)