Placemaking Chicago is an initiative meant to get communities involved in the planning of public spaces.
Its “What makes your place great?” contest is a way for you to speak up about your favorite public spaces in Chicago and Chicago suburbs. You can email original photos or videos of your favorite public spaces to placemakingchicago@metroplanning.org along with a 250-word or less description.
The contest is open June 3 through July 27. Four winners will be announced on Sept. 25.
Prizes include Art Institute passes, architecture tour tickets, and gift certificates to some of Chicago’s yummiest restaurants.
Still, according to Deardorff, charities may be the only way to sign up for the Chicago marathon past deadline.
For those out there thinking of joining a charity run, the Tribune offers these training tips:
*Respect the distance: 26.2 miles.
*Choose a charity that helps a cause you feel a connection with emotionally. That will give you added motivation.
*Make sure you can raise the money or donate it yourself. Otherwise you won’t get your race number.
*If you can’t run 6 miles right now, consider signing up with a charity that offers a winter or spring event, rather than a fall marathon.
*Get race experience. Do a half-marathon before trying a marathon.
*If you’re training with a group, find someone with similar goals and abilities. If you don’t like the group, seek another or download programs online. The official marathon training program, which is run by Nike, is free.
Radio Arte is a Latino public radio station owned by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Bucio’s report is part of Radio Arte’s SALUD: Healing Through the Arts program which brings community youths together to use art to explore the connection between immigration and health.
Listen to Bucio’s report to see how SALUD is gearing its sex ed. workshops to the Latino community.
It made me think of a post I did a few weeks ago where I interviewed water expert Josh Ellis about the water situation in Illinois. Mind you, Illinois isn’t running out of water, but Bolinas, Calif. is an example of what you have to do when the wells start to go dry.
The report includes these tips from Bolinas-Stinson Elementary School students:
put a bucket in the shower and use that to flush the toilet
don’t leave faucets running while your brushing your teeth
bring a water bottle to school because when you drink out of the drinking fountain, 25 percent of the water goes down the drain
if it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down
Spotted: a mountain of scrap metal on North Avenue just east of the river. If anyone out there knows where the mounain is going/where it’s coming from, please share!
A local bird made a nest in the (burned-out) lamp outside my apartment. These are her babies. She sat on a roof next door with a worm hanging out of her mouth. Waiting for me to go away.
Chicago Public Radio recently covered the controversy that arose out of the painting over of a Bridgeport mural of Chicago Police Department blue light cameras and images of the crucifiction. The Department of Streets and Sanitation has recently taken blame for the mural’s disappearance, but the whole incident raises interesting questions about where officials draw the line between mural art and grafitti.
The whole thing reminds me of the painting over of the famed Virgin Mary salt stain under the Kennedy Expressway earlier this year.
So what do we think? Art? Miracle? Or simply defacement?
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