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"New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city! Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities!" (All photos are taken by me unless I state otherwise. Enjoy!)

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time it was. 

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Missing Costa Rica on this cold 10 degree day in Chicago. This was on a bus somewhere in-between San Jose and Puerto Viejo... Beauty. 

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North Center porch stabbing victim ID'd as Solomon Morales

I'm so sorry. RIP Brother <3

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Graffiti done by an 8 year old gypsy boy on the walls of the house he grew up in that his family are now being evicted from. Eerie & amazing. 

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Prowler in the Yard

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Capturing this photo made me feel like the goths in SLC Punk that were at the party where Stevo meets Brandi

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Not To DiSreSpect You but I was thinkin' if I never Met You... it Had Me Sweating...

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I MISS NOVEM! 

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haven't thought of you in awhile pookie. ill come visit your apartment soon. wonder how you're doin boo.. <3

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there must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

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iN a DaZe

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I love my friends.

JON'S BULLS PREDICTION:

There is an obvious and inevitable way that this series will play out.  After a good mix of valiant and bloody struggles by the Bulls and innumerable failed flops by Chris Bosh, the series will be tied at 3-3, game 7 set to settle it all.  Unfortunately, on game night Marco Bellinelli slipped in a puddle of spaghetti sauce, tearing his ACL, and Joakim Noah was got so high that he buried himself in an xbox Call of Duty tournament, missing the team's flight, so game seven doesn't look good for the bulls throughout the first half. At the end of the 2nd quarter, we're down 49 points.  After Chris Brown and Rihanna perform their hit song "hit it and quit it" at half time, our team returns from the locker room, holding their heads high but silently prepared for a noble loss.  The third quarter begins but spectators are puzzled when they notice that there are only 4 bulls players on the floor.  What is going on?  Suddenly, Derrick Rose tears off what was apparently a stripper-style, button-lined suit to reveal his game uniform.  (No one noticed that he was wearing his signature basketball shoes with his suit that night.)  He hits the court with more force than ever before, driving down open lanes at light speed, setting up perfect plays, and even dunking on Lebron James a record 19.5 times, causing King James to cry a little.  The bulls' win is so powerful, their utter superiority so undeniable, that the rest of the playoffs and finals are cancelled and their title as basketball champions of the world is announced.  Go bulls.

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i am not new to violence. i am not new to my safety being threatened or sacrificed. it is something that has become second nature. it has been normalized but it is not normal. the past few weeks i have been feeling the heaviness, more astutely, of chicago violence. within the past 2 months two...

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THIS. READ THIS.

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45 years ago today Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed (RIP) & the only person coming close to keeping his dreams and hopes alive is this woman, KAREN LEWIS. Fighting the good fight - she's spreading the word of moral obligations among us all, to speak up and out against injustices and at the same time calling each of us Brother and Sister. RIGHTEOUS.

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Righteous Brother.

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LiViN HaPpiE //

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where are you? its been a while

Hey! I know it has, I've been super anti-social... But we should hang sometime and talk about plants!