A long and winding road to opening the Bloomingdale Trail
Huffington Post has a piece aboutThe upshot of it is: It’s coming along, slowly but surely. I am trying to be patient.
They were marking the anniversary of the death of Damian Turn, who was shot three blocks from the U of C’s hospitals last year and died during the nine-mile ambulance ride north to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The University of Chicago has no trauma center: Theirs closed in 1988 for financial reasons. Trauma centers are a money-losing proposition; the hospital has said that if they were to open a trauma center, they’d need to cut many other vital services.
The most perfectly crafted piece of lowbrow news I’ve ever seen Sheen made a celebrity appearance at the Gathering of the Juggalos, a three-day festival in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois for fans of the band Insane Clown Posse. Sheen was booed and had things thrown at him. Which is less biting a commentary than it sounds like, since it turns out the previous guests at this event, such as Tila Tequila and Method Man, had things thrown at them, too.
both companies question the other’s claim to be selling all-beef hot dogs, for instance. The trail opened yesterday in federal court in Chicago, and the hot-dog puns about the legal “beef” were just flying from all sides, according to this Trib story on the subject.
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