A closing thought, to enter 2017: Hope.

This story starts in 2011, when a very proactive, newly-elected alderman, Alderman Ameya Pawar, commissioned me to help establish block clubs in his ward.  We agreed that the process should be organic.  The answer was […]

Chicago Theory Twelve Fifteen Sixteen

On the coldest of cold days, we become least judgmental.  No matter how we appear to each other, we are all just glad to see that we haven’t frozen yet; the winter brings us together, more than […]