High-rise fire: Resident angry that residential units lacked sprinklers

Neighbor says death in condo blaze was avoidable

Maureen Marley warned of this day for nearly eight years.

After losing a neighbor to a fire in 2002, she expressed fears that someone else would fall victim to a blaze in their 44-story condo building. Marley tried to avert tragedy by pushing to have sprinklers installed in the building's residential units, but her condo board and the City Council ignored her pleas.

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Again, as we all well know, the Chicago City Council knows best, for everyone, doesn't it?

Quite frankly, these Aldermen and Alderwomen are responsible for the death of this woman.

The City of Chicago should be sued to the gills over this, and each aldercreep should be made to contribute, out of their personal funds, to the funeral for this poor woman, Beata Bihl.

When you are bored, check out this site!

CITY WITHIN A CITY

THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHICAGO’S MARINA CITY

Written by Steven Dahlman

This is an excellent, well-executed site for those of you who enjoy Chicago history.

Thank you, Steven Dahlman!

Silly donkeys making silly decisions

Some Quotes On Friendship

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia


Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects


Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington (1732 - 1799)


In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Target exploits children of color

Every Sunday morning, the Target weekly ads pop into one of my mailboxes. Today's version is 52 pages. Would any of you readers of this blog agree that Target may possibly be exploiting children of color in the below photos?

This blog is based in the northern area of the City of Chicago (Rogers Park, to be exact), Dick'em Daley, Mayor, where we seem to have an inordinate amount of shootings, though Dick'em has placed a ban on handguns.

How nice of Target to help promote use of weaponry by children of color.

No, actually, how disgusting of Target to promote toys such as these, making it seem 'natural' for a child of color to use a weapon.