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One key snip:

"Eventually, the 6-foot-4-inch Rostenkowski cut through a gas station, broke into a sprint and escaped into his car, which minutes earlier had one of the elderly protesters, Leona Kozien, draped over the hood."

Pure journalistic gold.

Anyway-- you should really read this article all the way through. It shows how civic engagement, anger about healthcare costs, and hotdog & baked beans lunches endure forever.
www.chicagotribune.com/1989/08/18/i...

I was there at the time documenting a raucous pre-pandemic public meeting full of people opposed to senior housing at the hulking emptiness of Six Corners

I was looking in my photo history for any evidence of Rostenkowski's name anywhere in Chicago and all I found was this small plaque at the Copernicus Center indicating he was the inaugural winner of the Copernican Award in 1981

INSURANCE FORUM TURNS CATASTROPHIC FOR ROSTENKOWSKI Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, one of the most powerful politicians in the United States, was booed and chased down a Chicago street Thursday morning by a group of senior citizens after he refused t…

In researching the post about this forgotten Chicagoan, I came across an absolutely bonkers 1989 news article from the @chicagotribune.com recounting the time Rostenkowski was set upon by 100 senior citizens disinterested in higher health care costs: www.chicagotribune.com/1989/08/18/i...

The infrastructural art of Dan Rostenkowski Dan Rostenkowski is the most important invisible person in the history of Chicago.

Here's a new post about art I picked up at Dan Rostenkowski's estate sale in April 2018: www.sldxo.life/p/the-infras....

I was there, in City Council chambers, the night of "No Deals!" when they made Sawyer the mayor. Watching Swayer's quick exit, the rise of Daley II, and the power base Evans built in the courts, I still wonder if the slogan we all chanted wasn't the plan they executed.

@injusticewatch.org is out with an encyclopedic take by @mdoukmas.bsky.social on Timothy Evans, low-key one of the most consequential Chicagoans of the last 50 years.

Map: Where we’re seeing ICE in the Chicago area - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Cover of the 1998 book "Who Moved My Cheese?"

some of you all need to remember a book from 1998

Who is the custodian of Arte Agora? The slippery slope of “ownership” for art placed in the public way

What happens to street art after the artist leaves it there? Who's the custodian of those pieces? Here's my take: www.sldxo.life/p/who-is-the... #streetart #artist #arteagora #art #arthistory #art #culture #artcriticism

Closeup photo of a Chicago Tribune delivery truck

I take pictures and people use them for free I am happy. www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-me...