How Is Chicago for Travel These Days?
Dec 21, 2021, 3:03 pm
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Dec 24, 2021, 7:48 am
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Depends on the establishment. I've been to some where they did a close look at the vaccine card to match my ID and others where they just waved me in with a quick flash of the *back* of the vaccine card and no ID check. Bottom line, they want your business.
Dec 27, 2021, 10:52 pm
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I went to Chicago 12/21-22. Everything felt normal though to go to the Lyric Opera we had to show proof of vaccination and ID which caused a big bottleneck to get in. The fact that it was cold did not help.
Jan 6, 2022, 6:51 am
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Jan 11, 2022, 3:21 am
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Jan 11, 2022, 8:01 am
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Jan 11, 2022, 2:12 pm
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I didn’t post this to forward any political or social view point. I’m not looking to turn this into an anti Chicago thread. If one person arrives in our beleaguered city with an increased situational awareness, it’s worth the cost of the eye roll.
I only feel guilty for not posting this weeks/months ago. These things are happening in the heart of our city, not in the mean streets where I grew up. It’s winter: How can it be getting worse?
Please travel safe, but also, keep your situational awareness and travel smart. We want you back here in better days.
I only feel guilty for not posting this weeks/months ago. These things are happening in the heart of our city, not in the mean streets where I grew up. It’s winter: How can it be getting worse?
Please travel safe, but also, keep your situational awareness and travel smart. We want you back here in better days.
Feb 1, 2022, 6:30 pm
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Is it true about more crises in Chicago? Nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/u...e=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/u...e=articleShare
Violence in Chicago is a pressing concern, as carjackings, shootings and homicides all spiked in 2020 and 2021.
On Wednesday night, a police officer on patrol downtown shot a man. The authorities said that the man was inside a vehicle taken in a carjacking, and that someone in the car had fired at the police. Days earlier, an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed while crossing a street with her mother in the Little Village neighborhood; a 16-year-old was later charged with murder.
Donovan Price, a pastor who goes to shooting scenes to assist victims’ families, said his work felt particularly bleak in the past year.
“The amount of children shot in general, the amount of mass shootings, just the feel that things were out of control,” said Mr. Price, who lives on the South Side.
On Wednesday night, a police officer on patrol downtown shot a man. The authorities said that the man was inside a vehicle taken in a carjacking, and that someone in the car had fired at the police. Days earlier, an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed while crossing a street with her mother in the Little Village neighborhood; a 16-year-old was later charged with murder.
Donovan Price, a pastor who goes to shooting scenes to assist victims’ families, said his work felt particularly bleak in the past year.
“The amount of children shot in general, the amount of mass shootings, just the feel that things were out of control,” said Mr. Price, who lives on the South Side.
Feb 2, 2022, 8:17 am
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Is it true about more crises in Chicago? Nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/u...e=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/u...e=articleShare
Feb 4, 2022, 10:17 am
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We don't want him and in the midst of recalling our own DA. Both these twits should start a practice for pro-bono work, because that's about all their services would be worth.
Feb 4, 2022, 11:43 am
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Chicago is always great, and it's a world class city in so many ways. It remains on my sort of longish short-list of preferred major cities for living/working and to host visitors; and it remains on my short short-list of preferred major US cities. Are there things that I don't like about Chicago? Sure, but that can be said about a lot of great cities around the country, and yet that doesn't change what makes Chicago a great city to visit and even stay.
Feb 5, 2022, 9:21 am
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Chicago is a great place. Biz people around the country have told me that they love to hire Chicago-ians for their moral compass and work ethic. As a child my (extended) neighborhood boasted the Pullman Car Company, Bernie Mac and the birthplace of the Special Oympics (notwithstanding the shameful and pathetic claims of the Kennedy-Shriver family). That's just one neighborhood. What a great place. And it's my life long home. Where I've build six thriving businesses.
If I asked someone how things were in a place I am unfamiliar with because current affairs begged the question about safety, I would wonder why they are telling me how much they like the place. But, maybe that's like the blind date thing: "What do they look like?". "Well, they have a great personality". Maybe plastic surgery is what we need. The foundation seems strong, just a little ugly on the edges right now.
If I asked someone how things were in a place I am unfamiliar with because current affairs begged the question about safety, I would wonder why they are telling me how much they like the place. But, maybe that's like the blind date thing: "What do they look like?". "Well, they have a great personality". Maybe plastic surgery is what we need. The foundation seems strong, just a little ugly on the edges right now.