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We’re honored to have been guests on WBEZ’s Curious City to talk about the National Girls Baseball League. In this episode, we explore how the league came to be, what made it unique, and why its legacy deserves more recognition today.

via: r/chicago

The WBEZ-Sun Times CEO just announced today a voluntary separation program (aka paying folks to leave early before WBEZ's forced to let them go for cost reasons). Scary times for one of the nation’s most prolific NPR stations.

If you’re like me and you’ve relied on this sub and free sites for local reporting, now’s the time step up to support WBEZ (or other local outlets) if you can.

I’m not talking big dollars - I only setup a $5/month donation..... I put some donation links below, but welcome others to comment with additional worthwhile orgs. Without local media and journalists as our backbone, random blank profiles posting unverified ICE sightings are all the “news” we'll have.

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A piece from WBEZ Chicago on why the city’s rents are more unaffordable than ever.

Three main causes (stop me if you’ve heard this one before)

Construction of new apartments is way down compared to pre-2008

Older 3- and 4-flats are being deconverted into single-family homes in gentrifying neighborhoods

Or they’re demolished or abandoned, particularly on the South and West sides

Also: Chicago currently has a ban on rent control, but there are moves to un-ban it!

Living in the confluence of Andersonville, Uptown and Edgewater, I’ve seen a NIMBYist movement here that protests any new dense housing; they’d rather have empty lots than a modest apartment block OF THE SAME KIND THAT MOST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS MADE OF.

When you look at major arterials like Broadway, so much of it has dumb suburban-style zoning so there are low-rise mini-malls and chain groceries with mandatory surface parking lots. They built a whole new one recently, anchored by a Burlington Coat Factory but the rest is unrented and empty!

It’s what makes large stretches of Broadway blank, windswept and unappealing to walk on, particularly with higher-speed car traffic.

This kind of property will never be worth more than it is right now, and it’s an unproductive use of valuable urban land, generating less tax revenue per acre than older neighborhoods, while still requiring the same city service outlay.

* on the Highway of My Life * the Isley Brothers laid it all out;

"…there's no time or place to be concerned with those on the other side of the road."

we on this side still have work to do - surviving & just being making a measure of joy out of sorrow, pain, chaos - whatever comes our way as we remember those who never made it to the road,

dying in the crossing - ancestrally - not too long ago to be forgotten; **

while we striders or drivers, Green Book in hand, cross an increasingly cur-sed land

of spirit, separation, based on sand ( ...meaning Silicon chips & AI, yall ).

'steern' wheel gripped at 10 & 2, now riding down unmetaphoric roads,

mind working the four w's & a how, eyeing our rear view mirror every so…;

scaling the high way when they go low anywhere - traveled each to & fro

& singing - heartsongs of sassy soul - loud, or sotto voce as we deign to slumber in a peaceful repose after any tumultuous poll, dreaming dreams filled with wonder. * 8/23 - lebuc - the other side * The Isley Bros. - The Highways of My Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCN68X7Wy4&pp=ygUdb3RoZXIgc2lkZSBvZiB0aGUgcm9hZCBpc2xleXM%3D

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