Bill Savage

Rev. Jesse Jackson to be laid to rest at Oak Woods Cemetery, 'part of the city's unrivaled historic fabric' The 173-year-old cemetery — solemn, historic and picturesque — will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson this week.

Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined.

Over half goes to private defense contractors.

This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

It would be terrible if America ran out of drones and had to go to Ukraine to beg for drones and cheap drone tech, and Trump to visit and be harassed by Zelensky for not wearing OD green while in a war. And Vance and Rubio had to yell Glory to the Heroes in order to get help from Europe as well.

Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.

“I oppose the war but I voted to fund it because I had no choice” will be the talking point of too many.

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

"Is your leader currently breaking ground on several expensive and cartoonishly vain construction projects in the nation’s capital?"

On every corner at Michigan and Wacker, not just SE. They never explain how Fort Dearborn hovered 100 feet above the ground either. Early helicopter technology? Magic? No wonder Black Partridge and the Potawatomi saw the place as a threat.

Somehow this didn’t post this morning. Happy 189th birthday to Chicago.

Yet you erase Joliet and Marquette. For shame!

In the 80s I helped launder several thousand dollars of drug money through the Girl Scouts of America by selling mass quantities of cookies to the local weed dealer, who then packed his customer’s orders in with the cookies.

Proof that both @rogersparkman.bsky.social and Burke (and me) were at the dedication. Not sure if the Flood Brothers truck is proof that the cleaning crew was there.

It's like Jim Thompson actually knew Noem.
“I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”
—Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Years ago, I was at the dedication of a plaque on the building where James T. Farrell lived on S. Indiana. Huge vacant lot across the street, full of trash, behind speaker's stand. An hour before event, cleaning crew appears, clears it. Then Ed Burke comes to give remarks. Wonder where he's at now.

Texas really giving us a vivid preview of the range of anti-democratic shenanigans Republicans are working on for November.

We're the Second City not because of that New Yorker guy, but because we had a First founding, then a Second founding. Two birthdays are better than one!

Will Art Institute expansion leave Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange room in the cold? No decision has been made, but the museum says "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."

My architecture column today. Art Institute tells the Sun-Times no decision has been made on the old CSE trading room, but adds "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."

Happy birthday, Chicago.
A city that leapt to enable lawsuits before banning brothels, billiards and bowling in one stroke. I'm proud I took the time to read the city charter for my book, "Every Goddamn Day." The city's birthday might be an apt time to pick up a copy.

www.amazon.com/Every-Goddam...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Multiple news stories criticizing the Texas Rangers for putting up that statue of the segregationist

You love to see it. I know the Rangers and @mlb.com don't give a shit and are happy to honor racism, but you love to see it called out at least.

Benetti getting Sunday night baseball may make me start watching Sunday Night Baseball again for the first time in like a decade.

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

Of the 42 countries in the World Cup:
Trump is invading 2 (Iran and, as of yesterday, Ecuador)
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and to a lesser extent, Jordan are caught in the crossfire
Trump is threatening another, likely favorite Spain, bc it refuses to join Trump's illegal war

www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

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People fucking hate chaos and kidnapping.

People hate chaos and kidnapping

Medieval tapestry depicting a group of men pointing up at a comet soaring brightly across the sky, with the Latin caption ‘Isti mirant stella’.

lēoht-bēamede, adj: (of a comet) having beams or rays of light. (LAY-o’ht-BAY-ahm-uh-duh / ˈleːɔxt-ˌbeːam-ə-də)
Image: Bayeux Tapestry (scene 32); France (Bayeux), second half of 11th century; Bayeux, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Baron-Gérard.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

service entrance for Chicago Motor Club building, Lower Wacker Place