Here’s a map by the RedEye of murders in Chicago since January 1. Red dots = murders in January, February, and March. Blue dots = murders in April. Total > 100 so far. That’s actually a decrease from last year, when there were 133 murders from January through April. View Chicago homicides map in a … Read more
Forget the cubicle, get off the couch, and ditch the coffee shop. Freelance technology workers these days have a new way to get things done –coworking (enthusiasts insist there is no hyphen). A new coworking space, opened in January, aims to provide Chicago’s independent workers with a different kind of occupational environment. The COOP is … Read more
Joe Born wants to change the way you use your television. Born, chief executive officer, of Neuros Technology International, is an entrepreneur in the classic sense. He got his start in the 1990s with a patent on a device for repairing damaged CDs. Then in 2001, he started Chicago-based Neuros Technologies, which started out making portable digital … Read more
[flashvideo file=”flash_video/Cut_Paste.flv” /] How do you find out who are the sharpest, most creative designers in the world? With a good, old-fashioned, graphic design battle, of course. The 2009 Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament pitted the best graphic designers against one another in a competition like no other. Armed with state-of-the art computers, designers … Read more
At a certain time of day, specifically, a little bit before 9 AM, if you exit onto the street at the Monroe stop on the Red Line in the Loop, you’ll see that the light reflected off the shiny glass building on the west side of the street illuminating the buildings on the east side … Read more
Taken this evening at about 5:30 p.m., here.
I caught a cold. It even came with a minor ear infection. So I’ve been popping the amoxicillin and OTC cold remedies. Bummer. I saw Watchmen. I liked it. It got a bum rap from the fanboys (and critics), but then again, how could it not? Some of the reviews have said that it was … Read more
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This is the first time I’ve been in a city that starts celebrating a full week before St. Patty’s. Please enjoy this video shot at the South Side Irish St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday. [flashvideo file=”flash_video/st.pats.flv” /] *** Update, 3/27/2009 *** Looks like this was the last South Side Irish … Read more
[flashvideo file=”flash_video/UnemploymentSeminar.flv” /] This is the first video that I’ve turned in for Northwestern that hasn’t been completely terrible. It’s a story about a group in Chicago that provides support services for the unemployed to assist in their job search called the Career Transitions Center.
