October 2009 – I guess it’s not enough that Mayor Daley gave the whole lakefront to his wealthy developer friends; now he wants to sign over the rest of Chicago to them. Not one building on the lakefront has affordable living.
August 2009 – In last month’s Gazette, a page-one article reported that Alderman James Balcer (11th Ward) ordered a wall to be painted over at 31st and Morgan Streets. This action was taken in response to numerous complaints by neighbors and members of the larger community citing that what had been painted on the wall was graffiti.
August 2009 – Without finding a sensible solution to funding dental programs, millions of Illinois families and children are at risk of suffering from both short-term and longterm health problems, including heart disease, stroke, pre-term childbirth and oral cancer.
August 2009 – I congratulate your celebration of the 26th anniversary of your publication, the Gazette. Your commitment is a lesson to all who wish to communicate with a print audience. One must have a sense of mission, of relevance to the lives of people. Clearly, you have adopted that mission and have that relevance.
June 2009 – We can’t thank you enough for the article about the 50 years of ministry that Carolyn and I spent as pastor and deaconess at First Immanuel Lutheran Church.
June 2009 – On behalf of our entire Dainava Chorale, we wish to extend our gratitude for the great coverage regarding our Lithuania’s millennium concert at Harris Theater in March (Gazette, March 6).
May 2009 – The Gazette’s recent article (April 3) on the Chicago Christian Industrial League and my return to that venerable institution was a well-intended but not entirely accurate description of that situation. Also, your accompanying editorial was far from accurate in its portrayal of CCIL’s relationship to local and state government…
April 2009 – We all remember Mayor Richard M. Daley and Pat Ryan [Chicago 2016 chair] telling us what an honor it would be to have the 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago. We heard them tell us it would put Chicago on the world map!
February 2009 – As I look out my window, I see to the left the Andrew Jackson School, on my right the Whitney Young and Skinner Schools. Every morning between 7 and 8 a.m., hundreds of children come up the Blue Line ramp, going to Whitney Young. They come from all over the city. They are rebuilding Skinner School, so those kids are going to a school out north for now. At the last meeting the Skinner officials hailed their kids as little “stars” and it is not open to the community kids.
February 2009 – I just finished reading the editorial page in the Gazette, Jan. 2, 2009, and I must say kudos! to the magazine. Finally, someone had the guts to state the obvious! We, as residents and taxpayers, in Chicago have allowed Mayor Richard M. Daley to do as he damn well pleases and he has brought the City of Chicago down to its knees with all the corruption, wasteful spending, and lawsuits against the City.
