Today is the day for obvious news stories. For example, did you know that Illinois is the second-flattest state in the mainland? And given that Alaska and Hawaii both have mountains and we only have the suburb of Mt. Prospect, I’ll bet we’re second flattest out of 50! You know why many people in the… [Read More]
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Infrastructure, world trade, and O’Hare
Last year, I had the opportunity to tour the site of the new cold-storage facility at O’Hare Airport. (Like any good writer, I took the tour without neither assignment nor deadline, and good luck getting any writer to write anything without a deadline in hand.) The tour was organized by the government of Ecuador, in… [Read More]
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This counts as a blog post, yes? Of course, yes. It’s summer in Chicago!
Togo: The Village of Waiting
George Packer is an accomplished writer covering national and international politics. This is his first book, published in 1988. It’s about his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo from 1982-1984. It’s a nation of seven million very poor people. When Packer was there, the country was transitioning from a republic with temporary military… [Read More]
