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I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

December 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Cathay Pacific is an airline I’d never heard of til I saw this ad at the Clark & Lake Blue Line station. Creepy!

CTA’s Renew Crew is at the California Blue Line

September 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments

A couple days ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA President Forrest Claypool announced a new “Station Renewal Initiative.” Since the day of the announcement, crews have been in the station that I use daily, the California Blue Line.

I’ve noticed they’ve been painting a lot of the metal rails in the station. The CTA Station Renewal web page says they’ll also be power washing walls, floors, stairs and ceilings; repainting painted surfaces; making lighting improvements; removing graffiti; cleaning gutters and drains; replacing outdated or damaged signage and replacing windbreaks. The California Blue Line station has been open since 1895 and honestly, it looks like it. It’s not falling to pieces, there’s not a lot of graffiti, but it definitely could use some TLC.

I hope they take some before and after photos like they did for the Logan Square Blue Line clean up, one stop north of the California station.

Hold on to Your Children

September 18th, 2011 · No Comments

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Logan Square Neighborhood Walk: California Avenue

July 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

One day a few months ago, I was wanting to go for a walk, but wanting to go somewhere new. I used to do these “neighborhood walks” and post photos on this site, but haven’t done it forever. So, I decided that maybe over the course of this summer I will try to walk Logan Square. When you look up Logan Square boundaries, people have varying opinions. For this exercise, I’m going to go with these boundaries for the neighborhood: Diversey to the north, Western to the east, Armitage to the south and Pulaski to the West. However you classify it, the neighborhood is HUGE. So, I think if I do this I’ll have to break it up into a bunch of chunks. As the summer has progressed I haven’t done a great job keeping up on this project, but I’ll keep trying. Here are my photos from my walk on California Avenue from Armitage to Diversey.

Los Arista Food & Liquors

A strip mall in Logan Square. The Papa John’s is new this year.

Zen Salon for Men

Condo building.

Salem Evangelical Free Church

Ronny’s

More Condos

Mandy’s Cleaners

For Sale

14th District Police Department

Cafeteria de Pancho

Little Mel’s

This place is going to be Masada’s (Middle Eastern). It’s been under construction since we moved to Logan Square, but seems to actually be making progress now. I like the look.