Chicago News Report: A woman's purse was snatched on the 2200 block of West Morse Avenue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood.
Blognotes: Oh, by the way. I never got around to mentioning... this is now my 7th year of blogging. It started humbly in the fall of 2004. I thought in all the celebration we should look back at the Broken Heart's most famous purse snatching story.
I filled up THREE 13 gallon kitchen garbage bags with the usual trash on wayne/morse then down farwell west to greenview and back to morse and back around.
I have specific shoes for this, since dog crap is unavoidable, so i have my litter/dogcrap shoes.
I also filled up a big 30 gallon Black garbage bag with litter on wayne headed toward pratt on the psych facility side and got about half the trash from the synagogue vacant lot. Most interesting find was a poor dismembered plastic doll with blue hair in the vacant lot. I think on my next outing I can get the rest of the exsynagogue vacant lot trash up.
Interesting observance of the neigborhood, At the large greenview Common Cup building someone is using the ledge outside their window to keep their sixpack of beer cool.
Well thats it for today. And btw Chip Bagg this has nothing to do with the purse snatching!
Btw also I find the nifty nabbers are a lifesaver. I am able to pickup more trash faster and it saves my back.
At least someone else besides me cleans up after the litter pigs. All it takes is 1%, not even that, to pollute the neighborhood. If five percent pitched in, there'd be little left to view.
Lifting a few pieces of trash is a bit of constructive exercise, even if it's not your waste. The less that is on the ground, the more that are intimidated to drop it anywhere else but a trash bin.
It helps the .02 percent who regularly bring an extra bag or pick it up during the daily dog walk. We can't depend upon Streets and San, alone. I wish more appreciated how a cleaner environment improves people's attitudes and emotions.
I lived in Bridgeport, Gold Coast and Lakeview - this is absolutely the most dirty and littered area I have had the pleasure of living in. I am constantly amazed at the people that throw trash on the ground when they are steps from a trash can. And better yet - the people that throw their home trash in a litter bin - what idiots!!! The Alderman's office told me that's why they can't have more trash cans around - because people fill them with huge trash bags from their homes and they don't have the crews to empty the cans.
Dog poop - I walk my two dogs and I let people have it when I see them not picking up after their dogs. Do the same and maybe some people will stop - I love dogs and not picking up after them is disgusting!!!
Nice to hear another persons perspective on litter lafew. I filled another 30 gallon trash bag with the litter from the synagogue site. Its just about cleaned up. Not much litter there now. It was looking really bad.
I will talk to the aldermans office, because I think the dead brush on the site should be cut up and removed from the site. Thats what encourages people to litter.
And I totally agree, if there isnt alot of trash around people wont have something to add to
I talked with Betsy Vandercook at the Aldermans Office. She agrees. I guess CJE is the Jewish Federation that owns the land. She says that they have been thinking about putting senior housing on the site.
Anyways she had me write her an email discussing the site and the fact I cleaned it up and the fact that in general that area on Pratt has suffered since the extreme neglect of that site.
The site needs to be kept decent, otherwise its blight and invites crime.
Someone I talked to has an idea how to deter people from putting their bags of house trash in the public trash cans. I personally know of people who do this, and a large number of them are middle class and otherwise respectable. They do it so they don't have to be bothered to walk down the back stairs and out their dumpsters. If you chide them for this, you'll usually be told, angrily, to MYODB.
FINE THEM. Somebody I know suggested that 49th Ward Streets & San go through these bags and look for mail with addresses on it... and send a notice of a $200 fine from the city to that address.
I hate seeing our public cans removed, making me carry a tiny piece of trash like a piece of tissue paper or a soda cup clear home to dispose of it, but I can see why the city doesn't want to pay for disposing of everyone's personal home trash. Last summer, SOMEBODY who lives in the condo building at the corner of Sheridan and North Shore put a massive roll of old carpeting out by the public can instead of into his building's dumpster. I know it cost a building money to have an extra haul done to avoid being fined for overflowing dumpsters, but that is what you have the dumpster for.
While this is nowhere near the most dirty and littered ward I've ever seen- take a look at Uptown- we still have a lot of room for improvement.
I'd be happy if people would refrain from throwing their crap on other people's lawns, as well. My building maintenance man is elderly, and keeps our rental building looking absolutely beautiful, just so neighborhood low-lifes can toss trash into our courtyard. The old guy cannot keep up, and neither can we tenants, though we try our best. So at least don't toss your trash onto private lawns, dammit.
Senior housing run by Jewish organizations would be a very good thing for the 1233 W. Pratt lot where the synagogue stood.
It would be nice to see a building comparable to the beautiful senior apartment complex built on Devon a few years ago, go up there. An attractive multifamily building would be a positive addition to the street.
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1/9/11
Litter Update.
I filled up THREE 13 gallon kitchen garbage bags with the usual trash on wayne/morse then down farwell west to greenview and back to morse and back around.
I have specific shoes for this, since dog crap is unavoidable, so i have my litter/dogcrap shoes.
I also filled up a big 30 gallon Black garbage bag with litter on wayne headed toward pratt on the psych facility side and got about half the trash from the synagogue vacant lot. Most interesting find was a poor dismembered plastic doll with blue hair in the vacant lot. I think on my next outing I can get the rest of the exsynagogue vacant lot trash up.
Interesting observance of the neigborhood, At the large greenview Common Cup building someone is using the ledge outside their window to keep their sixpack of beer cool.
Well thats it for today.
And btw Chip Bagg this has nothing to do with the purse snatching!
Btw also I find the nifty nabbers are a lifesaver. I am able to pickup more trash faster and it saves my back.
good one! LOL - thanks for the blog! I keep seeing the signs to elect Joe Moore - how old are they? He looks about 20 years younger!
Yeah that looks like Joe Moore's original campaign picture.
He would look better today if he lost about 50 pounds.
At least someone else besides me cleans up after the litter pigs. All it takes is 1%, not even that, to pollute the neighborhood. If five percent pitched in, there'd be little left to view.
Lifting a few pieces of trash is a bit of constructive exercise, even if it's not your waste. The less that is on the ground, the more that are intimidated to drop it anywhere else but a trash bin.
It helps the .02 percent who regularly bring an extra bag or pick it up during the daily dog walk. We can't depend upon Streets and San, alone. I wish more appreciated how a cleaner environment improves people's attitudes and emotions.
I lived in Bridgeport, Gold Coast and Lakeview - this is absolutely the most dirty and littered area I have had the pleasure of living in. I am constantly amazed at the people that throw trash on the ground when they are steps from a trash can. And better yet - the people that throw their home trash in a litter bin - what idiots!!! The Alderman's office told me that's why they can't have more trash cans around - because people fill them with huge trash bags from their homes and they don't have the crews to empty the cans.
Dog poop - I walk my two dogs and I let people have it when I see them not picking up after their dogs. Do the same and maybe some people will stop - I love dogs and not picking up after them is disgusting!!!
1/10/11
Nice to hear another persons perspective on litter lafew.
I filled another 30 gallon trash bag with the litter from the synagogue site. Its just about cleaned up. Not much litter there now. It was looking really bad.
I will talk to the aldermans office, because I think the dead brush on the site should be cut up and removed from the site. Thats what encourages people to litter.
And I totally agree, if there isnt alot of trash around people wont have something to add to
1/10/11
I talked with Betsy Vandercook at the Aldermans Office.
She agrees. I guess CJE is the Jewish Federation that owns the land. She says that they have been thinking about putting senior housing on the site.
Anyways she had me write her an email discussing the site and the fact I cleaned it up and the fact that in general that area on Pratt has suffered since the extreme neglect of that site.
The site needs to be kept decent, otherwise its blight and invites crime.
Someone I talked to has an idea how to deter people from putting their bags of house trash in the public trash cans. I personally know of people who do this, and a large number of them are middle class and otherwise respectable. They do it so they don't have to be bothered to walk down the back stairs and out their dumpsters. If you chide them for this, you'll usually be told, angrily, to MYODB.
FINE THEM. Somebody I know suggested that 49th Ward Streets & San go through these bags and look for mail with addresses on it... and send a notice of a $200 fine from the city to that address.
I hate seeing our public cans removed, making me carry a tiny piece of trash like a piece of tissue paper or a soda cup clear home to dispose of it, but I can see why the city doesn't want to pay for disposing of everyone's personal home trash. Last summer, SOMEBODY who lives in the condo building at the corner of Sheridan and North Shore put a massive roll of old carpeting out by the public can instead of into his building's dumpster. I know it cost a building money to have an extra haul done to avoid being fined for overflowing dumpsters, but that is what you have the dumpster for.
While this is nowhere near the most dirty and littered ward I've ever seen- take a look at Uptown- we still have a lot of room for improvement.
I'd be happy if people would refrain from throwing their crap on other people's lawns, as well. My building maintenance man is elderly, and keeps our rental building looking absolutely beautiful, just so neighborhood low-lifes can toss trash into our courtyard. The old guy cannot keep up, and neither can we tenants, though we try our best. So at least don't toss your trash onto private lawns, dammit.
Senior housing run by Jewish organizations would be a very good thing for the 1233 W. Pratt lot where the synagogue stood.
It would be nice to see a building comparable to the beautiful senior apartment complex built on Devon a few years ago, go up there. An attractive multifamily building would be a positive addition to the street.
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