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Nuclear Chicago

By Ed Schwartz

Some will never get over the shock of learning that the U.S. Army missile sites at Belmont Harbor and Jackson Park were nuclear-equipped during the Cold War without the civilian population and the local government knowing. Just thinking of all the times I played or passed by both locations gives me shivers.
The A-bombs were not like “Fat Man and Little Boy” from WWII fame. These were nuclear-tipped missiles. When they conducted on site drills and raised missiles to firing positions those nukes were there, right out in the open, but we just didn’t know. This revelation is one of the most disturbing reports of government lying I have ever heard.

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Posted on September 11, 2007

Chicagoetry: I Was Watching Jim Miklaszewski

By J.J. Tindall

I WAS WATCHING JIM MIKLASZEWSKI
I was watching Jim Miklaszewski when the plane
hit the Pentagon. I did not yet know that my friend
Dan was killed. Rod would call
with that “news” the following day. Our hilarious, radical, knucklehead
high-school buddy had become Commander of Naval Intelligence

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Posted on September 11, 2007

Pool Daze: No Lifeguard on Duty

By Leigh Novak

Previously: “Pool Daze: It Happened One Summer.”
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“That sounded like a pool falling!” observed Joanne Kimzante, an almost-daily poolie who never once lived in the pool’s apartment complex. Joanne was referring to one of the many construction clanks and bangs that sounded during Chicago summer days; although this particular noise, in my ears’ opinion, was no different than any other to occur that morning. Joanne’s comment was just one of the batty remarks I heard pass her vampiric mouth in all the summers of her polluting our pool.

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Posted on September 5, 2007

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