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By The U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Fraud Scheme: Investment Fraud
Division: Chicago
Suspect: “A very savvy confidence man.”
Problem: “The truth is, in this case, there was no business.”
Conclusion: “We followed our suspect and found him in Las Vegas. He was an avid gambler, and that’s what he was doing with a lot of the money.”
Posted on May 1, 2018
By Scott Gordon/WisContext
Two centuries of urbanization and industrialization around the Great Lakes have often hinged on tension among those who’ve desired their extraordinary supplies of fresh water.
The lakes and the surrounding watershed contain nearly one-fifth of the surface freshwater on Earth, and currently about 40 million people in the United States and Canada use their waters.
The eight Great Lakes states – Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec collectively form a $4.7 trillion economy, the fourth-largest in the world. It’s no wonder that people across North America and around the globe want in on that water.
Posted on April 24, 2018
By J.J. Tindall
Happy
Two weeks ago
I was happy
For about 10 minutes!
It was really cool and
Now the insomniac sky
Glows with light pollution
Reflecting off the low, wet
Posted on April 19, 2018
By Busch
“Wow, da ist ja ein Schneemann in dem Spiel, aber es ist so warm, warum schmilzt er nicht in Chicago? Der Winter ist schon längst vorbei!”
Posted on April 11, 2018
By Derek H. Alderman/The Conversation
More than 1,000 streets in the world bear the name of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
At least 955 of those streets can be found in the U.S. They’re in 41 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Martin Luther King streets cross a diversity of neighborhoods – rural and urban, residential and commercial, large and small. The range of these named streets across the country makes it seem that remembering and memorializing King was inevitable.
Yet, for some communities, the drive to name public spaces in King’s name has taken years as well as heated debates, boycotts, petition drives, marches and even litigation
Posted on April 9, 2018
By J.J. Tindall
Bite
I eat fear every day. Fat with it.
I bike through cold rain
With worn down brakes, worried
For wipeouts, for drivers plowing
Through yellow arrows across Harlem Avenue,
Stray dogs, service truck blind spots, potholes,
Posted on April 5, 2018
By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service
Good Foods Group, a Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin establishment, is recalling approximately 130 pounds of fully cooked ready-to-eat curry chicken salad products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday.
The products contain tree nuts, specifically cashews, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label.
The ready-to-eat curry chicken salad items were produced on March 27, 2018. The following products are subject to recall:
Posted on April 4, 2018
By J.J. Tindall
Death in Chicago
God died and
I started to lie:
Little white ones, at first,
And then the compunction escalated.
Like: it wasn’t God but
My mother
Who died.
Posted on March 26, 2018
