Anniversary!!!

Thank you for subscribing, reading, commenting, and offering input or even tips on what's going on in your neighborhoods. Well I haven't had many but I look forward to more.

One lady who contacted this blog, a very special reader, well aside from the Alderman/Committeeman of course offering to issue flyers for this blog. I would like to do more of that to really advertise this blog. That just means that I have to be either very creative or learn some graphic design (i.e. photoshop).

All the same, I'm looking forward to year two. In year two I expect this blog to have more locally centered stories. I especially want to look at things in the neighborhood that deserves an upgrade.

These issues might have the added effect of making this part of town a desirable place to live. We should focus on local business activity, Chatham is said to be home to many black-owned businesses. What would keep this ward a leader in entrepreneurial activity?

Then there's crime. What can be done to make this ward a safer ward? Even those parts of the ward which might be seen as less desirable, but they deserve a solution to the issues of crime as well.

Also education. What can we do to make our schools better schools in the ward? To be sure I've attended school in the ward for most of my young life. I know what it's like to attend these schools, but I'm out of the loop as far as how those schools are doing. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on how such schools as Shedd, Harlan, Gillespie, McDade, or Dixon are doing. Of course I didn't name all the schools, but I would like a progress report on them all. Even the private schools in the ward or even the day cares or preschools.

I especially can tell you about Harlan. I've been out of Harlan for years and I still hear comments about Harlan's reputation. It's not a flattering reputation, but I would like to see that change. In fact it would be nice if instead of having parents in the ward send their kids across the city to a better high school, perhaps there can be a magnet program high school in this ward. Thus kids can go to a good school in this neighborhood.

These are only some future ideas, but I'm sure if you read this blog, many of you will come up with better subjects for future posts. I want to hear from you. The e-mail hasn't changed, and I did change the template and the e-mail address has been effective obliterated. I'll get everything back up to speed here.

I want to know what you the reader have in mind and I thank you once again for reading.

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