* Subscribers know that I’m shutting everything down for a few days to attend a family funeral. Someone passing in a no-passing zone slammed head-on into my niece’s car. My niece is out of the hospital, but her husband and two-year-old daughter were both killed…

Please keep my niece in your thoughts.

* While I’m gone, you can head to Illinoize…

I’ll crank the blog back up on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Not sure yet.

No video. I’m too depressed.

*** UPDATE *** Thanks for all the kind e-mails, text messages, faxes and phone calls about my family’s tragedy. The funeral ordeal was one of the saddest experiences of my life. But your lovely sentiments helped lift my spirits, so many thanks.

*** UPDATE 2 *** We’re all gonna miss her…

On behalf of her family and friends, I am saddened to report that former State Senator Adeline J. Geo-Karis passed away Sunday evening, February 10, 2008, of natural causes, at Glenbrook Hospital.

Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced shortly.

For further information, please contact:

Louis G. Atsaves
atsaves@aol.com
847-401-1674

You can read more here.