===Today is the 29th anniversary of the great Chicago Flood.===
Thanks for bringing this up. Makes me remember one of my role models, John LaPlante who Daley made to take the fall for issuing the permit for the pilings. We lost John just over a year ago, one of the first COVID-19 victims.
Did anyone else see Adam Kinzinger’s tweet last night referring to the GOP as the “dads” and Democrats as “moms”? And then how he added that dems/moms are trying to buy your love and GOP/dads are hitting the sauce? Didn’t take long to show his true colors.
I remember when I was a kid, there was a river maybe around Sullivan that was a turtle spawning site. Every year you’d see hundreds of baby turtles swimming around. To be honest, I don’t know what kind of turtles these were (for all I know snappers) but they were sure fun to watch.
- Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 8:38 am:
Today is the 29th anniversary of the great Chicago Flood.
- DuPage Dave - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 9:03 am:
Cheryl44- I was one of the lucky workers sent home from JRTC that day (at full pay)… a beautiful sunny day as I recall.
- @misterjayem - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 9:34 am:
Sports, amirite??
– MrJM
- thechampaignlife - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 9:36 am:
To the cartoon: This cuts far too close to the truth.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 10:23 am:
David Bowie had the “intertubes” right from jump street.
The best cartoons show us the farce some think is normal, and put that context in a bright light.
- DownSouth - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 10:45 am:
Southern Illinois is especially gorgeous right now! Wildflowers, spring gobblers strutting, crappie spawning, and of course morels popping!
Even if you aren’t a hiker, hunter, or angler - there are such beautiful drives all over down here in the southern 16!
Now if DNR could just clean up the mess in the new camping reservation and license and permitting software - it would just be fantastic.
- Proud Sucker - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 12:07 pm:
===Today is the 29th anniversary of the great Chicago Flood.===
Thanks for bringing this up. Makes me remember one of my role models, John LaPlante who Daley made to take the fall for issuing the permit for the pilings. We lost John just over a year ago, one of the first COVID-19 victims.
- Unimpressed - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 12:08 pm:
Did anyone else see Adam Kinzinger’s tweet last night referring to the GOP as the “dads” and Democrats as “moms”? And then how he added that dems/moms are trying to buy your love and GOP/dads are hitting the sauce? Didn’t take long to show his true colors.
- cermak_rd - Tuesday, Apr 13, 21 @ 12:30 pm:
DownSouth,
I remember when I was a kid, there was a river maybe around Sullivan that was a turtle spawning site. Every year you’d see hundreds of baby turtles swimming around. To be honest, I don’t know what kind of turtles these were (for all I know snappers) but they were sure fun to watch.