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Chicago
is telling me to take my time. In restaurants the food comes slow. Some things are the same wherever you go. The Edgewater neighborhood is ethnically and economic-ally mixed. When a city is populated by immigrants, it grows cosmopolitan. Even so, there are signs of encroachment-- the showroom of scale model condo complex with "mixed use" retail and services below. Mixed use is what the neighborhood already was, do we need another bleached blonde boob job strip mall? Yoga Now[!] and this painless periodontist, where the accidental background of spikes, fangs, and angry eyebrows reveals a truth buried just beneath the surface trying to claw its way out. |