A hitch in the plan
This guest essay appeared in Illinois Issues in 2006, shortly after the consolidation of the two regional agencies in Chicago. I argued that the underlying division remained and that regional planning would not become truly effective until there was internal...Thoughts on farmland
I was a young staff planner at NIPC working on the regional plan when, in winter 2003, I went up to McHenry County and asked the Farm Bureau to put a public meeting together to talk about farmland. We assembled a large group for that meeting, which occurred on a...
Local and sacred
In late 2004 I received a Journalism Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund. Due to work responsibilities, however, I couldn’t leave until a couple years later. In autumn ’06 I traversed six European countries in search of local food, visiting farm...
The Polish pâtisserie
I met Dobra Bielinski in a history colloquium at UIC and saw she is a person of many talents. After graduate history studies she opened a bakery. She is proprietress of my now favorite confectionery Delightful Pastries on W. Lawrence Ave. We had lunch one day and she...Books
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