How It Would Have Ended In Real Life: Atlas Shrugged

From the New York Times and Michael Clevenger, Courier-Journal via Associated Press

Chemical Train de-rails

On his Blog, Adam Lee paints a grim face on the misdeeds and consequences of reckless billionaires and business moguls by adjusting Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged to end with a starkly real and grotesque image of profit-run-amok.  In the end, Dagny Taggert was wrong (written by Lawfair on DeviantArt).

A Look at Uptown 40 Years Ago, Bob Rehak Revisits

View from West Montrose in Uptown, Looking South

Bob Rehak, and former resident of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood shared his story last Thursday at the Uptown Public Library on Buena.  He notes that the Uptown of his past was not the Uptown of today.  In Bob's own words he says that "[he] was shocked by how much Uptown today has improved compared to what it was in the mid-1970s."  His book Uptown: Portrait of a Chicago Neighborhood In the mid-1970's is available on Amazon for those interested in learning more.