Our "good" governor, Pat Quinn, went politicking this weekend at Chicago's Apostolic Church of God.He compared raising the income tax to being the Good Samaritan, which totally doesn't make any sense, but what I want to know is how he, as a politician, can go politicking in a church like that. For all the times that there are rumblings about ( Read more... )

Over the last little bit, I've been taking my camera out with me more often, and one of the things that is just fascinating is the number of churches in Chicago. Most of the churches around here are a testament to a time in Chicago long past - for example, just in the few streets around where I grew up (10 minute walk, tops, to hit all of them), ( Read more... )