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Cast Your Vote

I got up and went to my polling place this morning on Oak Park, Illinois, and cast my votes in the Republican Primary. I used one of the newer “computer” voting machines. I was voter #1 on my machine, in … Continue reading

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Thank You, Peter Fitzgerald!

One of the best things that has happened in Illinois politics in recent history was the election of Peter Fitzgerald to the US Senate in 1998, defeating the Democrat incumbent Carol Mosley Braun. Peter was an Illinois GOP political outsider … Continue reading

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Galena Getaway!

Back in the years when I was a full-time freelance illustrator, a friend of mine named Dwight Nelson (a product packaging design manager for Quaker) referred me to Connie Koralik, who became my artist rep and a friend. Some years … Continue reading

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Intelligent Design in Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park is the community where I live and we have 2 local weekly newspapers. On October 26th, 2005 the Wednesday Journal ran an open letter from a local resident, which read: An open letter to my religious brethren on … Continue reading

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