UIC, the epitome of the word DRAB

UIC I think looks like a place where your soul would be sucked out of your body. The buildings such as the halls and the UH should be torn down and renovated. The designs of the glass windows and huge chunks of concrete makes those buildings look like place where people can go in...but never come out. One big improvement I have witnessed is the construction of the SRC (Student Recreational Center.) I would also say the new dorm buildings, but I haven't been in there myself. The SRC makes the PEB (Physical Education Building) look like it came from the stone ages. Also, there is the creation of the building next to Lincoln hall (but I usually see the fire alarm light blinking; is it suppose to happen like that?) The landscape around it was also recently put in, but that is only like %2 of what the campus is. Lewis University is a school that is beautiful. It looks more of a place where you can enjoy walking on campus, instead of just hurriedly walking to your next class. Washrooms are pretty dirty and smelly, which leads to unsannitary breeding grounds for bacteria and disease. Unfortunately some people never learned how to take a number 2.

Land Use and Housing

I never new what this meant until we talked about in class. I check out the website pertaining to this and it was pretty cơl to "kind" of understand why your neighborhơd was built there and what it was meant for.

Chicken Fever!

I'm a big fan of chicken, especially fried chicken and sauced up chicken. Three place that I visit a lot for my fix. One, the basic fried chicken. Popeyes is a good supply for my fix for the longest time until I found out about a small chain near and around Humboldt Park called Best Sub. Unfortunately I don't live around this area so I can get it usually when I'm around my friend's house. Don't get me wrong about Popeyes. Their chicken is delicious and cheap but I don;t think anyone can beat Best Subs chicken or it's cost. For $3.25, you get two jumbo legs, a wing (I'm salvating right now), a slab of garlic bread, and some fries. It's a heart attack waiting to happen if you eat it but it's so good...and cheap! The one that I like to go to is on Central and Fullerton becuase it's near my friend's house compared to the other ones.
Another chicken place I enjoy is on Lawrence and Ainslie. It's called Great Seas. It's a Chinese restaurant but is known for the chicken that they serve. It's sort of like wings but they are shaped in a wierd way. Some are legs, while the wings, they have removed one of the bones and cut the lower part off to make it look like a drumstick. The sauce is the key component to this dish. It is syrupy, sweet, and very spicy. In truth, a batch of about 19 pieces is $12.00, and I probably have invested about $1,500 solely on chicken for the past 4 years.

Racial Resurgence

I have always liked the diversity displayed in Chicago. I went to high school at Northside Prep and the student body and faculty there was quite diverse. It seems, however, that there is a racial resurgence recently. Most people have heard of the Jena 6 case and because Chicago is so diverse I would like to touch on this important topic. I think it is so ugly and terrible to be so demeaning and inconsiderate to another human being, despite whatever differences in skin color or whatever. And to use nooses to intimidate these minority individuals is so disrespectful and scary. The persons who commit these terrible acts must have terrible hate in their hearts to do something so extreme. And a lot of cases are popping up after this Jena 6 case. Some may just be copy cats carried out by ignorant teenagers who do not know truly the symbolic nature of the scenario, but other cases are real and violent in their very nature. I'm not sure of which specific cases or whether any took place in our very own Chicago, but minorities are coming to work to find nooses hanging over their things. I've read an African American police chief deputy being a victim, a sailor, etc. I thought that these acts of ignorances were for the most part gone (although I know it still exists, and racism may never actually go away entirely) and that intelligent beings were replacing them, but this resurgence in racism is proving otherwise. I really hope Chicagoans are not so ignorant to sink to intimidating blacks and other minorities. This city is so diverse that such acts would have an enormous impact, not to say that such acts wouldn't have of similar impact in any other city.