#Northwest Suburbs of Chicago :

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[danishprince]

Cubs fan?

the ONLY time i've consciously been "homesick" in my life was in fact during the 2016 world series, when my entire hometown was experiencing full-blown cubs fever and i was stuck in kentucky surrounded by cleveland fans. i'm not much of a sports person but the chicago cubs are My Baseball Team for sure

[deejay-the-first]

Great Room Kitchen Inspiration for a sizable, open-concept, transitional l-shaped kitchen remodel with granite countertops, shaker cabinets, light wood cabinets, black backsplash, stone slab backsplash, and stainless steel appliances

[transit-fag]

what is your favorite northwest suburb of chicago

Seattle

[morbidology]

Laurie Dann led an unassuming childhood, growing up in an affluent northern suburb of Chicago. She was remembered as being somewhat awkward and lacking in confidence. It's believed that’s why she completely altered her face with plastic surgery at quite a young age.

She attended the University of Arizona for several years but never graduated. While working as a cocktail waitress at Green Acres Country Club, she met Russell Dann, the son of a wealthy family. The duo were inseparable and settled down and got married in September of 1982. They moved into a large mansion - something that had always been a dream of Laurie.

Shortly thereafter, Russell began to notice some bizarre quirks about his new wife. For example, she would keep her makeup in the microwave, would throw money into the back seat of her car, and would put clothes away while they were still soaking wet. While the couple remained together for several years, Laurie’s quirks began to worsen and worsen.

Eventually, she completely stopped leaving the house and refused to cook or clean up after herself. The relationship was doomed but it reached calamitous heights in September of 1986. Police received a phone call from Russell. Somebody had stabbed him with an ice-pick while he slept and he was certain it was Laurie. In fact, a store clerk would come forward to say Laurie had indeed purchased an ice-pick just days previously. The ice-pick missed his heart by just an inch.

Considering Russel was asleep and didn’t see his attacker, the charges against Laurie were dropped. The couple divorced shortly afterwards. As the divorce was underway, Laurie’s ex-boyfriend from five years previously started to receive threatening phone calls from Laurie in which she claimed she was pregnant with his child. The harassment finally ended when his lawyer contacted her parents.

Laurie moved from the marital home and decided she wanted to become a babysitter but this quickly failed when she was accused of stealing from her client’s homes and slashing up their sofas, rugs, and curtains. Following this failed business idea, she moved into a dorm room on the northwest campus. This too fell apart when Laurie starred to hide rotten meat inside furniture as well as hiding rubbish in other student’s rooms.

In January of 1988, she moved to a dorm in Madison, Wisconsin, where she became known as “elevator lady.” Students recalled her riding up and down in the elevator all day long. Once again, she started to leave rotten meat around the dorm and would often be seen stark naked in the communal areas. A month after moving in, a dorm room was set alight. Many believed Laurie had caused the fire intentionally but with no evidence, she was never charged.

By now, Laurie’s sanity had completely unraveled and nobody thought to get her more suitable professional help. After threatening a fellow student and slashing his clothing, Laurie baked buns and injected them with arsenic. She sent these laced treats to several frat houses and homes in the area before making her way to the home of a former babysitting client, asking if she could take their kids to the local fair. She gave the two children poisoned milk. Thankfully, they threw it out after saying it tasted strange. The arsenic in the laced treats she had sent out was so diluted that it caused no damage.

From here, Laurie went to a local daycare and tried to set it on fire before returning to the former clients home which she then set on fire. They were lucky enough to escape out of a smashed window. By the time the family escaped, Laurie was en route to Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Armed with two handguns, Laurie started shooting indiscriminately as soon as she entered the building. She shot and killed 8-year-old Nicholas Corwin before critically wounding another five.

Laurie ripped off the bloody shorts she was wearing and tied a plastic bag around her waist. After fleeing the school, she crashed her car into a tree and then broke into the home of Ruth and Phillip Andrews. Laurie held the terrified family hostage for six hours, claiming she had shot and killed her rapist and was now on the run from the police. Phillip grabbed the gun from Laurie as his family escaped. During the scuffle, he was shot in the chest but managed to stagger into the garden.

Alone in the Andrews home, Laurie shot herself dead.

[beardedmrbean]

Attention residents of the Northwest suburbs: A caracal that had recently been on the loose in a neighborhood has officially been captured, nearly 24 hours after officials warned residents of the exotic cat in the area.

The large cat -- a caracal -- was located Tuesday morning in Hoffman Estates under the deck of a residence, the police department said. Cell phone video moments after the capture showed at least six officers handling a large cage, with the caracal inside quickly jumping from side to side.

Video and photos from the aftermath shows the tan cat laying quietly in the large cage with a blanket draped over it, in the flatbed of a pickup truck.

"He's cute, isn't he?" a voice can be heard saying in the background.

The Hoffman Estates Police Department said officers assisted with the capture of the cat, which was then "taken into custody."

"The cat was hiding under a resident's deck and is unharmed," the update, posted to Facebook said. The update went on to say that employees of The Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat in Sharon, Wisconsin were headed to the scene to pick up the cat, "where we are sure he will have a healthy and happy life far away from Hoffman Estates."

According to the Village of Hoffman Estates, the caracal had recently been spotted in the area of Della Drive and the Hilldale Golf Course. The police department said it was "unknown" where the large cat came from.

"The village is currently working with local and federal agencies for proper removal," a Monday Facebook post from the police department said, 20 hours before the capture. "We ask that you do not attempt to feed this animal."

Caracals are endangered species, and are native to Africa and Asia. They are not typically seen in the United States, according to the San Diego Zoo, though some individuals keep them as pets.  

Caracals on average weigh between 20-to-40 pounds, according to officials. They generally are nocturnal animals, preying upon small mammals and birds.

"If you come across this animal, please use caution," police continued in the Facebook post, which had garnered hundreds of comments. "If anyone knows the whereabouts or owner of this animal, please call 911."

[themarcheschronicle]

Setting/Premise

Note: I already asked my players not to follow the blog, but this post will get into spoilers.

The Northwest suburbs of Chicago, 2025 (but a 2025 without the current extent of the political bullshit. While there will be localized bigotry, I don't find "fighting a national environment where PCs are losing rights" a fun thing. This game is something of an escape from real world shit.)

Here's the thing, the Chicago Consilium is in Chicago. That's where the center of power is. That's where Mages Make Their Names, Pentacle and Seers alike. But these six happened to Awaken out in what is an area of Chicago's responsibility, but it's kind of a trek to get out there! So, like, the PCs have mentors, but if they want to see them, they're going to be driving in or taking the Metra--the game is vaguely centered on the UP-NW Metra line, from about Des Plaines to Palatine or Barrington, though Shiva lives in Buffalo Grove, which is on the UP-N line. (It was that or Skokie, and that was a bit further southeast than I wanted to work).

(Myself and two of the players live around here. They've promised not to rumble me when I fuck with geography, like when I make forest preserves bigger enough for, say, werewolf packs.)

Anyway, it's kind of the Consilium's hope that this group will support one another out here, while everyone is learning and growing. They're not a cadre yet, but they've all gotten introduced and have one another's phone numbers. And their mentors all have cadres of their own, who could, in theory, be called in if Supporting Fire is needed.

Which it might be, because some of the oldest mages in Chicago left a pool of abyssal taint, like a bunch of tanks of benzene underground, in the area where the Player Characters live and work. And they haven't told the new kids--or even members of their own cadres--yet.

This is going to be a game focused on the war against the Abyss. That isn't to say there won't be Seers, Banishers, Hunters, etc. But most of the Seers focus on Chicago itself. Hunters will need reason to turn their attention to these small fries. The primary antagonizing force is going to be Abyssal Intrusions, Scelesti, Acamoth and Gulmoth. Which is something @maquekenzie did in a past game I played in, and I actually reached out for some tips while designing this game.

So, will the new mages be able to survive on the border marches?

[mutualcombat]

i live in the northwest suburbs of chicago what the fuck is happening

[singularfortean]

An odd set of winged creature sightings out of Chicago.

[crochetysquare]

I’m getting ready for this, btw! If you live in or around the Northwest Chicago suburbs, you should consider checking it out!

[emergencyplumbingil]

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[rjzimmerman]

This makes our family nervous. We live in the near western suburbs, and don't expect any trouble in our town or the immediately surrounding area. But as long-term Chicago residents, and with Chicago as our "core," we are concerned. Frankly, depending on how the trump mafia approaches this, I smell the potential for big trouble in Chicago, particularly in the neighborhoods I suspect are being targeted. I think many of you appreciate that Chicagoans, regardless of race or ethnicity, are not timid. The Chicago Police Department has already said that it will follow applicable local and state law and that the Chicago police are not going to cooperate, and also won't interfere. We are planning on staying cocooned in our house next Tuesday and the days after that, and avoiding the mess. (Besides, it's going to be cold as crap.)

The Truthout story suggests that this move on Tuesday in Chicago is more in the nature of a PR-generating event, telling the US that trump and his shit have arrived and are in charge.

Excerpt from this story from Truthout:

Citing four unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reported��late Friday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration intends to start delivering on his long-promised mass deportations with “a large-scale immigration raid” in Chicago, Illinois that “is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week.”

“The Trump team intends to target immigrants in the country illegally with criminal backgrounds — many of whose offenses, like driving violations, made them too minor for the Biden administration to pursue,” according to the newspaper. “But, the people cautioned, if anyone else in the country illegally is present during an arrest, they will be taken, too.”

After considering which “sanctuary cities” to target, “they settled on Chicago both because of the large number of immigrants who could be possible targets and because of the Trump team’s high-profile feud with the city’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson,” the Journal detailed. “Large immigrant centers, such as New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and Miami, are also in the incoming administration’s sights, and more targeted raids could come.”

The Trump transition team, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and representatives for Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker did not respond to the paper’s request for comment, but the Democratic governor on Saturday circulated “know your rights” resources from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights on his social media accounts and pledged to “protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.”

Under the Welcoming City Ordinance, the Chicago Police Department does not document immigration status or share information with federal immigration authorities. WGN9 pointed out that “Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Park District, and Community Colleges of Chicago have all been directed not to allow ICE access into any of its buildings.”

According to The New York Times, which spoke with two unnamed sources and obtained related correspondence, “hundreds of agents were asked to volunteer” for ICE’s “Operation Safeguard,” and the agency plans to send roughly 150 agents to Chicago.

Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming ” border czar” and former acting director of ICE, previewed the administration’s targeting of the Illinois city while attending a Northwest Side GOP holiday party last month, telling other attendees that “Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” and if Johnson “doesn’t want to help, get the hell out of the way.”

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[me3dia]

In 1991, my sophomore year in high school, a friend's parents opened the first espresso shop in our town in the northwest suburbs of Chicago: Yvette's Café (later renamed Ivéta after a dumb legal dispute). My friends and I were already hanging out in Denny's and other diners on weekend nights, but Yvette's immediately became central to our social lives. It was such a magnet for teens and young adults that on a Saturday in the summer, there might be 30-40 people lounging on the patio, with more inside.

There were other places teens hung out — the mall, ice cream parlors, bowling alleys and movie theaters — but you had to spend money if you wanted to be there for very long. At a coffee shop or a diner, you just needed a couple bucks amongst the group in order to claim a table for hours. And our parents actually encouraged it, do some degree anyway, because at least they knew we were somewhere safe and not getting into trouble. I was at Yvette's so much, if my mom didn't know where I was, she would call there first.