Chicago Litter Buggin'
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boardupking
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The whole city is like that. Other than a few neighborhoods, there's trash like that everywhere in Chicago.
- 2 years ago
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boardupking
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milc
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Litter is in the eye of the beholder.
I appreciate you putting your time and effort where your mouth is. Here is piece that appropriates litter and recycled materials to educate and create called the pinata factory. Two of the three factory spaces are located in Humboldt Park just a couple blocks from where you were at.Welcome to the neighborhood I've lived here for almost ten years and work with an org called Co-op Image based out of Humboldt. Co-op Image does some community garden work. We have done work in the past with Growing Pride Humboldt Park garden club often works directly with the Park District to help maintain the park (mainly in the warmer months though)
Stop by the Corner Art Center sometime 2658 W Evergreen and visit (even if it is packed with kids). .
- 2 years ago
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milc
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liketoviewwithyou
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Viewing your point of view was quite a current connection for me. I have been perplexed about the behavioral concept of littering for some time now. I was thinking about putting something together for current as of late so I mentioned my concerns to locals with little or no concern for this as an issue. So you made a real (for me) needed connection for a social ill that seems to be taken for granted.
My soul searching question I want to ask folks in my town (Philadelphia,PA) is why do you litter?
I am encouraged to go forward and see what happens
Thank you, I needed to hear your point of view! - 3 years ago
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liketoviewwithyou
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redx
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LOL Humboldt Park. For anyone that knows the area, it's not the best of neighborhoods :-P. Just south of there is Garfield Park which is notorious for crime and gang/drug activity. Humboldt Park is great if your moving to the city and you need a place for dirt cheap rent. You get what you pay for. Like someone else said, they compared it to Central Park in NYC. Not even close! Go to Millennium Park in the loop or even Grant Park you will see a huge difference. Central Park is more on the comparison level of Millennium or Grant Park. Face it dude, you live in a depressed area. But good for you for trying to make a difference!
- 3 years ago
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redx
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photosynthesist
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Come to bright New Mexico! It's many times worse here..probably because the populace wants to emulate everybody who's anybody and wolfs down whatevers wrapped up or bottled and flippantly flicks out their litter (image is everything...Jon Benet Ramsey would say). Thanks capitalism and image...it's all coming back to me LITTERally.
- 3 years ago
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photosynthesist
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abugarwa
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nice piece. I've often thought the same thing-- littering as a crime fits well into the framework of the "broken windows" theory: the nastier and more garbage-strewn a community is, the less folks care about the community and what happens there, which leads to more littering, which leads to... Its a cycle.
One thing: the author/creator compares Humboldt Park in Chicago to Central Park in NYC. Hardly a valid comparison. Humboldt Park probably receives 1/100000th the visitors, attention, and tourism revenue that Central Park does/generates. When $$$ is involved, all of a sudden the trash disappears, like magic!
- 3 years ago
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abugarwa
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judiestar
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Sweet. I grew up in this hood. Its still a filthy mess. The people in this area and other low-income areas are not educated on polluton and so forth. It should be incorporated into elementary school curriculum. If the kids do it, they'll grow up doing it, and it will be passed on to everyone.
- 3 years ago
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judiestar
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zack
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Sad, Sad, Sad. Completely Irresponsible. Great message....
- 3 years ago
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zack
