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Last Updated: 12/17/2009

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City: Chicago
State: Illinois
Country: US
Signup Date: 9/19/2006

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Monday, June 02, 2008 

Current mood:  inspired
Category: Life
Living in the Midwest in " small town america " how is it that all we (United States) are becoming is a service industry nation.... How will we survive on Chili's Applebee's Friday's alone ( not to be hypocritical because I do go on occasion )...... A service industry feeding a service industry? It just seems like at some point this will cause are country to become more dependent, lazy, and apathetic.... maybe the "LOST" island doesn't seem like such a bad place. We lost a huge company this year ( Rockford Products ).... a lot of jobs lost.... and then we decided to turn down a casino.... though I'm not the biggest fan.... it would have created a lot of jobs, and given our town a lot of tax gains and breaks. A dichotomy of America's need to reinvent!! I know BORING.... it has just been a observation of late.

xoxo,

Miles
7:45 PM
 
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annie
Annie Darek

 
I don't know if you are familiar with this album, it's back from the "doctor" era and you would have been ten or something. But, I've always connected with the lyrics.
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I think the lyrics are, at least, somewhat relevant. Yep.

 
Posted by annie on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 2:52 AM
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Jeff Something

 
Man, oh man! I have been observing--and victimized--by this same effect for my whole life here in beautiful Rock Vegas, but the job migration began even before I was born. It started when the furniture and cabinet manufacturers moved to the Carolinas in the late 40s and 50s.


What do we replace it with? Well we have to make our community attractive. I suggested in a Rock River Times column (Talk about a small audience!) that we build a four-year university. I didn't get much response though. Rockford really screwed up when the right-wing city fathers fought NIUs attempt to move here in the late fifties.


I guess we are destined to become a "Do you want fries with that?" kind of city.

 
Posted by Jeff Something on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 10:25 PM
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Emily

 
I don't know much about Rockford, but I know lots about the "LOST" island.

Lets move there and start over.
:)
 
Posted by Emily on Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:51 PM
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Liz

 
My town is getting the casino... I think it's a really bad idea.

 
Posted by Liz on Friday, December 26, 2008 - 8:13 PM
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MAGIC BUS
MAGIC BUS

 
I live in Bloomington Illinois. We have an exceptionally high rate per capita of chain restaurants (as I'm sure you ISU grads already know).

What is the most you can hope for.... to manage one of these places. I grew up wanting to create stuff from my inspiration. I'll most likely never own a Jimmy Johns and follow the corporate recipe for success. Too much of a rebel for that anyway. But really..who is gonna buy a chain or be able to compete with a Best Buy or God forbid WalMart?

Good One Miles,

Lee
 
Posted by MAGIC BUS on Friday, December 26, 2008 - 8:13 PM
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David

 
I grew up in Springfield and go back there every Christmas. There are what seems like hundreds of Fridays, Chilis, Cracker Barrel, etc and they are packed every night of the week. It's so cold and dismal there the only thing people can think of to do is to go stuff themselves. You have to wait for 30 minutes just to get a seat. Most people are retired age. Meanwhile, the movie theaters (there are over 20) are half empty. The message I get from all of this is people find eating more entertaining than seeing a movie.

 
Posted by David on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 8:55 PM
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