Thursday, February 4, 2016

'Hoods #13: Hegewisch/East Side July 24 2011

You guys.
This one was hilariously a hot mess.
Not cause of how Bill planned it.
He did a great job, as usual.
It's just that Hegewisch is...difficult to love. And it was raining. And I dropped my brand new phone in a puddle. And we could NOT find anywhere to eat.
Lucky #13?

Participants: Bill, Kelly, Anne

Highlights: desperately looking for somewhere that serves coffee in the AM
     -wishing we could tour the Ford plant
     -trespassing at the Lock and Dam
     -visiting what the internet promised to be a nature preserve, which appeared
      never to have been...um...finished. Maybe never even started? Certainly
      not open to the public. Balls.
     -going to that grocery that publicized 'the BEST kabobs' and then realizing
      that they meant 'raw/uncooked kabobs.' So instead we bought apples and
      cheese sandwiches and took them to the saddest park ever.
     -the prison toilets at the saddest park ever.
     -the folks doin it in the weeds at the saddest park ever.
     -what I kind-of remember being missiles in the saddest park ever?
     -Bill debuts his 'hoods phone case
     -that memorial to the fallen at a Union uprising. Had seen better days.
     -that rad Serbian Orthodox church. Seriously, very cool.
     -where Illinois touches Indiana.
     -discovering that wild parrots live under I-90! That was REALLY cool,
      actually!
     -Alright, Calumet Fisheries was exceptional.
     -the Blues Brothers Bridge!
     -taking our fried fishies and eating them al fresco at the lakefront.

Ok, looking back, there WERE some pretty depressing parts of this 'hood. But also? Some pretty awesome parts.

I guess that's the point of 'Hoods!?!

Hegewisch/East Side 'Hoods packet

Hegewisch/East Side 'Hoods flickr album

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