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Several hundred people here in the rain at Gateway Park at Navy Pier in Chicago.
Summer in Illinois is construction season. No surprise there. So, roads are closed, squeezed, shifted and crumpled, to allow the pouring of nice, fresh pre-cracked concrete all along your route.
As you drive to and from your fireworks, parades, tea parties, and barbecues [...]
On the 4th of July we celebrate the Declaration of Independence which was actually approved by the delegates of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 2, 1776.
On July 4, 1776, the delegates voted for the Declaration a second time, gave a public reading on the 8th and officially signed [...]
It's been raining steadily here in St. Louis for some hours now, parades are in doubt. I thought it might be fun to take a look at some past St. Louis 4th of July weather to see how we measure up. Via the National Weather Service.
By the numbers:
Highest temperatures
102--1990
[...]
Hubby, The Little Guy, and I are about to get on the train to go to the Tea Party at Navy Pier in Chicago! Yay!
I will be taking pictures with my camera and my phone.
I’ll see what I can post from the Tea Party!
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 89% of American adults agree that "we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Only seven percent (7%) disagree on that founding premise.
Seventy-four percent (74%) agree with [...]
Lower tax revenues with unemployment approaching 10 percent have forced some Illinois towns and municipalities to cut back on fireworks, as CNN.com reports:
In Illinois, CNN affiliate WLS-TV reported that Harvey, Berwyn, Elgin, Gurnee and North Riverside had canceled their shows.
Others have found other ways to [...]
Freedom Is Not Just An "American" Value
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole [...]
by Bill Federer
The Declaration of Independence was approved JULY 4, 1776. John Hancock signed first, saying "the price on my head has just doubled." Benjamin Franklin said "We must hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately."
Of the 56 signers: 17 served in the military; 11 had their homes destroyed; [...]
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers [...]
Time to hop into the "way-back machine" to a previous July 4 that had a profound effect on our nation.The number of homicides in Chicago decreased nearly 13 percent through June and the city saw a greater than 10 percent drop in overall crime, compared to the same time period last year, Chicago police announced [...]
by Mark Rhoads
Gloating begin and the chapagne corks pop in the editorial office of Vanity Fair and in Rockefeller Center network newsrooms and in the offices of Dave Letterman at The Ed Sullian Theater. Some on the left will jump for joy tonight that they ran Sarah out of town [...]
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