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Ninety-four days since the shockwave at Wacker and Michigan. I drove to Reston, Virginia on Tuesday. Six hours each way, one overnight in a Hampton Inn off the Dulles Toll Road, to stand in front of...
Eighty-seven days since the shockwave at Wacker and Michigan. Darius's drive took fourteen days to open, not the "two weeks" everyone kept saying like it was a smaller number. His new contact called...
On August 14th, the city clerk's office released a partial response to the public records request I filed on June 27th for the scoring rubric the emergency placement committee used to approve nine...
The FOIA response arrived on July 23rd. I had submitted the request on June 26th. The request asked for all records relating to Global Defense Agency deployment activities at or near the...
Day 11 of 16. The committee meets on July 16th. Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki is in Roseland. She is sleeping on an air mattress in her sister's two-bedroom apartment with six other people. She called me...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki's city assistance ended on Monday. I know this because I was there. Not inside the gymnasium — I was not allowed inside the gymnasium. I waited on the sidewalk outside the...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has three days of city relocation assistance left. Her bed in the gymnasium ends Monday. The city extension committee meets July sixteenth. There is a sixteen-day gap between those...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has ten days of city relocation assistance left. I know this because I called her this morning. She answered on the second ring. Her daughter slept in late, which she said was good...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has seventeen days of city relocation assistance left. I know this because I called her last Tuesday. She counts. The city letter says the assistance period ends on day...
The settlement form is four pages. I have all four. The entity offering compensation is the Urban Infrastructure Assistance Program, incorporated in Delaware on March 19th of this year. The...
Four days out, here is what the official story looks like from street level. The GDA moved into the affected zone on Tuesday morning — not the Army Corps, not FEMA, not the Chicago Department of...
I was three blocks from the corner of Wacker and Michigan when the second shockwave hit. You do not understand what a shockwave from a Viltrumite fight feels like until you have lived through one....