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Chicago safe Practice
"two chairs"
(JUST one OF tons OF
WAYS CHICAGO'S tV STATIONS
CAN HELP top CHICAGO LEADERS
MAKE CHICAGO SAFE)
IT STARTS SMALL. REAL SMALL.
WITH JUST TWO CHAIRS...
airing as a
three-minute news feature on THE
tv evening news
on one lucky chicago tv station
that's right.
one STATION
two chairs
three minutes. . .
with the chairs soon to be taken by
two top Chicago leaders
and not just by ANY top two leaders, but by
two notoriously
FEUDING
chicago LEADERs
correct
BECAUSE CHICAGOANS
deserve TO SEE
THEIR LEADERS
for a change
not endlessly
FEUDING
LEADING
SO HOW can to get
two leaders LEADING?
six tabs (and text below) to
show how two chairs does the job.
1. find two feuding leaders willing TO COLLABORATE TO MAKE CHICAGO SAFE
Easier said than done, right? But that's our job. Our expertise. We'll find two top Chicago leaders willing to put aside their differences LONG ENOUGH to complete ON DEADLINE, over a NUMBER OF WEEKS a Substantial Chicago SAFE Project They can design their own project, with or without our help and/or that of the viewing audience. But the project must be seen by the public as meaningful and substantial. And it must be low cost or no cost unless leaders secure the funds to realize it.
a game of life or death
for the lives of chicagoans
for chicago's future
and it's
winnable
when AMERICA'S historic
INDUSTRIAL-AGE
I WILL CITy
USES THE MIRACLE OF
MODERN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
TO MAKE ITSELF SAFE AS A
DIGITAL-AGE
WE WILL CITY
here we've thrown out possibilities
for others to take or leave
But one thing we feel certain of is this: Chicago will be viable and flourish in the digital age only with a civic-purposed DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE that does for the city what Daniel Burnham's civic-purposed PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE did for Chicago during its industrial age.
This civic infrastructure, with its goal of a SAFE Chicago, is one BIG PLAN. Violence Reduction, by contrast, is a set of statistics. As such it's important. But it has "no magic to stir men's blood." Hearing it, Chicagoans just shrug their shoulders.
CHicago safe begins with just two chairs.
how can it continue?
it was daniel burnham who urged chicago to
chicago's #1 digital-age
public safety resource is
when chicagoans are
working with their LEADERS
AND their digital MEDIA
to make chicago safe
FOR ALL residents
just remember
chicago made itself violent
chicago can make itself safe
Thanks for visiting.
Since 1990 Chicago Civic Media
has designed dynamic multimedia formats to make Chicagoans and City Hall responsive and acountable
to each other in addressing and resolving the issues
affecting the lives of all Chicagoans.
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