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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)

 

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IT STARTS SMALL. REAL SMALL.
WITH JUST TWO CHAIRS...

airing as a
three-minute news feature on THE

tv evening news

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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

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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. 

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a game of life or death

for the lives of chicagoans

for chicago's future

and it's

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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 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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