Our little corner of the world is a less joyous place today than when the weekend started. The Spindle is dead.
* “Grassroots activism lost to corporate America [Friday] night when the 50-foot Berwyn ‘Spindle,’ an eight-car kabob, was dismantled under cover of darkness. Cermak Plaza’s pop icon was taken down with a crane to make room for a proposed Walgreens.”
* “Artist Says He Was ‘Heartbroken’ To Learn of Demolition.”
* All that’s left is the base.
* State senate resolution to save the Spindle.
* I wonder if the pending pay raise for state officeholders would have been enough to save the Spindle. Somebody do the math.
* Isn’t this the sort of thing that earmarks were designed for?
“R. Eugene Pincham, human rights activist, lawyer, former judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, was a strident critic of the criminal justice system,” says his biography at 
