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[lcorridon @lcorridon]

#TDSTelecom @tdsTelecom 1 week for tech visit when there is no internet service is a joke. Definitely do not recommend you as a provider.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Stephen Colbert is wearing a tan suit at the Obama Presidential Center grand opening! 🤣💙

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

@muheediva01 Call my parents and invite them to spend the day with me.

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

@WitchWhoResists So happy for you

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I simply could not imagine being in congress and staying silent as Trump builds a slush fund of $1.776 (cute right… 1776) billion dollar slush fund for insurrrectionists.

What are these people even there for?

History will be brutal to them. And their kids will be embarrassed

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

@tru_fru Peabody & Hildy

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

Still feel like we are 1987 or 1988 years old and then I see this

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

Just a couple Chicago legends reunited.

#ChicagoHistory ☑️

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

Thank you @SPIN
Touring bands and comedians eat for free as always. And someday we’ll have another concert on our roof

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This is the still the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on a baseball diamond.

[Kurtis Allen 🎙️ @kurtisallen]

Remember the rain delay in Game 7 that led to a Cubs World Series win?

Same thing with the buzzer in this game.

#Illini

[Maury Brown @BizballMaury]

Welcome to Opening Day week. Here’s maybe the greatest promo ever done.

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

Da Bears!

[Joshua Mellin @JoshuaMellin]

🐻 Chicago Bears illumination at Merchandise Mart tonight

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

@BenBradleyTV Lindburg Light

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

Go Illini!!

[IlliniGuys @Illini_Guys]

The Balkan posse has arrived!!! #Illini #Illinisevic @IlliniMBB

[Amazing Notebook @amazingnotebook]

Whatever makes your soul happy
Do that 😊

[lcorridon @lcorridon]

@Buckingham_Show Sending love to you in the ICU.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The average monthly SNAP benefit is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit is up to $550 a person/mo.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

Working people want leaders whose word means something.

[Mark Rivera ABC7 @MarkRiveraABC7]

Ellis: I do not want to get violations from the plaintiffs that agents are out and about on Halloween where kids are present where tear gas is being deployed or pepper balls are being deployed. I expect everybody to act reasonably.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

JB Pritzker: “Not everything is a both sides issue. When someone’s breaching the Constitution, it needs to be called out. There’s not two sides to it. When there’s fact and fiction, you don’t present those equally”