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  2020-04-15

  World's Fastest Hotdog Sits Idle in La Grange Park

  One of the Midwest-famous Wienermobiles, owned and operated by the Oscar Mayer company, has sat idle on a residential street in La Grange Park, Illinois for nearly two weeks. Possibly parked near an Oscar Mayer employee’s place of shelter, the stagnant truck, like many other closed businesses in the Chicagoland area and around the country, has become a symbol of the hard-hitting economic recession that followed soon after the initial outbreak of COVID19. #DePaulHST391
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  2020-04-14

  iSpy Social Distancing

  In the time of corona, we all must make do with safer, and sometimes simpler, forms of entertainment. With schools and businesses closed in many states, parents are looking for new and unique ways to entertain their young kids during the day. Reaching out to social media, many suburbs, like this one in La Grange Park, began displaying miscellaneous items as a sort of community-wide iSpy hunt for the local children to find and count as they go on walks with their parents. #DePaulHST391
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  2020-04-08

  Allergic Asthma in the times of COVID-19

  Sitting in the front seat of my roommate's four-door Honda, we pay a special birthday visit to my roommate’s cat, Bunny. During the time of COVID-19, quarantining poses new challenges for people struggling with longstanding respiratory issues, which has led our household to temporarily move Bunny’s home to a friend’s residence. Although we miss him here day to day, nationwide shortages of albuterol and asthma medications due to COVID-19 force us to make difficult decisions on how to maintain our respiratory health during this time. For now, our interactions with Bunny include short playdates and visits to prevent asthmatic flare-ups and the use of medications such as albuterol, which have become so much for valuable and sparse during the times of COVID-19. #DePaulHST391
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  2020-04-09

  Photograph of a flyer.

  This is a photograph of a flyer posted on the side of a Hispanic grocery store at the end of my street in Northside Chicago on my way back from a quick grocery trip. This GoFundMe was created March 20th by members of the Uptown Buena Park Solidarity Network. The Uptown and Buena Park areas are home to older people, people out of homes, migrants of many countries and cultures, and more recently, young working professionals. The UBP Solidarity Network Twitter bio says they are, “an all-volunteer, grassroots group operating in Chicago's Uptown and Buena Park neighborhoods.” They set up Google forms for people in need to request groceries, bill payments or help being sheltered. Although they only exist on social media, they use physical signs because they do not want to leave out the members of the community who are most vulnerable at this time. Their social media provide links to forms where people can request help from older citizen care, grocery runs and helping with bill payments. #DePaulHST391
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  2020-04-16

  Social Distance Thievery

  Twitter post making a joke about social distancing in crime. In these unprecedented times, a little comedic relief can be greatly appreciated. #DePaulHST391