Try to imagine a better world

You must try. Try to imagine a better world. Six impossible things before breakfast, then take one small step towards making one happen.

Whiskey Row, near Union Stockyards. Description: Whiskey Row, near Union Stockyards; Chicago, IL.  
[Source: ICHi-13188. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of postcard, printer - V O Hammon Publishing Company.]

Slavery has always been wrong

Slavery has always been wrong. Stop it wherever you see it. It has always been wrong. The gadgets, the weapons, the toys, the inventions, gone on don’t change anything. We are still all human beings, and we need to see that, respect that. Give life some dignity. That job is never over, recreated by every society, every civilization, every kingdom. Tie the hands of the brutes and the butchers.

Painting titled The American Slave Market by Taylor, 1852. Shows group of 13 white men, enslavers, in hats gathered at a slave auction, and a group of 7 enslaved people wait to be sold.
[No known copyright. Credit: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-053543]

Bubbly Creek Branch

Whipped cream on hot chocolate after a day spent walking through the mud in streets of the slums where there were no sewers. Could construction of sewers ever be bad?

Big sewer entering Bubbly Creek Branch near Chicago stockyards. ICHi-15014. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photograph; photographer unknown. From Chicago Commons collections. Date: 1905.

How weary the sun must be of us

Florence Kelley speaking, live from 1890s Chicago

How weary the sun must be of us, our whining, our complaining. The sky, the air, our Lake, our dreams. Look for joy. You will find it.

Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity.' pic 1 Description: Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity;' Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-52216. Reproduction of photomechanical print, printer unknown. Date: 1890-1899.