Evanston is a suburban municipality directly north of Chicago. It sits on Lake Michigan. I remember as a kid going to Evanston's beach and marvelling at all the north shore mansions there. It was known as a millionaires' community.
Today, it's economically diverse, with most of the old millionaire families moved on. Evanston is about 63% white, 23% black and 6% or 7% Hispanic. It has lots of public housing and about 6% of families are below the poverty level.
For decades, Evanston has been the home of the "north shore limousine liberals." Because of its left-leaning politics, it's sometimes known as the "Peoples' Republic of Evanston". In 2004 it went 82% Kerry and 17% Bush. In 2008 it went 87% for Obama.
Drug or thug? Well, now it looks like the guy blew HIMSELF up. It really didn't have the earmarks of the thuggish street slaughter going on in Mayor Daley's precincts.
Evanston is the home of Northwestern University. It has a large campus where nuts with bombs strapped to themselves may have loony ideas. This is about the only stab-in-the-dark idea that comes to my mind at the moment with absolutely zero details to base anything concrete on.
Leni
Thanks for all the info. Perhaps this is another Gore/Globull Warming inspired eco-nut.
Thanks for the info. We’re about 40 minutes away from this area. And we are out walking our dogs at 5:45 every morning on our way to Mass. Not a discovery I would ever want to make. Glad it wasn’t the middle school kids that saw this ...
Jan Schakowsky’s (D) district, one of the more radical members of Congress. Some folks insist her husband, while in prison, wrote the script for the Obama rise and election.
When the district lines were redrawn in 2000, I went from Henry Hyde’s very conservative district to the radical-chic 9th district without ever moving.