“Weird, but mostly harmless,” reads the sub-line of the F.B.I.’s file on the Thieves of Hearts. Considered to be the largest standing militia in Illinois, the Thieves are an armed organization that congregates regularly, but the probability of a militia attack from this group, at least by modern account, is highly unlikely.
The Society for Creative Anachronisms, the overarching organization responsible for the Thieves’ activities states their mission as “Creative anachronism takes the best qualities of the middle ages and recreates them in the modern world.”
These two foot soldiers look out of their element in a gymnasium.
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The Chicago Bucket Boys:
Video shot by Mike Reilley, edited by Rob Fidler
Fun With Garage Band
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Fun With Polls
Lincoln Park Muggings Spike Over Summer
Over the summer of 2009 the young residents of Lincoln Park struggled with a rash of muggings that left seven victims beaten and robbed.
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Between July 30 and August 4 of 2009 the Chicago Police Department reported seven men in their early twenties were mugged. Police believe that four of the attacks are related, with each of the victims stating that at least four attackers assaulted them. Victims were asked for their wallets and then savagely beaten in the head and face. Two of the victims are currently hospitalized.
As of March 31, 2010 no arrests have been made.
The Story of Gapers Block
Gapers Block, founded by Andrew Huff, is a newspaper styled website with a focus on Chicago and named after traffic jams caused by gawking drivers.
Running for seven years and counting, the site boasts more than 80 volunteer contributors, eight paid staff editors and scads of content for arts, novels, food, music, politics and sports. It received a $35,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust to bolster features on local events. According to Huff, it is rare for a for-profit organization receive such a grant.
However, it wasn’t always this prominent. Andrew Huff, started his blogging career with modest means: a tripod site entitled The Huff Report. As his interest in blogging increased and his dissatisfaction with his public relations job decreased, Huff joined a ring of local bloggers on the website Me3dia, where Huff and his collaborators bounced around ideas that would eventually form Gapers Block.
