It's April 3rd - Chicago makes history

[designbcb]

We've elected our first African American female mayor...and our first openly gay mayor. That's an important distinction because our first black male mayor was closeted....allegedly. 

 But Lori Lightfoot is married and so we have a female mayor and a first lady. She won in a runaway runoff election, winning all 50 wards. 3 out of 4 votes went her way. I wish her great success.

any surprising things going on in your world?

[vlmkpyae]

congrats to chicago. with the horrific brunei news i'm glad to hear of somewhere sane right now.

[Lionfishvintage]

I think it's great and definitely a milestone in history or should I say HERstory!! 

[vlmkpyae]

just checked. we have 405 members and i don't see any spam. yay. we had 404 earlier this morning when i went offline to finally sleep for the first time in over a day. things look ok here as far as i can tell. :)

[SwissZahlerArt]

We were born and lived about 60 years in Chicago. Then we moved to a suburb in the middle of forest reservs. 

At least one day the local TV news did not start with the shooting dead people report...

[Sundrench]

congrates  HERstory

[vlmkpyae]

april 4. couldn't sign in to either half of the site. i was on chat when it got fixed a few minutes ago. no clue what happened. i was just about to respond to a seller...

[philosophiacreations]

I was encountering a number of glitches earlier this afternoon as well, including the one that made our payment accounts and order pages inaccessible. That was frustrating. But if this comment goes though, it'll be my first post that has properly worked in about a week. I've only been able to (sporadically) "like" things. :C

[vlmkpyae]

@philosophiacreations . your post went through here. :) yes, i've been trying to check out on a purchase for well over an hour to no avail. it's odd because i was able to buy some vintage corelle from a seller without a hitch via guest paypal and then minutes later, nothing but errors on like 7, 8 tries.

[PixieRiver]

I hope that she will be able to do wonderful things for the city. Her acceptance speech was so impressive - she seems very down to earth, direct and determined to do the right things.

[vlmkpyae]

april 6. nuked a spammer. i found you have to delete their posts to get rid of them. i tried directly removing him from members only to get an error, but when i deleted his thread he went bye bye... we have 407 members here rght now, 7:30 pm pacific time.