All tagged Holy Name

Holodomor

Holodomor

Jack Siegel
Chicago, Demonstrations, Protest, Public Declarations

Tonight, Chicago’s Ukrainian community gathered in front of the Old Water Tower to commemorate Holodomor—the 1932-33 famine that killed between three and ten million Ukrainian. Nature did not cause the famine. It was man-made, the author being Joseph Stalin, who used genocide to suppress an Ukrainian independence movement. The Ukrainian community draws the obvious parallels between Stalin and Putin, so this commemoration was really a protest against the ongoing war in Ukraine. Here are my thoughts about the demonstration, together with my images from the event.

Solitude

Solitude

Jack Siegel
Chicago, Architecture

Today, Holy Name cathedral is probably the best know religious facility in the Chicago.  In addition to regular services, it is the ceremonial site for the Chicago's Catholic community.  Major weddings and funerals are held here.  One of the more notable recent funerals was for Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert.  I was told by one wedding photographer that the fee for a wedding is $1,000, which does not strike me as a large sum given the extravegent spending that often accompanies the union of two people.