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Citizens Energy Group implemented two road closures impacting portions of 27th Street, 28th Street, and access to Illinois Street back in March 2023. At that time, we were also informed that a second phase of the project would impact northbound traffic on Illinois Street. The second phase is now set to go.
At the end of May/early June, Illinois St. will fully close. The work should be completed by the end of June.
The closure will encompass the area just north of 27th Street and extend up to 29th Street.
During this time, access to Illinois Street within this vicinity will be restricted to necessary construction activities.
To accommodate local businesses and residences in the vicinity of the closure, the intersection of Illinois Street and 29th Street will have staggered barricades in place with signage indicating "Local Traffic Only." This measure is intended to ensure that those requiring access to properties in the impacted area can do so with minimal disruption.
If travelling north from our campus, Meridian Street will be the closest/best option.
We anticipate that this closure may affect commuting routes for some members of our campus community, so we want to provide you with as much information as we know at this time. We advise all members of our campus community to plan their travel accordingly during this period, taking into consideration potential detours and alternative routes.
Effective August 11, 2023, the east side doors of the Glick Family Technology Center next to the IndyGo Red Line on Meridian Street will be exit-only moving forward. For those who use the Red Line, you will NOT be able to enter the building to cut across campus. You will need to go around the Tech Center building. (View map)
Drafting the map involved many hours of research, my head down in books and maps. Many hours in front of a dimly shining screen. I managed to get through approximately 75 mugs of coffee (mostly instant) and explored history, politics, popular culture and coffee cup design. I had always promised myself that, one day, I would actually visit this part of London and physically explore it.
The tour began with a shot of hot hot coffee, brewed to a 17th century recipe. Health and Safety required that spit and soot were left out but the English mustard was very much in evidence, giving the brew a strong bitter edge and gloopy consistency. It would be dishonest not to confess that most of it was poured down a convenient 21st century drain.
Dr Roland Mhlethaler, an entomologist, expert in animal vibratory communication and collaborator with Estudio Toms Saraceno, will lead a 2-part activity - a workshop and guided tour - in connection with the exhibition More-than-humans. The two activities are booked separately with the option to book both.
In the early 1820s, the United States had solidified its political system and had become a nation free of any wartime binding agreement with the Republic of France. Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong friend of France, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase and secured westward expansion. The War of 1812, however, reminded the United States that homeland security needed to be a top priority for the next decades. As the generation of veterans of the Revolutionary War was wearing thin, emphasis was placed on building up national awareness capitalizing on the momentum resulting from previous conflicts. The early 1820s was marked by the Monroe Doctrine, a rationale enshrining American ambitions to secure a comfort zone around the United States of America, as the balance of power was rapidly changing in Europe.
At the same time in France, the French Revolution had brought about a new social order, which was no longer based on privileges for the few at the expense of the people of France, but rather a reshuffling of the political cards into the form of a Republic. The Marquis de Lafayette opposed the conservative Bourbon Restoration that followed the Napoleonic years but soon realized that liberal thinking had gradually weakened in France.
The Farewell Tour provides a unique opportunity to look at the core of American society almost 50 years after the Revolutionary War, and to assess what the country thought of itself. It taps into remote and vivid historical backgrounds and reveals how the United States celebrated one of its heroes in large cities as well as in the countryside, all across the nation.
In New England alone, Lafayette made more than 170 stops on his two visits, in August-September 1824 and June 1825. He visited people he knew from the Revolutionary War such as Caleb Stark, son of New Hampshire General John Stark, Elias Hasket Derby Jr, officer during the Revolutionary War, and James Armistead Lafayette, former slave that played a pivotal role as a double agent during the Siege of Yorktown in September/October 1781.
Many streets, cities, towns and squares across the United States today are named after General Lafayette and his La Grange castle in the outskirts of Paris. Most of those names are a direct result of the momentous Farewell Tour.
The schedule of the Tour was mostly driven by commitments Lafayette had already made, especially to large cities like Boston, New York and Washington D.C. As a result, he consistently declined a lot of invitations originating from smaller cities and towns due to their geographic location. Indeed, venturing further into the countryside carried the risk of spending time on poorly maintained roads and undergoing mechanical failures that would delay the rest of the trip.
The Lafayette Trail, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with the mission to document, map, and mark General Lafayette's footsteps during his Farewell Tour of the United States in 1824 and 1825. It aims to educate the public about the national significance of Lafayette's Tour and to promote a broader understanding of Lafayette's numerous contributions to American independence and national coherence in preparation for the 2024-2025 tour bicentennial celebrations. The Trail brings together history, cartography and computer science in an education program whose principal goal is to raise awareness about Lafayette and the ideals he stood for throughout his life. It relies heavily on boots-on-the-grounds research that adds valuable materials kept in local historical societies and public libraries to the large-scale narratives covering (with much less detail) the whole trip. It features a user-friendly web-based mapping program (thelafayettetrail.org) as a tool capable of generating large interest in the French-American longstanding friendship, a powerhouse of progressivism that brought about democratic ideals still in motion around the world.
The resolutions of the town of Portsmouth delivered by you in terms equally kind and flattering have excited the most lively feelings of gratitude. Happy I will be eventually to present the citizens of Portsmouth with the homage of sentiments which I have cherished for near half a century. I much regret, gentlemen, that previous engagements and the propriety of an early visit to the seat of the government of the Union make it necessary for me to limit this first eastern excursion to the city of Boston where I had been kindly invited to land from Europe. I shall now certainly return to this part of the country before I leave the United States when it will be my happy lot, as it long has been my eager desire to visit the town of Portsmouth and express to her citizens the grateful and affectionate respect that bind me to them.
Content Warning: The tours in Mapping Teejop deal with difficult subject matter related to Indigenous histories and experiences under colonization. Stops on these tours will directly discuss genocide, ethnic cleansing, violence, mass death, forced removal and exile, the desecration of sacred sites, and other forms of Indigenous trauma.
Water guides visitors along the south shore of Tee Wąąkšik Homįk (Lake Mendota) in the West Campus area, beginning at Dejope Residence Hall. Visitors will have an opportunity to explore the exterior and interior of Dejope Hall, before moving towards Willow Creek along the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Path.
Mapping Teejop is the result of a collaborative effort between our project team and the campus community. Information about the main project team can be found below. If you have any questions, or are interested in contributing to the project, please contact Kasey Keeler at krke...@wisc.edu.
Ho-Chunk language expertise courtesy of Henning Garvin.
Sasha Maria Suarez (direct descendent of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation) is an assistant professor of History and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Dr. Suarez's scholarship focuses on gender and social movements in urban Indigenous communities in the twentieth century. She is currently at work on first book, Making a Home in the City: White Earth Ojibwe Women and Community Organizing in Twentieth Century Minneapolis, which will be published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Sarah Tate is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Wisconsin. Her intersectional research focus centers on archaeology and cultural anthropology. Tate's dissertation, which emphasizes collaboration with Wisconsin Oneida community members, explores how Indigenous diaspora use material culture to both establish a distinct identity in an unfamiliar sociocultural landscape and assert an ongoing relationship with ancestral lands from which they were removed. Her research interests include heritage preservation, cultural landscapes, material culture revitalization, and cultural resource law.
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