I started this blog for prospective clients of mine to share some feedback about how I tried to serve them in their search for a new "home" in Chicago. When you fail to close a deal you feel a bit empty. It's like being fired or "pink slipped" and you really can't do anything about it for it's really beyond anything you can control. If you want to connect with the thread of thought that inspired this blog I'd highly recommend that you watch the 30 minute short documentary, "Lemonade The Movie".
The phrase "For The Love of Chicago" actually was received by me as a Divine gift while I was trying to serve two other clients, a husband and a wife, who originally hailed from India and has just graduated from graduate school here in Chicago and were looking to start a new home here in Evanston where I live. Please note that I consider Evanston to be a part of Chicago so for them I used the term "For The Love of Evanston." Actually I like to tell my clients that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Evanston. It's a longer story about how my mother met my father as a junior college transfer student on her first day in Evanston to attend Northwestern University in the fall of 1948. My father, an injured - hard-driving & drinking-smoking - veteran of WWII - 3 years her senior - wouldn't leave her alone and, thankfully, I am here to write about it.
Back to making Lemonade... I watched Lemonade The Movie at the Chopin Theatre on March 16th here in Chicago. On April 27th, after visiting the Chopin Theatre a second time for a speech I came out later in the evening to my van only to discover that passenger side window was smashed and my laptop was stolen along with an expensive pair of glasses. Regardless of the event, somewhere deep in the mix of the emotions of loss is a love that keeps all of us going day by day.
Like anything in life, when you reach out to help others there are no guarantees. When a deal isn't closed, after all the time spent running around here and there, sometimes I feel like I let myself down, while other times I feel like I let my prospective clients down.
In other cases, where my efforts have been successful for all concerned, I still would like to stay in touch and help these individuals share with others some of the special experiences that make their time in Chicago so special and unique.
So I created this blog as a way of trying to lay down a connected record for these individuals to share their thoughts about me, about experiencing this great area - and her many neighborhoods for the first time - just like the memories we all have as children selling lemonade ...all "For the Love of Chicago!"
