By SaqibSaab on Apr 22, 2008 in Chicago, Disasters | 4 Comments
Accounting 350 this week was the same as usual, slow and unexciting. There I was stuck in a three hour night class, slightly bored and fiddling with my phone. All of that changed 48 minutes into the class when I received the following text message from a Muslim brother in another building on campus also […]
By SaqibSaab on Apr 15, 2008 in Chicago, Dawah | 0 Comments
One day while walking through the Loop of downtown Chicago, I saw something different from my everyday walk to school.
I noticed a No Parking sign that caught my eye, different from all the hundreds in the Loop. Something was clearly noticeable about it; a bright red sticker attached to its plain black painted pole. The […]
By SaqibSaab on Feb 25, 2008 in Chicago | 13 Comments
There are so many potholes in Chicago, that I’m starting to think the city needs to borrow from Mayor Quimby and The Simpsons for a solution. “There’s nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!”
Earlier this month, my brother’s car got a flat tire from going over a pothole on his commute […]