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Slime Bartlett Contest

I remember when West Chicago High School won the Presidential Award and Carmen Grecco, the writer from the Daily Herald that covered the town, stated that it was "in spite of Latino street gangs."  On the PR front, West Chicago never seems to catch a break.  However, I cannot think of a more egregious slur than the barely post-pubescent, smarmy, trash that made it past the apparently brain dead editor of the Bartlett Examiner which is posted below.

A VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS... BARTLETT EXAMINER 1/19/05

Travel the Burbs
by Rich Trzupek

"West Chicago Named for the indigenous Westawahoo Indians, the city added “Chicago" to their name in order to attract business involved in handling radioactive elements. Investing heavily in the town Kerr-McGee brought enough such material to town that its glow was, visible from space for many decades. Sadly this is no longer the case, which has hurt the West Chicago economy.

West Chicago is also famous as the home of DuPage Airport. Which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world’s coolest airline terminal at an airport that major airlines can’t actually Use? City Motto: “Cancer schmancer.’"

Well, I, for one have taken enough.  It is time to fight back.  I am therefore announcing a Slime Bartlett Contest.  In mock adherence to their journalistic standards, I propose the following rules.

  1. Don't bother to inhibit yourself with the truth.  You are going for laughs, not a Pulitzer Prize.

  2. Keeping it G rated does not mean you can't get down and dirty.  You're going after a one toothed mutant with a banjo that wants to rape your daddy ... not Mother Theresa.

  3. Make sure it would collect giggles from drunken sorority girls at a sports bar in Chilicothe.

I offer the following first three just to get the ball rolling.  Email me at lemon@wegoweb.net and I will append your suggestions.

Insults of Bartlett, IL.

  1. Mr. Truzpek is so dumb that When he drives from West Chicago north on 59 to Bartlett he raises the IQ of BOTH communities. (R. Lemon)

  2. Bartlett resisted a waste disposal facility, afraid that reasonable errors would decimate their housing inventory.  (R. Lemon)

  3. I think fondly back to the days of the proposed waste dump in Bartlett... the one they hoped would salvage their tourist industry.  (R. Lemon)

  4. Bartlett - A NICE PLACE TO MOVE FROM  (M. Kwasman)

  5. Bartlett police are still looking for Officer Fred Ciccone's Barney Bullet, because replacing it would bust the city budget. (a former Bartlett resident who wishes to remain anomymous)