How Creative Are We?

Richard Florida's site CreativeClass.org links to a bunch of great articles. I think that like Arlington (pdf), Elgin should figure out where it stands in the key metrics.

Getting Prof. Florida to speak in Elgin would go a long way towards making people aware of his ideas and how they can potentially shape a realistic and vital vision for where we want to take the city. I think there's a great deal of--at best--ambivalence about what the city council is doing and the direction in which the city is heading.