History Gone
More history lost to incompetent government and a lawsuit driven society:
- The last toboggan slides in the Cook County Forest Preserve District will come down despite an impassioned plea to preserve the historic attractions enjoyed by generations of city and suburban residents.
The Forest Preserve Commission approved contracts Tuesday to demolish the storied, southwest suburban Swallow Cliff slides and a set of similar slides at Caldwell Woods on Chicago's Far Northwest Side.
On a brighter note, the Toddler promised to raise taxes again to fund a previously undiscovered branch of the Stroger family tree.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
28 Comments:
Of course if these slides were serving the "community" near 55th and Racine, or lets say Jackson and Central Park, Cook County would never raze them. The wrong class of people live in Palos and the northwest side to receive any kind of county benefit if you all know what I mean. WOW I hope Osama from Chicago/Cook County is not elected, because America as we know it will be over!!
What the fuck does the Toddler care about toboggan slides. They aren't basketball courts.
Now they'll be more room for the wierdos to "swallow cliff"
He said he did it to save money . Fuck You, you little twerp . Fire all the people on your payroll that don't do shit which amounts to a bunch of your relatives and friends.
What about all of the money he could steal from having the slides operational? I remember how much fun those slides were and the concessions were not cheap but we paid anyways.
Now Jensen slides have been boarded up for years, but the hood can get nice planters and flowers that get trampled on and full of liter in about...oh 2 days.
Does Daley even know what this city looks like? Every time he goes anywhere the place is spruced up; repainted, over staffed, cleaned up, etc. Roll out the red carpet his highness is here we have to put his blinders on so he thinks he is our savior that can do no wrong. VOTE THEM OUT.
It doesn't have anything to do with race! None of Strogers RELATIVES live near the tobaggan slides. He hates the black folk that ain't his peoples too!
Who still owns a toboggan? Since when do kids still go out and sled? We go to Schiller and the only kids I see are Eastern Euro's and the mexicans? The regular lazy American kids are all just sitting in their homes with the playstation.
good god!
Yea Destroy what the while folks use so you can fund the inner city ghetto.
What a shame! Being born & raised on the far southwest side, I always cherished the family trips to Swallow Cliff to ride the toboggan chutes. A great time for a cheap price. ANOTHER example of a bureaucracy in shambles. This city & county is a complete joke! Sad but true. If the chutes were in the inner-city, this would NEVER happen!
Are the slides in the Dan Ryan Woods still open...nuff said.
It's like indoor skating rinks. the Park District has one. Can we say, don't cater to the white taxpayer? These MFs are going to make jim crow look like a cakewalk.
I'd rather go for a oiled belly slide on Capt Mags. Wheeeeeeeeee!
Jensen Slides were the best part about winter in Edgebrook.
Fuck Stroger.
How about midnight hockey for white guys?
I wonder how much the demo company paid the Stroger crime family.
The previous poster about the location not in a brother zone affecting the decision to raze the slides is correct.
Look around.. most suburbs pay alot of Crook County taxes and yet get little services in return.
There will be more Palatines wanting to get out of Crook County
To 4/09/2008 01:31:00 AM and
4/09/2008 02:40:00 AM
You are a bunch of assholes.
What services do you get for the taxes you pay in Cook County?
Toddler is turning the family tree into a money tree. Our Money!
We PAY and get NOTHING!!!! BTW-AntiSlavery Tax is coming .5% Todd and Jesse to push for it.Daley Bros will do nothing to stop it. Keep voting these people in with the One Party systme
Jensen Slides will be missed! Man those days were fun.
But honestly there is nothing safe about the Forest Preserves...full of half naked old guys cruising for sex, homeless predators that would kill their mothers for a 22 oz. and satanic cult worshipers sacrificing wildlife.
Leave the serving and protecting to Strogers sorry excuse Forest Preserve "police"?? I use the term "police" with reservation.
I'd rather leave my "lazy American kids" at home with their playstation...MUCH SAFER!
Are the slides in the Dan Ryan Woods still open...nuff said.
4/09/2008 01:55:00
Don't know what is meant?, Are you implying that it was used by whites or blacks? Anyway, it was enjoyed by many children from Beverly, "West Bev", and Mt. G. at the time, so it is missed,...torn up a few years ago under the former inept C.Cnty. imbicilic board members...
We, the members of the Stroger fambly, don't like no activities that involve gettin cold. Gimmie dat warm basetball court anytime.
And again chumps, thanks fo votin democrat!
What happened to the money that was supposed to be for the slides in years past?
For the price of Toddsters new PR person (fourth?) the chutes could be repaired and brought back.
Todd is a no good piece of shit who's main function in life is not to run county government, but to run a county employment service. He can kiss my ass.
Got my old Flexible Flyer from 1940 all shined up for the grandkids. Unfortunately, they'd rather sit in a plastic dish and go down the little hill at the park. Oh well, at least they're out there having fun.
Do miss the slides at Ryan Woods. Went there as a kid with my family. It's not safe going there anyway so what the hell.
Vote with your ..wallet shop in Dupage County..friendly store workers,clean without the panhandlers etc ..no Daley TAX and no Stroger TAx.
A rough guide.. Dupage County is WEST of RT. 83, as you get off the Stevenson going North ..
Pick up today's Chicgo Reader..as they point the Chicago Park District wastes millions of TAXPAYER $$$$ renting offices in downtown Chicago .
Betcha Daley doesn't know anything about the waste!!!
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