Disaster Alert
What brainiac thought this one up?
- Just saw that Dave Matthwews Band Caravan is coming to play a 3 day festival on Chicago's lakefront on Jul 8-10.
Awesome right?
Flocks of suburbanites will swarm to downtown and spend lots of cash, right?
WRONG!
It's at 8500 S. Greenbay Rd!!!
Why worry about the thugs coming downtown when you can just ship the victims right to their doorstep? And this isn't just a concert - this is supposed to be a full-fledged "festival" with tents and displays and side shows. The venue brags it has 30,000 parking spots and can host 70,000 people. At 85th and Greenbay Road.
Anyone got the over/under for smash-and-grab totals for this little shindig? Because we have a bad feeling about this one coming on the heels of what should be a very interesting year at the Taste.
Anyone got the over/under for smash-and-grab totals for this little shindig? Because we have a bad feeling about this one coming on the heels of what should be a very interesting year at the Taste.
Labels: we got nothing
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
71 Comments:
85 and Greenbay?
The old steel mill?
You have got to be shitting me!!!
Its like Mogidshu over there. "Smash and Grab" is the least of their worries, how about ASCA, Car Jacked, Shot, Killed...
Look on the bright side, its not like his tour bus can dump shit on anyone or anything that matters.
WOW, this is a bad idea
Oh, yeah, the Rahm/Vanecko Cloutfest at 95th and the Lake. They're terrified of the flash mobs, and want to save the plate glass in the Loop, so they'll run this in slag-cocklebur-and-stuff-sticking-out-of-the-ground land, the old USS site.
I've no objection.
Just watch out for the packs of "rib dogs" running across the wasteland. They mean.
It will be all hippie wanna be kids and hipsters going to the show. Maybe this will turn out to be a good thing. They think they know everything about the beast and feel free to tell us how to do our jobs all the time, let them get some real world experience. Maybe then they'll shut up and let us be the police. I doubt it though. No matter what happens, the media will report that it was a peaceful event and a good time was had by all. Can't wait to hear the real stories on SCC.
I have never heard of Green Bay in Chicago. I thought that was a street in Milwaukee. I guess I need to google map it.
LOL, how many clueless suburbanites will wind up driving down 79th st. The venue will probably have a ton of security. Getting to and from the venue is another story. Most problems will occur when the love your neighbor hippie types or the obama supporting liberals will cruise the ghetto, are stupid enough to stop and sample the local cuisine, or even worse decide to hang out at any of the lake front parks (rainbow beach or even calumet park) so they can brag to their friends that they hung out in the hood. But some will get lucky, the wolves will be so busy feeding on sheep that some are sure to get away. Good luck... It would be a good night to send some city wide unit over there,,, oh wait, never mind..
ROTFLMAO I can't wait. You know the best part? I'm already detailed from MSF. They can't detail me again! I might just go, it will be a sideshow in itself!
check out this utube link.. it was another "Hot day" at North ave. beach
http://youtu.be/eRkl3Dz0k1I
But Ald. Sandy Jackson says it'll all be fine.
Just watch out for those bubbly puddles, kids; Sandy says the site has been cleared of decades of heavy metals pollution. I'm thinking the Vanecko Pollution Removal Company might not have done a real thorough job of it.
If you glow in the dark after the concert, but you didn't buy any glo-sticks, that might be your first clue.
Oooo... Not a good idea....
S. Green Bay Avenue is 3400 East. in CPD Dist. 004
I guess it's the city's idea of paying back the Steve Miller Band for dumping shit. Now the city is dumping them in shit. Haha! The Steve Miller Band in the "Bush"( this is the nickname for the neighborhood where they will be playing)
Remember the scene in "Vacation" when Chevy Chase pulls off the highway to ask for directions? It'll be the same...
you sure its not green bay road as in winnetka? ravina?
30,00 parking spaces. There is NO road into that facility that can handle even 5,000 vehicles at once. Animals from all over the city are drooling at the prospect of fresh white meat from the suburbs and beyond. This will not work out well.
The words "room service" comes to mind.
My old neighborhood, I'll come out of retirement just to flag the idiots into the venue, then the ambulances out... Just thought unless something has changed the nearest hospital is Jackson Park, good luck with that...
they rehabbed that area somewhat they put in all new streets, curbs and stop lights years ago, the streets are blocked so people cant drive through and also the street lights work, I predict this is where the casino(s) are gonna go
The neighborhood is called the bush. It's controlled by a latin King faction that is particularly violent. Sounds like a great place to have a party, the sheep are walking right into the slaughter house.
They just changed the venue so Davey's tour bus can't dump its bilges on some unsuspecting tourist boat again.
It's Green Bay AVENUE, not road.....surrounded by nothing but shitheads....
The main drag in is 87th street....I'm not sure if they've got any access off 79th by the filtration plant......this is going to be one HUGE fuckup....
It's been a few years since I've been in there, but if it rains, the toxic sludge that they dredged out of some river downstate as fill gets REALLY slick out there.....
Nothing like 30,000 cars stuck in mud a foot deep....just like LSD in the storm
For the hipsters and wannabes, getting mugged is part of the urban experience, something to be treasured.
Morons.
85 and Greenbay?
The old steel mill?
You have got to be shitting me!!!
Its like Mogidshu over there. "Smash and Grab" is the least of their worries, how about ASCA, Car Jacked, Shot, Killed...
Look on the bright side, its not like his tour bus can dump shit on anyone or anything that matters.
6/13/2011 12:19:00 AM
Oh too funny; so spot on!!
004 was cancelling days off for this event starting a while ago.
Wtf. Lmfao. This will be great can't wait.
I like it. Good use of unused land. I won't go, but the 708 and 630 people should.
I think this is a great way of allowing hipsters to experience "diversity." We should also have a hardcore gangsta rap concert in Wilmette, so our friends on the North Shore can also get a taste.
Here's an idea:
How about whomever works the detail bring a video camera along, then post he wildings on YouTube. No one can dispute what's on video, no matter how much the City and liberal media tries to cover it up.
Hair Gel here,
Got a question for the Dinosaurs: how bad was it when the Chicago Stadium (United Center) area was still crazy?
Did the visitors get routinely robbed?
Holy shit! It is true look at all the "victims" on a platter! This will be a disaster as the animals attack, why is it there? The fucking animals know Matthews is not rap music they will attack! If your planning ebay those tickets now! If the promoters thought of this shit Matthews needs to lose major dollars the savages over there are restless!
The Emanuel/Vanecko Music Machine.
Like the old "Kinetic Playground" where they invented the term "festival seating;" i.e., no seating. Takes up space. Grab the money at the door and jam as many of them in there as you can, quickly before the "security guards" pass out from swigging all the confiscated liquor.
"Look on the bright side, it's not like his tour bus can dump shit on anyone or anything that matters."
--6/13/2011 12:19:00 AM
Great point; there really is nothing you can do to make the area worse...
First one in the crowd to find a dead body or skeletal remains, etc. in the underbrush gets a Miller Lite T-shirt.
"How many clueless suburbanites will wind up driving down 79th St.?"
--6/13/2011 02:22:00 AM
As many as are steered there by their GPS. TomTom doesn't contain "DANGER - GHETTO" information.
They go into default/reset mode, "I'm not seeing this," both hands gripping the wheel and eyes straight ahead looking past the bucket boys flopping on the car, trying to ignore the bottles flying off the corner and the shouts of "YOU IN THE WRONG NEIGHBO'HOOD!"
they should pass out t-shirts with a target on them to make the visitors feel welcome in the criminal empire daleys criminal empire the mess he left us with Chicago!
Dave aint allowed in downtown..they are afraid the hippy and and his freak crew will crap all over out streets and river again
From Chicago originally but don't know the south side well enough other then to avoid it. Just used mapquest and this will be a tragedy. I mean, like someone said it's neo hippies and hipsters, but it's letting a special ed. kid play with a lawn mower. Kid is going to get hurt and have no idea why or why you're trying to protect him.
the only safe path to and from is from the east.
directly from the east.
Bwahahaha!! The old location of US Steel South Works. Wasn't this place designated as an EPA Superfund site years ago? I don't remember anyone coming in and doing a thorough cleaning of all the heavy metals and toxins that leached into the ground over many decades. The music lovers can come to this prime locale and get exposed to unknown carcinogens as well as get a taste of the thug life. Bring your iPhones!!
SCC some of "hipsters" aren't as pussified as we seem. I'm a big fan of the blog, but I think you are wrong on this one. I for one work in the "community" around the "beast" all day long. This will be a good way to show off future prime lakefront property. The musical lineup is stellar. By following some of your posters logic,I should have been shot, raped, spindled and mutilated going to all those events at the Stadium in the 70's and 80's. There is nothing wrong with being alert and cautious. It is another thing to scare away potential city revenue. My hope is that the fine members of the CPD will do what they do best... Protect the citizens and visitors of this still good city.
"Just watch out for the packs of "rib dogs" running across the wasteland. They mean."
6/13/2011 12:48:00 AM
I grew up in "slag valley" not too far from there. Those damn packs of roving wild dogs chased me up a tree on one occasion and had me running for my life on many others. They come out at night. Beware.
"The venue will probably have a ton of security. Getting to and from the venue is another story."
The Commander told us about 2 months ago that they had just sprung this on him. We heard about it in the paper before we heard about it at work. He was at a meeting and they asked him what he needed. He said all the day/night tact teams plus another 100-150 po's. We're not even going to be inside, that's just for the neighborhood/perimeter. Inside is going to have their own security because of all the rampant drug use.
There's no fucking way my kids are going.
The city in there wisdom re did the whole street from 83rd and commercial to it, which just so happens is bush latin king heaven, should be intersting
(OT) Another convention GONE! Rahm think think!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chi-car-show-first-to-exit-mccormick-place-after-labor-changes-nixed-20110613,0,4114625.story
I'm going there and start selling bandages!!!
This was done to attract the yuppies to the new housing development project going on. I believe it's called LakeFront properties. The pictures of what they plan on doing look great but what they're not advertising is that it's also going to be Section 8. Get the yuppies to buy while under construction and let them meet their neighbors when they move in.
Actually it's not a bad idea, business wise, think about it, the want to be hippie's can buy weed from dude and smoke all they want increasing business in the getto, police will be to busy to pay attention and maybe by then Rahm will make PCS an ANOV on the public way so then it's easy revenue at 200 Superior. Plus all the crap that can get stolen from hippie's car then pawned at pawn shops and resold on craigs list will increase revenue and money into the economy. And yes I agree as well, it's true at least the bus won't be dumping shit on anything or one that matters, enjoy your jagoff fest!!!
BWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! XD
"Y'all muthafuckahs crazy up in heah!"
The site of the old U.S. Steel South Works??
That neighborhood was declining 40 years ago...
That neighborhood was circling the the toilet 30 years ago...
The final flush was soon after...
We should lean on the one cohort who has a boat. Get about 10 people to chip in for gas just for the funny ha-ha of catching this study in fuckery on film while we have an off-shore picnic.
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
F*** Taste of Chicago! We'll be at Ribfest in Naperville. No ghetto-welfare families! No sanctuary illegals! No emasulated public safety (formerly police dept.) workers with a cajones-less leader. And a states attorney in THAT county who WILL prosecute not coddle criminals!
---not a cop, never a victim
All ready limiting time due for that weekend for coppers in 004. Rumor has it some clout heavy security firm got the bid. They, whoever they are,are trying to promote the property to bring in buyers. You should see all the big photos along the fence line going into the main gate. Yes! Main gate. The whole property is still all fenced in from when it was U.S. Steel works. Its gonna be an interesting weekend. Stay Safe everyone!
I worked in 004 for @13 years, and we always speculated on what they were going to do with that land. We always figured it would have been a casino or housing, BUT THIS? RAVINIA IN 004???? I pray to GOD I'm wrong but this location sounds like a virtual slaughter house/kill zone considering the amount of completely clueless suburbanite morons who figure they can go anywhere in America because its America. Just because you have the right to do something or go somewhere dosen't make it right. There is a concept called REALITY. Sorry Biff or Ashley or whatever the hell your parental units chose to label you with...ev erybody in the whole widw world really DOSEN'T like or love you, and they WILL, at the very least, hand your ass to you in a heartbeat. Whoever cut this deal should be held responsible as an accessory to Murder WHEN it happens. This may be one of the dumbest plans I have ever heard of.
Paul McCartney,
Wrigley
End of July.
Confirmed.
"Just watch out for the packs of "rib dogs" running across the wasteland. They mean."
6/13/2011 12:48:00 AM
I grew up in "slag valley" not too far from there. Those damn packs of roving wild dogs chased me up a tree on one occasion and had me running for my life on many others. They come out at night. Beware.
6/13/2011 01:03:00 PM
Very real -- my buddy in Pullman saw one trotting along a dirt road "back there" with a freaking human arm in its jaws, probably jerked and twisted off a stiff someone tossed out of a car.
"Missing people" are all somewhere...
Bad, bad place to get caught when all you can lay hands on is a railroad switch broom that God happened to leave leaning there, the kind that has a metal tip on the off end for chipping ice.
Believe me, you revert real fast in a 50,000-year-old situation. "Hmm -- I got LOTS of big rocks too..."
It is like being in a film about "The Birth Of Man."
Experienced, but NOT recommended...
Hair Gel here,
Got a question for the Dinosaurs: how bad was it when the Chicago Stadium (United Center) area was still crazy?
Did the visitors get routinely robbed?
6/13/2011 11:07:00 AM
even a hairgel ain't this fucking retarded.
This ALONE might put Christ, LCM, the Barnyard, Trinity, Roseland and JPH (possibly even Holy Cross!)on bypass.
F*** Taste of Chicago! We'll be at Ribfest in Naperville. No ghetto-welfare families! No sanctuary illegals! No emasulated public safety (formerly police dept.) workers with a cajones-less leader. And a states attorney in THAT county who WILL prosecute not coddle criminals!
---not a cop, never a victim
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I'm with you for the most part, but Section 8 trash from the city is hitting Dupage hard.
Hair Gel asked: ? Got a question for the Dinosaurs: how bad was it when the Chicago Stadium (United Center) area was still crazy?
Did the visitors get routinely robbed?
If you drove and parked in the right lot you were ok. Nobody took public transportation, there was nothing in the neighborhood for anyone to go to so nobody did go far, traffic patterns were all major streets which were usually covered and there was alot of shit that hit the fan if something went bad. All the white ushers would leave in a big group and catch a bus to the EL all at the same time afterwards, which should tell you something.
Face it though you are asking an apples and oranges question... Wirtz and Old man Daley were not Rahm and whoever the fuck is running this half assed idea of fun, and nobody was afraid of being Cozzied if they lit an asshole up.
"Nothing like 30,000 cars stuck in mud a foot deep....just like LSD in the storm."
--6/13/2011 09:10:00 AM
Don't worry, a "flash mob" will be right there to throw mud at each other, like the idiots showed up on LSD during the blizzard to have a snowball fight, not to help hard-pressed CFD/CPD get victims to shelter and get them a blanket, a hot drink and a ride home.
Useless, self-absorbed assholes.
"I guess it's the city's idea of paying back the Steve Miller Band...."
Steve, Dave, Miller, Mathews, only a generation separates the two.
Norhtside has RAVINIA and the southside now has RAHMINIA.
ROTFLMAO I can't wait. You know the best part? I'm already detailed from MSF. They can't detail me again! I might just go, it will be a sideshow in itself!
6/13/2011 02:51:00 AM
Yes they can dumbfuck.
"Inside is going to have their own security because of all the rampant drug use..."
--6/13/2011 02:16:00 PM
...sex. etc.
Stolen item? "Uh...you'll have to make a report at the security desk (gestures over half a mile of solid people towards the gate)."
Might intervene in an argument; certainly not in a gang fight or multiple rape. Odds 'way against them.
Maybe they can do lost kids. That's about it...
The Department will offer special for the event. The area will be saturated with P.O.'s who will protect the little hipsters from the real world. Ironically, the hipsters will complain about living in a Police state and remark about how the Officers are nothing more than fascist thugs. It will never occur to them that the only thing keeping them from becoming a bloodied lump of body parts laying in the street is the Thin Blue Line which they love to despise. If special employment is offered for this I hope nobody takes it. Let this happen. Let them see.
you mean Green Bay Ave.
Excuse me gentlemen, clueless and carless hipster here. ... In order to save the environment I try to limit my carbon footprint, and thereby own only a bicycle. 8500 South seems a bit far for my skinny legs to pedal in both directions from/to Logan Square. So myself and my boyish, bespectacled, hairy-arm-pitted girlfriend will be relying on public transportation. Do you recommend the 83rd St or 87th St. Metra station for a proper ass-kicking? Thank you.
Norhtside has RAVINIA and the southside now has RAHMINIA.
6/14/2011 10:52:00 AM
will it feel like rahmageddon?
perhaps it is 8500 n.greenbay
like in Lake Forest
or highwood
after all pehaps the NorthShore
needs the "urban experience"
as for a phrase i heard long ago
just the thing for the
"Lily White Suburbanites"
in reality it seems to me like a
GreatfulDead retread when the set the record for the largest attandence for a non - sporting event 112,000
fraternally yours churchmouse
Norhtside has RAVINIA and the southside now has RAHMINIA.
Dude, the southside is going to have fucking Mogadishu if they try this shit.
"...myself and my boyish, bespectacled, hairy-arm-pitted girlfriend will be relying on public transportation."
--6/14/2011 02:06:00 PM
Was she the one in the tank top I saw on Milwaukee Avenue the other day with the huge, fierce eagle gouged across her chest in fresh black ink?
Gah.
I averted my eyes and spat in reflexive disgust.
I suppose that is the desired response.
SOOOOOO very shocking. >yawn<
I wonder if the baby in the lightweight techno-stroller had a lip stud yet. Do they have infant-size "A-For-Anarchy" shirts that come with pre-torn holes in them?
Mindless consumers of packaged "rebellion."
Mindless consumers of packaged "rebellion."
6/15/2011 01:35:00 PM
if there's a market for it, someone will sell it.
I worked in that area for the Chicago Park District as a teenager in the mid-70's.
Daytime is no problem, but after the lights go on, well I would venture to say that some people will be assaulted, some maybe worse.
Something bad is gonna happen to some people who are uninitiated to Terror Town and The Dead Zone.
Actually, the entire Bush neighborhood in general is off limits after dark.
I agree that there are no good ways in to this area and fewer good ways out.
My children have been banned from attending.
wow you guys don't know jack about the Band it's management or the fan base.
I attended the Atlantic City Fest the band put on last weekend and people was saying how it was sheep to the wolves well. Beside the normal stuff that goes on at concerts it went off with out a hitch. No one was shot or robbed. DMB fans look out for each other. There be large group of fans taken the train's back into the City, Buses or Carpooling. So go and enjoy the show and learn stuff about yourselfs if you open your mind up to wht's inside it.
But we do know that part of Chicago and Atlantic City is small town suburbia comparatively.
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