Anyone Got Pictures?
Remember that "Chicago Fire Extravaganza" that wasn't? We got this e-mail yesterday:
- On the Orange Line yesterday, between the Halsted and Ashland stops. Observed the startling sight of the abandoned fabricated houses/structures that were to be burned on the river. Just abandoned in an empty lot, 3 symbols of political largess. Perhaps they could be recycled and the salvage value returned to the City, of course a fraction of the cost of construction.
Is this a storage lot? Or is it just another example of Rahm pissing away money after pissing it away in the first place "celebrating" the deaths of a few hundred people and the destruction of millions of dollars worth of property?
In any event, if anyone snaps some decent pictures, we'll put them up here so Fioretti can fail to use them in a campaign painting Rahm as a short-out-of-control-nine-fingered-egomaniac.
UPDATE: Here's one shot someone found and put in the comment section:
In any event, if anyone snaps some decent pictures, we'll put them up here so Fioretti can fail to use them in a campaign painting Rahm as a short-out-of-control-nine-fingered-egomaniac.
UPDATE: Here's one shot someone found and put in the comment section:
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
54 Comments:
I imagine they are now tourist attractions.
You can easily see them from the Halsted Orange Line platform. I noticed them last week. Its a private parking lot I assume. Unless someone beats me to it, I will take and post some pictures tomorrow.
Fly dumping?
Ruthless, egomaniac quack of a Mayor who should be ashamed for even thinking about spending $350,000 hard earned Taxpayer dollars to burn wood in the River...not once but he says he'll do it again next year. He's so bold. What a bum. Didn't we read he made $18 million dollars off of investing in Bruce Rauner's investment company?? Let him spend his own money on frivolous, foolish things like a Chicago Fire Fiasco. And may God rest the 300 poor souls who perished. Who could frolic on their lives....only ghouls and fools.
That's nothing! Wait til the Rick Simon boat pictures come out! Will rock this city and Obama himself!
Please, for the record I believe it's 9.5 digits.
"Observed the startling sight of the abandoned fabricated houses/structures that were to be burned on the river. Just abandoned in an empty lot, 3 symbols of political largess."
Nuts in kayaks paddling down the river hauling these...symbolic of something, huh? Rename it Festival Of Urban Decay, or maybe the Foreclosure Faire.
Embrace disaster! Celebrate collapse!
...and be sure to have "Chase Chase Chase" and "Bank Of America Bank Of America Bank Of America" advertising all over everything to remind us of some of the people who blew the Great Bubble That Burst.
"Recoup costs?" Who rigged the wet-squib pyro? Are they being sued by the city for failure to perform? Ha.
It's too weird.
So when are the advertised French clowns on fifty-foot stilts coming?
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Malinois Gone Wild
Hey, SCC, looks like they tightened it up. Especially not taking any chances after the Canadian attack, I guess.
Latest White House fence jumper has mental problems, father says
7:06 AM EDT, Thu October 23, 2014
"(CNN) -- A man who jumped the White House fence Wednesday night suffers from mental problems, and has been arrested there before, according to his father.
"Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, barely made it onto the lawn before he was subdued as he fought two police dogs, the Secret Service said.
"Dog got him," a Secret Service spokesman said."
Oh. Hell of a job done up north --
Kevin Vickers hailed as hero for springing into action against Parliament Hill shooter -- Sergeant-at-arms has decades of police and security experience
October 22, 2014
"Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms, is being hailed as a hero after reportedly shooting an armed gunman inside the Centre Block of Parliament on Wednesday.
"The role of sergeant-at-arms is usually thought of as largely ceremonial and Vickers is best known for carrying an enormous golden mace into the House of Commons before each sitting, but on a day filled with fear and panic, the 58-year-old Vickers reminded Canadians that he is also chief of security on Parliament Hill. According to numerous journalists and politicians who were there, Vickers is the man who shot the gunman dead and thereby prevented future possible injuries or fatalities."
http://tinyurl.com/lj85ozr
Got it:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mercer52/15409545520/in/pool-gapers_block
the Dems have mastered the art of pissing away money, this is just another example
oh the irony of it all is that Chicago is the furthest behind in fire code enforcement considering they endured such a historic event. 1st to burn, last to learn...its the Chicago way, too political to enforce anything consistently- rahm's living up to it quite nicely
I think Rahman and his lackeys piss our money away too but I think I remember a article that mentioned those structures being reused next year. There was something about 70 percent of the cost of this years debacle being in those structures.
http://chicagoist.com/2014/10/20/the_great_chicago_fire_festival_eff.php#photo-1
BTW in case you missed it. The Taste lost money again too. Something like #189,000 dollar I think it was.
$350,000 from the city, 100,000 more committed for next year, 1.3 mil from the park district, also plans to commit unstated amount next year:
"During the past two years, the city spent $350,000 on the Fire Festival, with the rest of the $1.3 million coming from the Park District. The city plans to spend another $100,000 next year, Boone said. After that, it’s hoped Redmoon can keep the event going with donations from businesses and foundations.
...A Park District spokesman did not respond to an inquiry about whether that agency, also controlled by Emanuel, plans to commit more money to the festival in 2015."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/chi-emanuel-festivals-chief-defends-taste-loss-great-chicago-fire-fizzle-20141022-story.html
What were there four of those? And four little boats? Averaging it out, that's $43,000 dollars. An average of $43,000 fucking dollars for the house in that photo!!
A week from now there will be a Vanecko and company built steel fence around it.
City code ya know.
Millions over budget on policing and a bunch of other stuff and they piss money away on this. It's criminal.
OT:
Rahm doesn't want Jon Burge to have his pension...doesn't think its right...in the ST article Re City Treasurer appointment.
More pictures
http://chicagoist.com/2014/10/20/the_great_chicago_fire_festival_eff.php#photo-1
It looks like a burnout on the west side,get a few extras and a few police in uniform and make a movie short,include a fire and Chicago Fire extras and put it on you tube and get a few million hits!
communism fails again.
2511 S hillock, Chicago, IL 60608
That is the address of where they currently are.
So the "green" mayor commemorates a tragedy of lost lives and massive destruction by creating massive amounts of air pollution? How quaint. You'd get more entertainment and less pollution by hiring a few nekkid wimmen to dance around a bonfire tossing fistfulls of $20 bills into the blaze. And yet you fools will reelect this fraud. Only in Chicago...
AAAAAAAAhahaha. What a picture! Just got up, coffee not ready yet, but this was just what I needed.
URBAN BLIGHT!
It's Detroit!
Camden!
Newark!
Chicago!
Celebrate...celebrate...dance to the music...
Oh -- are these "boarded up and secured" as per ordinance? Otherwise bottles, syringes, people gettin busy in there...brings down the neighborhood and provides a haven for crime, you know.
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"Police are asking for help locating a Jefferson Park woman who has been missing since last week.
"Barbara Chuba, of the 4700 block of North Linder Avenue, was reported missing after she did not show up for work for several days, Chicago police said in a statement.
"Chuba, 60,was last seen Oct. 15. Police said Chuba has not answered her phone, and attempts to reach her at her home have failed.
"Police said Chuba does not have family in the Chicago area and may be suffering from depression. She may be driving a 2012 burgundy Chevrolet with license plate R807322.
"Chuba is described as a white, about 5 foot 8 with gray hair and a fair complexion.
"Anyone with information can contact Area North detectives at (312) 744-8266."
I bet Rahm will put guards on that piece of junk 24/7.
But NOT on the Chicago Police Memorial or the Memorial Horses.
Shows where his heart is ...
or where it should be.
I saw three section 8 families fighting to see who gets to live rent free in the house. It looks to be in better shape then most buildings in 011 and 015.
Rahm Emanuel:
The quintessential smirking, smarmy, smarter than everybody else North Shore shit-ass who backed into his good fortune, courtesy of B. Rauner.
A ruthless, hateful, oversold and glorified middleman who's relentless sucking up and being indesposable to all the right people has led him to not only his undeserved wealth and stature (Hah! Funny! ;^) but also the over-heated attention and relevance he garners for himself.
So funny that media has conferred recognition on him as some sort or ass-kicking, roof-tops/back-alley Chicago tough guy with a "bad temper, a foul mouth and the ability to get things done."
Media Muthafuckahs PUH-LEASE come off that BULLSHIT!!
The REAL Chicago tough guys and traders in ass-kickery are the ones who respond to Big Ugly bumping in the night/go eyeball to eyeball with evil/deal with seven foot-400 pound Big Crazy who tore up the joint ecause he ain't feeling lime jello with pineapple chunks for dessert.
Among many other things imperfect, non-clouted churls do that are pleasing in the eyes of The Almighty.
Rahm is an undersized, smooth shaven, coiffed and manicured pimp who sniffs derisively and makes a phone call to have "it" stuck in the ears of far better men than he.
Heh... He so overcompensates to prove HIS worth over men who put it on the line... Seriously... He and others of his ilk have a serious hair across their collective asses regarding those in the public safety and military arenas.
All they had to do was sign up?
Now in middle age, they're feverishly
trying to destroy manly institutions like
Police and Military with their shitassery
and fuckery.
Of course he likes to drop in on occasion to see how negatively his "ear sticking" is affecting good people he swears he personally has no use for except to secure his person and give his spawn a ride to school.
Laughing up his sleeve at this bad joke where he and his are the only ones privy to the punch line.
Justice would be Rahm and his being reduced to living in these fly dumped monuments to all that is Fuckery.
The only thing Rahm has is being able to use his influence to ruin lives from a distance.
Yeah... That makes you a "Chicago tough guy" who gets things done.
Twerp...
its now a meth/crackhouse...servin it up out da 1st floor burned out window..rocks blows
Leave it there over the weekend and some fool will do a better job burning that Rahm's guys.
Welcome to Mayor Rahm I. Emanuel's Urban Blight 2014!
It's Detroit!
Camden!
Newark!
Chicago!
It's perfect.
How come it isn't boarded up and secured as per ordinance? As we are told, abandoned houses bring the neighborhood down, serve as "havens for crime" -- empty bottles, used syringes, people gettin busy in there, etc.
What is the long-term plan? Now that the lot is a "blighted area," can the Pritzkers buy it for $1.00 and build another gleaming tower of some kind on the site?
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They are now new Habitat for Humanity homes.
Actually the storage facility by Pulaski and 45th st was a Vanecko location!
It was in the sun times! so How much is the rent to store that piece of garbage that should cost less than a bunch of card board painted by kids.
Follow the money Joe Ferguson!
The FOIA by the better goverment organization will be denied because the city will say it is a private organization throwing the event!
The bribe is in the rent...
We have to ask ourselves is everyone getting a taste of these thefts? Free security provided by the police? Free advertising by the TRIB and Times?
Continued...
More city money for mayor's nephew
Vanecko, partners net $480,000 from lease on building bought with pension funds
Comments
June 4, 2009
BY TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters
City Hall has paid nearly $500,000 in the last 15 months to lease space at a South Side industrial site owned by Mayor Daley's nephew and his partners, who bought the property with city pension money.
Daley's nephew Robert Vanecko and his partners -- Allison S. Davis and his son Jared Davis -- used $4.2 million of the money they manage for five city pension funds to help buy the mostly vacant warehouse and surrounding land at 3348 S. Pulaski
is it me because i'm not even investigating this case!
Rick Simon? Friend of the King of Janitors?
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Attn. -- Channel 7 TV news --
The Chase branch at 7180 W. Grand that got robbed yesterday by an armed bandit around 2 PM is not located at "71st and West Grand," as you just reported.
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How many years can you do the news here, and still...oh, never mind.
Throw in a dead hoe or three in the basement and you might have something.
That's nothing! Wait til the Rick Simon boat pictures come out! Will rock this city and Obama himself!
10/23/2014 02:42:00 AM
okay, who's rick simon and what is going on with his boat already? this is like the third time I've read about this skipper on this blog but without details. well, actually if I remember right one detail I thought had to do with the Supe and that was it. sounds like our watch parties have nothing on this guy's boat. is it a jon-boat?
Rahmboy is selling it to obola for use has his future presidetial library.
Ot: 27 year sentence by judge linn for a murder conviction. With all the liberal freebies this scumbag will be out in less than 20...drug dealers get more than that. What the fuck is the matter with this county
Rahm doesn't want Jon Burge to have his pension...doesn't think its right...in the ST article Re City Treasurer appointment.
10/23/2014 09:40:00 AM
Burge did more for this city than that sniveling little man child ever will.
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Rahm doesn't want Jon Burge to have his pension...doesn't think its right...in the ST article Re City Treasurer appointment.
10/23/2014 09:40:00 AM
The Pension Board already ruled on this.
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Rahm doesn't want Jon Burge to have his pension...doesn't think its right...in the ST article Re City Treasurer appointment.
10/23/2014 09:40:00 AM<<<
Dan Rostenowski received his pension, even collected it while in jail. But he was an elected Democrat politician.
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I thought the academy has classes going through right now or are they ghost classes? No hiring should mean less people working in the academy then right?
10/21/2014 10:52:00 AM
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It is the same guy who keeps posting. Do not fall for the bait. We are swamped with work at the academy. We are too busy helping out with studies and preparing lesson plans.
10/22/2014 09:39:00 PM
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Speaking of extravaganza, what about the people who are assigned to the academy. Is that not waste? If there is no hiring, then what are the people doing?
Irresponsible waste of taxpayer money and a horrific way of honoring those who perished in the fire
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Malinois Gone Wild
Hey, SCC, looks like they tightened it up. Especially not taking any chances after the Canadian attack, I guess.
Latest White House fence jumper has mental problems, father says
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Some day perhaps I will read the story of a fence jumper whose family will say "He is absolutely normal. well adjusted with an above average IQ and is a famous cardiac surgeon at a top hospital with a beautiful wife and 4 wonderful children." "We don't understand what happened, suddenly he started stripping off all his clothes, drew pictures on his balls and said we should excuse him because there was something he had to do." Then he hopped over the White House fence and claimed he was only seeking to meet the President and become the first person who was not barking fucking mad to do the fence hop.
why is the city celebrating a disaster in which 300 people were killed and 100,000 left homeless? So fucking bizarre to me.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
That's nothing! Wait til the Rick Simon boat pictures come out! Will rock this city and Obama himself!
10/23/2014 02:42:00 AM
okay, who's rick simon and what is going on with his boat already? this is like the third time I've read about this skipper on this blog but without details. well, actually if I remember right one detail I thought had to do with the Supe and that was it. sounds like our watch parties have nothing on this guy's boat. is it a jon-boat?
10/23/2014 05:22:00 PM
So, nobody responds to your 'hot tips' and you create your own "h, please tell us" post? Lame.
Photoshop a picture of Rahm "chair-dancing" in one of the windows like a demented chihuahua...
This is why Chicago is and forever will be a second class city. We in New York would never celebrate a fire that almost destroyed our city.
here's an idea....since I wont likely get to it...make a slide show of all the goofy rahm pics you can find, put it to the benny hill theme, and narrate these comments over it....put it up on youtube
if you post it, clicks will come
"Remember the Rick Simon boat tape has yet to surface with Gmac as ONE of the stars. Stay tuned!"
-- 4/16/2013 09:11:00 AM
Any day now, huh?
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"Police are asking for help locating a Jefferson Park woman who has been missing since last week.
"Barbara Chuba, of the 4700 block of North Linder Avenue, was reported missing after she did not show up for work for several days, Chicago police said in a statement.
"Chuba, 60,was last seen Oct. 15. Police said Chuba has not answered her phone, and attempts to reach her at her home have failed.
"Police said Chuba does not have family in the Chicago area and may be suffering from depression. She may be driving a 2012 burgundy Chevrolet with license plate R807322.
"Chuba is described as a white, about 5 foot 8 with gray hair and a fair complexion.
"Anyone with information can contact Area North detectives at (312) 744-8266."
10/23/2014 11:43:00 AM
Doa natural at home
Hey Joe G,
You didn't leave a number.
Stop with the IP crap - IP doesn't give us a number. You've got e-mail, don't you?
We don't get where you're coming from with the "freedom speech / true" thing - what are you attempting to say?
This is why Chicago is and forever will be a second class city. We in New York would never celebrate a fire that almost destroyed our city.
10/24/2014 08:19:00 AM
A true Chicagoan wouldn't, either, but our mayor isn't a Chicagoan.
What's next flight 191?
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