Friday, December 18, 2020

Groot Wanted More Taxes

The little dictator doesn't seem to understand that aldercreatures are supposed to work for their constituents:

  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday condemned as “aldermanic prerogative at its worst” the decision by downtown aldermen to block plans to raise commercial property taxes along North Michigan Avenue to bankroll security improvements after two rounds of looting.

    Lightfoot said commercial properties fronting the Magnificent Mile are “suffering and hurting” after a dramatic dropoff in sales and foot traffic and were willing to tax themselves to shore up their defenses and lure back shoppers.

Businesses asking for "more taxes"? We think Groot is misinterpreting the tenor of conversation going on between businesses, aldercreatures and her office.

  • Hopkins countered that Lightfoot’s efforts to “achieve dictatorial rule of Chicago have been stymied, not because of aldermanic prerogative, but because the legislative branch is a co-equal branch of government.”

    “That’s a lesson she needs to learn and needs to learn quickly,” Hopkins said.

    Reilly renewed his complaint about the “truncated, hurry-up-and-approve-it” process used to create the taxing district and about plans to spend a “significant portion” of the money generated by the three-year tax hike on “salary, contracts, personnel and other operating expenses.”

    “This proposal was unveiled just four months ago [and] was developed without any input from the local aldermen. A number of key procedural checkpoints [to gauge support] were waived. And roughly a third of the impacted property owners still do not support the application,” Reilly wrote in an email to the Sun-Times.

One-third opposition is a significant number of businesses who have an actual stake in the TIF being created. The Tribune found that Michigan Avenue has already lost one-third of the businesses. If one-third of the remaining businesses decide that this is the last straw and they shut for good if implemented, the aldercreatures are looking at a 50% reduction in viable businesses in a single year.

Sounds like aldercreatures are doing their jobs, instead of rolling over. For once.

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71 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Larri wanted More insider contracts for the connected, jobs for the community, for nothing in return ,except tax money wasted ..that's why F U brillo hair lori was pissed ,Mag Mile stores had enough of the B.s. in 2020

12/18/2020 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Groot the destroyer!

12/18/2020 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And yet u have the black caucus of NITWITS Re electing Mike Corruption is King Madigan!!!

12/18/2020 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The whole thing is sick and insane. Lightfoot is the reason for the destruction of downtown and Chicago. Her rhetoric her incendiary comments and her baseless attack on Chicago’s police officers caused the destruction of downtown. The aldermen know damm well how much their constituents hate Lightfoot and how furious they are. The residents and businesses love the police and are very vocal about how they feel about the whole situation. The only thing saving downtown and Lightfoot is the massive daily police presence. The aldermen better get her out before it’s too late.

12/18/2020 12:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad they told her to screw off. City council should start taking more control and the first thing that needs to happen is the rooting out and getting rid of the socialists in the council. We are in a death spiral. Time to get real before the next step i to the abyss

12/18/2020 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All things to all people- it's Groot, Surgeon-Generall, Politicker, and Collector of Excise Taxx.

"Lightfoot said commercial properties fronting the Magnificent Mile are “suffering and hurting” after a dramatic dropoff in sales and foot traffic and were willing to tax themselves to shore up their defenses and lure back shoppers."

The businesses are hemorrhaging so badly that they will allow the ministrations of the Middle Ages. They will be back on their feet in no time by further bleeding them - by opening their veins and applying leeches and bidding them drink, drink great droughts of medicine - of mercury and arsenic and opium and henbane.

The patient is bluish-pale and so feeble they can scarce lift a shaking hand. The lips work, but no sound, no word comes forth.

These are the sure signs of recovery.

*

12/18/2020 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Vote for and implement an impeachment mechanism with veto proof majority and launch her and start over before it’s to late. Send her packing. Find a competent moderate to take her place and fix the shit that’s broke. If 45 alderman can stick together they can do it in a day. Say next Friday. Or Thursday, pick a day and launch her. Nothing personal, it’s just not working out.

12/18/2020 01:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazon is killing all of the brick and mortar businesses.

Jeff Bezos is a freaking genius.

12/18/2020 01:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

🖕 groot !

12/18/2020 01:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tax the fuck out of the businesses Larry. Show ‘em who’s the boss. You’re such a fucking intellect. Show them how’s it’s done. I promise that I will continue to drive downtown and visit the businesses. $30 parking is crazy ... fucking crazy ... but I’ll enjoy traveling to Michigan Ave with my family to visit the dollars stores, Churches Chicken and the pawn shops. Nice shit in da pawn shops sometimes. I may even stop at the weed dispensary and then piss $5000 away at a slot machine over a few hours once our beloved casino opens. Hopefully heroin is decriminalized soon (just like the west coast) and I can get high, piss in any alley and take a nice nap on the sidewalk too.

I’ll make sure to vote for you next election. You’re my fucking hero.!

12/18/2020 02:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well what ever happens the working middle class who are stuck here because of their jobs, if they still have one, and/or stuck because of family obligations will be picking up the tab for the political corrupt power base and their constituents, the gibs me dat fo free crowd. Transferring the wealth through taxes.

12/18/2020 02:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So here’s what happens after the merchants leave and the stores become vacant. The building owners appeal their property taxes seeking a reduction from the county assessor citing a vacancy factor. The taxes are reduced resulting in the county not getting its full share of the pie and then the powers that be look for an increase in taxes from those commercial building owners that still have tenants trying to stick it out. But then those building owners pass the increase on to the remaining tenants who eventually can’t afford to stay, so now they leave and the cycle starts again. This city, county and state is so fucked.

12/18/2020 02:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Give some more tax money — if u don’t than u are racist

12/18/2020 03:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More taxes.... simple
OPEN UP THE CITY.

12/18/2020 03:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This idiot is out of control. Good for them by not approving it.

12/18/2020 04:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More taxes will solve everything...and the band played on.

12/18/2020 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A few months ago an article appeared which said the city was reluctant to have the Corporation Counsel's office pursue criminal charges against many of the demonstrators that tore up the downtown area over the summer. So now, the Mayor, after doing NOTHING to alleviate the losses downtown businesses incurred because of rioting and looting, wants to charge them for security. And that security comes at a cost to Chicagoans who forego their police protection at the district level. As posted here, many districts are running with less than minimal staffing and supervision. And the carjackings, shootings and homicides are at record levels and the pygmy and the blimp do nothing but say Fuck you to the president and then hope for federal bailout money for their incompetence.

12/18/2020 06:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to worry about lost downtown revenues, because Larry says water, heat and shelter are entitlements so we won't have to pay. Surprisingly, the number of multi unit dwellings, owned by landlords who can't collect rent or evict the squatters, haven't been torched.

12/18/2020 06:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just the headline;

CPD union president faces firing over Facebook posts

You can find the story if you want in one of our Chicago newspapers online, I guess freedom of speech is not so free when you are president of the fraternal order of police, I agree John is non-conventional he stands up and he confronts what he sees as injustice. But no news media was worried about the mayor calling Chicago police officers clowns plus all the derogatory things she does against the police, now that’s OK because she’s a Democrat and they on the media. This country is rapidly changing the city is a total shit hole prime through the roof and this is what they are worried about you’re not worried about the states attorney not doing their jobs the judge is not doing their jobs are the criminals on the street all the murder shootings carjackings that’s all OK apparently but my boy oh boy I’ll say nothing negative about the management of the police department or the elected goofballs this happens! No wonder so many are rapidly getting the hell out of here and waiting to this department going to other places can’t blame any of you God bless the police God bless you also John!

12/18/2020 06:45:00 AM  
Blogger ChicagoJoe69 said...

Cook County should step up and send MONEY to help out the Michigan Avenue folks!

They must be floating in cash as they just approved another paid holiday for their employees, Juneteenth.

Plus they entered an agreement with Metra to cut the fares coming into Chicago from the south suburbs by 50%.

Politicians love to spend other peoples money but never look out for the working folk.

12/18/2020 07:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i wont give an alderman to much credit......

just like a broken clock, they are correct 2x a day

12/18/2020 07:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

im not sure why the apple store stays open.....

i just ordered a new laptop on line, had it delivered to my house within 1 hour for a 5 dollar fee.

thanks mr apple :)

12/18/2020 07:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They say a good lawyer knows the answer before asking the question. Lin Wood is a great lawyer. He is openly making accusations about Chief Justice Roberts and each day more supporting evidence is coming out. Is the rumor about Roberts being compromised true. Click on the thread of pictures and videos and make your own assessment:

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1339811572554760192

12/18/2020 07:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All it takes is 26 Alderman to make a majority and take power from the Mayor. Remember the Vrydolak 29!
When Alderman had balls.

12/18/2020 07:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She's a proggie Democrat. For them, the solution is always raise taxes.

12/18/2020 07:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC and all,

Pls start archiving the MSM links. Use:

Archive.is

Or an equivalent. It blocks pop ups and doesn't give clicks to companies that hate us.

12/18/2020 08:57:00 AM  
Blogger Mark Felt said...

It would be interesting to know how much this area contributes to the tax base of Chicago. Might want to include that in one of these posts.

12/18/2020 08:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who is John Galt?

What is Atlas to do?
Shrug.

12/18/2020 09:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every Demoncrat would tax you at 100% if you let them.

12/18/2020 09:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hopkins countered that Lightfoot’s efforts to “achieve dictatorial rule of Chicago have been stymied, not because of aldermanic prerogative, but because the legislative branch is a co-equal branch of government.”




Is he sure about that? I've lived in Chicago for 60 years, never heard about that.

12/18/2020 09:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thinking outside the box - instead of using current tax dollars to subsidize the breeding and existence of the looters/shoplifters/robbers/carjackers/assaulters, why not use it to protect against them? Then, as their numbers and toxic influence dwindle, the downtown will gradually come back to life.

12/18/2020 09:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nah, the aldermen are just waiting to get paid. They give a fuck about downtown businesses. Or any businesses. Like the line from the Godfather, "...you have to let us wet our beak.."

12/18/2020 10:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago is destroyed. Thank you Lightfoot, Pritzker, Preckwinkle, Foxx, Dart, Evans, Joyce, Fioretti, Rahm and the entire Daley Crime Family.

12/18/2020 10:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s very simple. You can’t lure people downtown due to high crime. I haven’t been downtown in 5 years. Shootings, carjackings and looting don’t work for me. I will go to mid evil times to see battles while I eat. And, don’t get me started about the redline jihadists. And you want to put a casino into the mess?

12/18/2020 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Meanwhile, Whoopie on The Views says "Dr Jill Biden, Joe should make her the nations Surgeon General that she would be a very good one" (Jill is not an MD but a teacher with a PHD) LOL

12/18/2020 10:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Great Reset says you work for the State, the state doesn't work for you. Oh, my bad...that's communism.

12/18/2020 10:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

35% of all US dollars in existence have been printed in 10 months.

The money being created is not changing hands and therefore not being taxed at each iteration.

Velocity of M2 Money Stock

12/18/2020 10:33:00 AM  
Blogger froggy said...

Who gets hurt the most when these businesses close? Sure, the owners(risk takers) take a hit, but they accept the risk of opening a business. Its the workers in those shops, restaurants, hotels, parking lots. The people depending on the paychecks to pay rent, buy food, put gas in the car. And who are these workers, where do they come from? Most are people of color trying to make ends meet, put their kids thru school and move up the food chain. They're being wiped out and their alderman need to wake up and see they are struggling due to poor leadership and pols enriching themselves at the trough. Have we finally hit the lows necessary to make the change? Will Hispanics stop electing ex-gang members? Can Blacks finally see thru the revruns bullshit? This is it, this is the last chance to turn it around before handing it all over to Biff and the casino culture.

12/18/2020 10:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The struggling restaurants are allowed to deliver so then groot puts the hammer down capping delivery charges to 15%. On your $10 fast food delivery order you'll get $1.50 to pay you gas, phone, insurance, car maintenance!

So your struggling Grubhub, Door Dash, Uber Eats, etc.. gig workers get pushed further into poverty.

THEN she has the gall to implement a delivery tax to transfer wealth. This is on top of the downtown congestion tax, increased gasoline taxes, parking taxes, increased license plate fees, increased traffic fines, increased traffic stops, increases in insurance due to car jackings, oh and the new tax on the forced sale of your car when you try to sell it because the ride share companies will only allow newer vehicles.

The voting isn't over. Vote with your feet take your tax generating work to a red state thereby de-funding the democrat socialism machine.

12/18/2020 10:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how about a 50% reduction in worthless adercreatures!

12/18/2020 11:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Larri doesn’t know the facts. BTW, that’s her line when anyone challenges her.
Its either Larri LightFührer, her financial advisors or the downtown bankers that are that stupid, to try and raise taxes on a shuttered mercantile district and tourist desert...or they all want her ousted by feeding her bad advice. Oh but the homeowners don’t get that kind of reprieve...in these challenging and difficult times.

The Council finally woke up?
Who’s the alternative...in the next two years or sooner if Larri doesn’t up and quit next month.
Pissed away $470 million, doubled the city budget deficit and now and again, Larri LightLoafer is relying and demanding Washington DC to Do Their Job. Mmmm-mm-mmm.

Either way The Imbecile AngryToad has to go.

12/18/2020 11:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Rahm has former colleagues and friends who are involved and respect him, but no one is worth that sort of headache,” a senior Democrat who is advising the transition told Transition Playbook. “Labor didn’t want him at Transportation, civil rights groups didn’t want him, progressives didn’t want him. There simply is no constituency for Rahm Emanuel at this point.”

The left wing of the party, in particular, has made hate-tweeting Rahm their favorite pastime. But it was Emanuel’s handling of the 2014 year police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald that drew the most serious opposition, with some civil rights groups voicing objections, including the NAACP’s DERRICK JOHNSON, who said Emanuel was "not a principled leader or person."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/12/17/o-rahm-where-art-thou-792379

12/18/2020 12:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago test positive for Lori the Pylori. (If she would dye some woke liberal LGBTQ-BLM-ANTIFA orange spots in her hair she'd look like that covid spike protein wouldn't she?)

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a type of bacteria. These germs can enter your body and live in your digestive tract. After many years, they can cause sores, called ulcers, in the lining of your stomach or the upper part of your small intestine. For some people, an infection can lead to stomach cancer.

What are the first symptoms of H pylori?
Symptoms

An ache or burning pain in your abdomen.
Abdominal pain that's worse when your stomach is empty.
Nausea.
Loss of appetite.
Frequent burping.
Bloating.
Unintentional weight loss.

And I know that you can think of many more

12/18/2020 12:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two CHAZ's (CHicago Automatons Zones)

One on the west side and one on the south. lori has pulled out law enforcement there so anything goes and the brown shirts didn't even have to stack trash up in the streets as a community bulwark.

12/18/2020 12:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's a bright line between crime and punishment. The city is feeling the effects of that right now. I heard a radio interview between Craig Delamore and some alderman type on the the leftist newsradio station. The interviewee said that "extra security" in the downtown area is one of the things that the additional taxes would provide.

They had some ridiculous conversation about disorder in the area, refusing to accurately describe the problem: black youths from the south and west sides being violent and disrespectful, while the city government, the liberal press, the prosecutors, the judges, and the sheriff all do nothing to support any enforcement strategy.

Retailers know this. They can't pay huge rents and substantial wages just to have some groups of thugs enter their businesses, steal their inventory, and batter their employees and their patrons, while the city turns their collective heads. Unlike government, private business needs to make a profit, or they won't be in business. This simple concept is completely lost on our current leadership.

It's easier for these businesses to just pack up and leave then be the first to speak the truth, and tarnish their national brand, a brand that they have built on for decades. I don't blame them. Tourists and visitors can only snap off so many pictures of the skyline and the lakefront when they come to Chicago, they also need stores to shop at, restaurants to go to, attractions to visit. All of these types of businesses downtown are leaving, with or without COVID. And we all know why.

12/18/2020 01:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


So here’s what happens after the merchants leave and the stores become vacant. The building owners appeal their property taxes seeking a reduction from the county assessor citing a vacancy factor. The taxes are reduced resulting in the county not getting its full share of the pie and then the powers that be look for an increase in taxes from those commercial building owners that still have tenants trying to stick it out. But then those building owners pass the increase on to the remaining tenants who eventually can’t afford to stay, so now they leave and the cycle starts again. This city, county and state is so fucked.

12/18/2020 02:40:00 AM

Property taxes are only a part of it. If businesses leave the city also loses all their sales tax revenue

12/18/2020 01:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Groot the best thing ever to happen to out of state realtors

12/18/2020 01:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you are close to retiring be careful the order from Groot is to suspend those on their way out as a “parting gift.” It’s been budgeted in and they have numbers to meet. Everything now is at least 1-3 Days and with a retirees held captive the hope is they all just take it.

12/18/2020 02:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I own a business on Michigan Ave (not a store, but a business that rents office space). 20 of our 30 employees are based here. I have told our employees "We are libertarian, you can make your own decisions but we have decided not to work out of our Michigan Ave offices anymore because it's not safe. And, the Mayor has asked property owners and businesses to pony up more dollars for protection." I'm sorry but that sounds like the Mob and that's not how a business owner thinks. I have four words for you Lori Lightfoot: WE ARE OUTTA HERE!

Without the good work and support of CPD, our city is nothing...now we're planning to pack up our 20 year history here, my family, the economic value I generate in this city and move to Indiana. At least gun ownership rules are easier. I'm really not too excited about being a Chicago crime statistic. To think that we are the national winners of the homicide, shooting and car jacking triple crown, well, um, I don't think I want to be here on award night.

12/18/2020 03:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She will be re-elected like Foxx. We are the minority, shit probably our own adult children will vote this failure back in. Identity politics works.

12/18/2020 03:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago
The Groot Version


Frog Butcherer of the City,
Fool Maker, Stacker of Bodies,
Player of Failing roads and the Nation's Fruit Handler;
Smarmy, pesky, crawling,
City of the Slumped Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your tainted aldermen under the gas lamps luring the farm girls.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of hopeless fear.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning enough to reap such Federal benefits, unmitigated taxation and to boldly refute all natural things.

Flinging fragmenting weapons amid the toil of piling dead on dead, here is a tall bold Taker set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Boneheaded,
Shuffling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Burning, breaking, re-burning,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a crazed man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never had a job,
Bragging and laughing that upon his wrist is a Rolex, and over his ribs a vest made of kevlar,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, crazy, bawling laughter that can only be induced by drugs, half-naked, sweating, proud to be a Butcher, Fool Maker, Stacker of Bodies, Slayer of the futures of men and Pan Handler to the Nation.

12/18/2020 03:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL! Businesses willing to increase their own taxes? BS! I guarantee it's low end businesses willing to tax the high end earners. And now Lootfoot wants to tax the very businesses she allowed to be looted!

12/18/2020 04:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3]42 Sandburg Esate wants residual,,but must say brilliant

12/18/2020 05:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

or as BOBBY RUSH once stated ""fuck ya[all Christmas tree""

12/18/2020 05:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I own a business on Michigan Ave (not a store, but a business that rents office space). 20 of our 30 employees are based here. I have told our employees "We are libertarian, you can make your own decisions but we have decided not to work out of our Michigan Ave offices anymore because it's not safe. And, the Mayor has asked property owners and businesses to pony up more dollars for protection." I'm sorry but that sounds like the Mob and that's not how a business owner thinks. I have four words for you Lori Lightfoot: WE ARE OUTTA HERE!

Without the good work and support of CPD, our city is nothing...now we're planning to pack up our 20 year history here, my family, the economic value I generate in this city and move to Indiana. At least gun ownership rules are easier. I'm really not too excited about being a Chicago crime statistic. To think that we are the national winners of the homicide, shooting and car jacking triple crown, well, um, I don't think I want to be here on award night.

12/18/2020 03:07:00 PM

I am a residential agent. I feel your pain.

12/18/2020 07:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

[...] Plus they entered an agreement with Metra to cut the fares coming into Chicago from the south suburbs by 50%. [...]

Can’t come downtown to loot if you gotts to pay for the train don’t you know.

12/18/2020 08:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lightfoot wants to institute a CVT. That is a Crime Victim's Tax. If you are a crime victim, file a police report and a claim with your insurance, Lightfoot wants half the money for the Mayor's Office of Inclusion & Diversity. Used to be the Mayor's Office of Graft & Corruption.

12/18/2020 08:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
She will be re-elected like Foxx. We are the minority, shit probably our own adult children will vote this failure back in. Identity politics works.

12/18/2020 03:15:00 PM

Wrong. Her re-election isn’t that easy and it’s far different than the states attorney election. Fox ran against a republican. Lightfoot will run against 10-14 other terrible democrat candidates. Lightfoot has to make it to the top 2. Right now she is hated like no other mayor in Chicago’s history. Her lying dictator hypocrite abrasive personality coupled with her destruction of downtown, increase in violent crime and defunding and demoralizing the police is causing public outrage. Aldermen are starting to turn on her too. They know how people feel about her. Unfortunately she had 2.5 years left to destroy Chicago.

12/18/2020 08:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
I own a business on Michigan Ave (not a store, but a business that rents office space). 20 of our 30 employees are based here. I have told our employees "We are libertarian, you can make your own decisions but we have decided not to work out of our Michigan Ave offices anymore because it's not safe. And, the Mayor has asked property owners and businesses to pony up more dollars for protection." I'm sorry but that sounds like the Mob and that's not how a business owner thinks. I have four words for you Lori Lightfoot: WE ARE OUTTA HERE!

Without the good work and support of CPD, our city is nothing...now we're planning to pack up our 20 year history here, my family, the economic value I generate in this city and move to Indiana. At least gun ownership rules are easier. I'm really not too excited about being a Chicago crime statistic. To think that we are the national winners of the homicide, shooting and car jacking triple crown, well, um, I don't think I want to be here on award night.

12/18/2020 03:07:00 PM

I’m very sorry to hear what Lightfoot and the aldermen have done to your business. But please stick around long enough to vote her and the aldermen out. Tell your friends and employees to do the same. Very sad what Lightfoot has done to Chicago but the aldermen can stop her but they don’t.

12/18/2020 09:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
If you are close to retiring be careful the order from Groot is to suspend those on their way out as a “parting gift.” It’s been budgeted in and they have numbers to meet. Everything now is at least 1-3 Days and with a retirees held captive the hope is they all just take it.

12/18/2020 02:54:00 PM

Suspend for what? You’re a goof

12/18/2020 09:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So concerning the warrant caper and Lori’s Remarque (French Spelling), have you noticed that no one in the media has used the word LIE, in regard to her conduct? Neil Steinberg. Are you paying attention?

12/18/2020 09:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Groot the best thing ever to happen to out of state realtors".

So is Newsome, Di Blasio, Coumo, and the rest of the dopes running Portland, Seattle, San Fran and LA.

12/18/2020 10:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This should be printed out and flyers flown from city hall for all to see. I am sorry what has happened to you sir, but we all feel it here in Illinois. Terrible place to live and Chicago is the worst. How quickly a few leftist can tear down such a great city.

Anonymous said...
I own a business on Michigan Ave (not a store, but a business that rents office space). 20 of our 30 employees are based here. I have told our employees "We are libertarian, you can make your own decisions but we have decided not to work out of our Michigan Ave offices anymore because it's not safe. And, the Mayor has asked property owners and businesses to pony up more dollars for protection." I'm sorry but that sounds like the Mob and that's not how a business owner thinks. I have four words for you Lori Lightfoot: WE ARE OUTTA HERE!

Without the good work and support of CPD, our city is nothing...now we're planning to pack up our 20 year history here, my family, the economic value I generate in this city and move to Indiana. At least gun ownership rules are easier. I'm really not too excited about being a Chicago crime statistic. To think that we are the national winners of the homicide, shooting and car jacking triple crown, well, um, I don't think I want to be here on award night.

12/18/2020 03:07:00 PM

I am a residential agent. I feel your pain.


12/18/2020 11:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

in 2004 when the economy started on the downswing the city had a huge buyout. like now, many more left than expected. daley fucked us on the way out the door by not paying any of the retirees back pay that everyone else got. said the city couldnt afford it as they handed out grants and contracts like the end of the world. i lost 4500.00 in back pay in 2004. he also paid everyone accumulated vacation days and personal days at a lower rate of pay, the title you started in, such as a sarge getting patrolmans pay for v time. the latter has been in court with krislov for 16 years, the city probably spent more on lawyers than the 3.00 an hour we were shorted. the backpay was signed off on by the unions so its just gone. dont discount out of hand that the notorious groot wouldnt try to dick you out of a few bucks on the way out the door. how long and how hard would you fight over a couple days if it held up your retirement in this felonious atmosphere. beware the groot. p.s. ten years later after tripling our medical cost the city cancelled our retiree insurance. you are nothing but a liability to these people, they hate you, dont drop the soap around the groot thing.

12/19/2020 02:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s over, downtown and the mag mile are overrun by thugs that the mayor refuses to police in the proper way, get out while the getting is good, move out of Chicago and cook county, quit paying taxes in this cess pool

12/19/2020 06:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In illinois , cook county , city of chicago we have taxation without representation. when elected officials vote the party instead of what the citizens want we have ternary.

12/19/2020 07:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Retire if you can and look to other police departments if you are short timers. The dwarf will either bail at some point or be challenged by Crimesha...! Be forward thinking...if you think it’s bad now imagine a lantern-jawed Mayor Crimesha. Don’t say it can’t happen...you’ve been warned!

12/19/2020 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In my last two months on the job, I was called in to pee THREE TIMES. No medical roll abuse, CR numbers, or any type of "personal concern" bullshit going on. Pure coincidence I was told. But I'm sure, being not yet 55, if I thought I might piss hot, I could resign and retire without my insurance. As the saying goes, IT AINT OVER TIL ITS OVER! When you take that retirement picture and they hand it to you, ITS OVER. Until then, that department still owns a huge chunk of your ass...DON'T LET THEM GET YOU AT THE END!

12/19/2020 10:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rham destroyed downtown before Groot. Groot finished the job for him.

12/20/2020 04:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If I was a store front operator I would be asking for a refund on the services not rendered and to get the officers I did not receive from the taxes I already paid.

12/20/2020 01:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm NOT LEO but I've read this blog for years and maybe 2 comments in all that time but if Groot is pissing and moaning about more money to fix the businesses her "community" destroyed, have her sue her "community"! blm and antifa both have HUGE bank accounts, go get some!

In the meantime, y'all watch your asses out there!

12/22/2020 05:17:00 PM  

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