No One Left to Tax
Tying into the Business Insurance post a few spaces down:
Commercial property owners along pandemic-ravaged North Michigan Avenue will not be asked to pay higher property taxes to bankroll security improvements spurred by two rounds of looting and nearly constant demonstrations.
Not yet, at least.
A proposal to create a special taxing district for commercial properties fronting Michigan, from Oak Street south to the Chicago River, stalled in the City Council’s Committee on Economic and Capital Development on Monday at the behest of two local aldermen.
Could it have anything to do with this?
- On a recent walk down the Mag Mile, we counted 34 of 108 storefronts closed, most permanently and many boarded up. People we spoke to said it’s “dangerous” to stay after dark, and almost all of the shops now close by 6 p.m. After decades of investment and development in Chicago’s Streeterville, River North and Loop neighborhoods, it would be devastating — to Chicago’s economy and its image — to let Michigan Avenue and the downtown district turn into the Meh Mile.
Groot has well and truly murdered one of the larger economic engines of the City.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
109 Comments:
Another 3 yrs with this current city leadership will be complete disaster. Chicago has elected an Imbecile clown who has no knowledge or experience in running a multi billion dollar Organization. Sell and get the f out now while your property is still worth something.
Except homeowners, the masses!
Blame the idiot on the 5th floor of City Hall.
All planned and designed. There are no accidents or coincidences. Destroy business and force people onto unemployment and make them used to getting a check from the government, then usher in universal basic income. Of course, it will barely be enough to buy food and pay rent for the proletariats.
Their plan though, is going to take a detour, and in very short order. Prepare accordingly and have enough food, water, and necessary medicines and supplies. Antifa and BLM will, along with their handlers, be dealt with by men ready to do violent things to them.
Any by the way, the police will have no jurisdiction until the military is finished.
You've been warned.
Ya know, I'm just a citizen who lived in Streeterville since the early 90's and left in January but reading this got me choked up. What a shame that assholic mayor-wanna be let this happen on her watch with no remorse or shame. What are they trying to prove? Why do they want the people with $ leaving because they are bailing. Be safe officers. God be with all of you.
Tax the teachers. Tax the fucking scum of the earth.
When voters vote for communism and green light crime, this is what they get. Not hard to figure out where a doomed city goes from here.
When the only people left are illegals and link card welfare mutts the mag mile will soon resemble halsted st before university village was built.
Mag Mile Christmas season killed off ..small stores are kaput ..with no help from FU Brillo head lori ..niece lives in Orland ..the 143rd St and Southwest Highway Metra parking lot is still empty... no downtown business or work in sight
There's a REASON the Covid vaccine is being distributed
by FedEx and UPS. The USPS ("Post Office") doesn't have
the specialized freezers. Then there's the issues of late and
lost mail.
Where is Sabina's Fr Pfaker ? Ever since Fr pfaker held a memorial service on Oak St for a rapper / gang member killed on Oak/Michigan last summer . Father Pfaker has been muted
As a citizen I’m shocked what Lightfoot has done to this great city in less than 2 years. It’s absolutely astonishing! Downtown is vital to the state of Illinois. You think Pritzker would care? He probably doesn’t care about the state but he does have a home downtown. If she has any hope for re-election she better keep all the police downtown on the corners permanently. It makes us feel safer. If the businesses get looted and the innocent are attacked again, she’s toast. He grand idea of not hiring is also probably going to do her in. Who would want the job anyway with her as the mayor and forced residency?
Yup.
12 mo. ago that area was screaming with tourists willing to pay 50$ for a pizza or 15$ for a beef.
Area was relatively safe.
Worked it recently and had a shooting and a murder in one night. Unheard of in the last 15 years
Dead, cashed out, tits up, bankrupt
Nobody is coming here, the Citizens ain't coming here.
Nice job e.t., why don't you phone home and get the fu$% out of here.
Now that it looks like President Trump won't get a second term, it's perfectly safe for "news" outlets to draw attention to this problem...and not what caused it or who's responsible.
The next great idea will be their "simple" solution - bailout money, cheap loans, and tax breaks for the struggling businesses.
In the meantime, the average citizen will be paying for all of these things, one way or the other; higher taxes, higher retail prices, etc.
rb
The mayor is not up to the job of heading a large, once prosperous city. As the gene pool devolves, existence gets downgraded more and more. We should remember diversity is our strength, even if it is lower IQ.
Maybe she could get a job appearing in commercials, seems to be a quota nowadays...
Mayor keeps supporting Kim foxx Let that city burn and put into ground. That’s what lightfoot wanted. Give her what she wants. She will go down in history for worse Chicago leader ever. Hope she is proud of who she is and what she supports. Go BLM !
Chicago has become Detroit (as has Minneapolis). The atrophy is irreversible at this point. Anyone who can easily move, will do so. The stream of people moving out will become a river, then a torrent. Property values will crash and taxes will soar to compensate. Death spiral.
Ideally, the rest of Illinois would secede from the state, leaving Cook county alone to fester.
In other news, a NY teacher's union finally opens up with their end goal:
https://mobile.twitter.com/wesyang/status/1329564019942973441
In other other news, Burt's Bees is in trouble for an ad with a "non-nuclear fam"
https://hellobeautiful.com/3248106/burts-bees-issues-an-apology-after-offensive-holiday-ad-features-a-fatherless-black-family/
The meth mile. The murder mile. The last ( end of the road ) mile.
The Left eat their own. F them. These brain dead fools aligned themselves with commies
The slave to fashion doesn’t care, the Groot is waiting for a job offer form Kameltoe.
I refuse to go into the city any more. With shootings and carjackings happening downtown in broad daylight, I have zero reason to be there. I used to think of downtown as safe at most hours, but no more. Wildings got me started on staying away and the near daily reports of mugging and shootings will keep me away. Hope Groot enjoys revisiting the Loop as it was in the 1970’s. And all you suburban companies that moved into the city? Enjoy your head taxes and paying for real estate that none of your employees want to use.
What a stupid piece of writing. Nowhere in the glowing plans to decorate the downtown does it mention that young women like me who live downtown who previously walked home alone on Mich Ave at 9pm are afraid of being jumped. My friend’s car was in his car at an intersection at one of the bridges stopped at a light when he got jumped by three guys. The light turned and he got away. So- here’s a thought. Let those police officers arrest the thugs, and order Foxx to keep them locked up. Then see that the atmosphere might start to change. Until then? Nope.
3rd world chicago!
Will it be Meh Mile or Meth Mile? I’m thinking Meth Mile once we legalize all drugs - that’s Groot’s Part II Plan for full destruction of Chicago. She’s getting her cues from the west coast.
This is what the death spiral looks like.
Nice job Groot!
Slag Mile! Time to open strip clubs; degenerate alcoholic bars that are open until 4AM, close until 5, reopen at 5:01am, and a bunch of plexiglass palaces to shop at. Shitty's done...
Don’t worry they will gouge the middle class property owners, they always take up the slack, and take it up the back!
The She/He Mayor isn't doing this on accident. Get your foil helmets on, it's all to decimate the American economy. Create two "realities". Elite class and the rest that need the Government to have life. USSR reimagined for USA.
When we were kids, downtown was somewhere you just didn't go to at night. It was dangerous. I think it took years to turn it around and our little bug eyed Groot accomplished this feat of slaughter in a couple of years! You go gurl! Maybe you can take advice from that former alderman Arena to put lots of section 8 housing in up north and accomplish some more white flight. I know I'm just champing at the bit to pay 400k for a 25x125 lot with a 40 year old 1200 sq ft house on it.Sort of like what happened to Chatham. Nice, well maintained city homes in a middle class black neighborhood that got turned to shit by section 8 wolves among the middle class sheep.
Frogzilla
Groot will create a ‘looting’ fine to close more stores. She’ll fine any business that dares to report that they were mass-shoplifted, ransacked or looted by any inner-city resident.
Business lives matter...
Larry Lightwieght is not a leader. She is an activist. She is the most visible activist in the city and represents the failed among us. She has built nothing. She never has and she never will. Like her voters and supporters she is a parasite living off the host which is itself, dying.
Seems the new guy on am 890 is reading the blog. He just call asked what would happen if the Mag Mile became the Meh mile? The 0530 show.
One fire truck and 2 horses could keep downtown safe when the temp drops. Soak those rapscallions and watch them skedattle. Takes the fight right out of them and their half dry when they get home.
Next case
5 handguns recovered on (2) traffic stops last night in 018 off Michigan Avenue. If you are headed downtown, arm yourself and be careful.
This is what happens when we elect inept ideologs who want to play in the sand box with Their toy police forces. People Die, businesses close, Lives are ruined and a City is lost. Chicago is the beginning of a nationwide effort to destroy city after city. the goal is to get everyone on the dole and then its socialism. In 20 years we wont recognize this country. Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, LA, Baltimore and it goes on.
The warning signs were obvious to me in 2015. I left the city that I loved for a safe area in a solvent state. What a shame!
Death spiral.
Lori Lightfoot is a killing machine.
Failing to keep the “protesting” criminals in check, she has killed the Mag Mile.
No sympathy here, the Near North and Gold coast are staunch LL supporters.
Enjoy your hell!
Anonymous said...
As a citizen I’m shocked what Lightfoot has done to this great city in less than 2 years. It’s absolutely astonishing! Downtown is vital to the state of Illinois. You think Pritzker would care? He probably doesn’t care about the state but he does have a home downtown. If she has any hope for re-election she better keep all the police downtown on the corners permanently. It makes us feel safer. If the businesses get looted and the innocent are attacked again, she’s toast. He grand idea of not hiring is also probably going to do her in. Who would want the job anyway with her as the mayor and forced residency?
12/16/2020 12:33:00 AM
Seeing Kim Foxxx getting reelected, LL is going to stick around as long as she wants!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Now that it looks like President Trump won't get a second term, it's perfectly safe for "news" outlets to draw attention to this problem...and not what caused it or who's responsible.
The next great idea will be their "simple" solution - bailout money, cheap loans, and tax breaks for the struggling businesses.
In the meantime, the average citizen will be paying for all of these things, one way or the other; higher taxes, higher retail prices, etc.
rb
12/16/2020 12:51:00 AM
Maybe President Trump used the art of the deal watch this very informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R4kUuJtqdQ
When the only people left are illegals and link card welfare mutts the mag mile will soon resemble halsted st before university village was built.
12/16/2020 12:22:00 AM
:) takes me back to the days of being with the 1st husband and when he'd occasionally work weekends, I'd drive him to work downtown and we'd take halsted sometimes. I remember the metal roller business covers with locks on the bottom lol
F U larry and crew
Only a third closed forEVER. Not bad.
They need to get to 45%. This is when Pritzkers investment fund company with support from his China spy partners can buy buildings at super cheap but with in reach that they can turn the city around in a decade.
It's all about the control n power for some and NWO for others.
( Loop hasn't really been safe since Daily. It was always a protected island that the gangs knew to stay away from. With the Dem's and now Foxx ... open season ).
Reminds me of south Halsted between the river and Roosevelt, open for business during the day but come evening all the doors came rolling down and became a ghost town until daylight. Kinda like vampires or something.
No worries about downtown business. The weed stores are doing great.
The globalist goal of COVID is to paint government as some sort of trusted savior, in order to usher in a federal nanny-state. Good ole Fauci the Wise, trust his guidance through the Dark Winter, all will be well. Trust Science. If you trust your false religions you are an enemy of the state.
Wait until you see the bottom line for all these Catholic schools and churches that lost revenue from carnivals, fund raisers, loss of daily collections, and loss of participation in Church. The end game is to eliminate the Republican base: small businesses, organized religion, undermine the courts and defund the police,
Looks like it is going as planned and our only hope is that all Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike speak up and not let it happen. All the Never Trumpers who read this blog, what is taking place now in this country has nothing to do with Trump, it is the great Reset for the globalists. Not you, it is about a small minority of globalists taking over the world for their benefit. We can't let this happen and this election, the way it was so brazen and corrupt, is the litmus test for us all. Stand up and be heard and unite. We will only get one chance and it is now. Our Republic will never recover and we will all be guilty if we don't resist.
Stay safe police officers, big changes are coming soon and we will see how we react to what is coming.
The new socialist government will take over these properties and use them to hand out free bread and cheese.
Worked the Michigan Ave detail last night and 6-7 guns were recovered. WTF.
It's not turning into the Meh Mile - it's turning into the Mag Mal.
Where is Sabina's Fr Pfaker ?
fucker is in the basement of sabima having a huge rummage sale of all the shit looted by his parishioners.
Dangerous to stay after dark? Are you fucking kidding me? It’s dangerous 24 hours a day in this shit hole city!!!
off topic but who is fatass kidding with his 711m in budget cuts?
Chicago used to be a great town. I remember many years ago my mother and me went downtown to Christmas shop. We had lunch at the Carousal in the Sky, a revolving restaurant, at the Morrison Hotel. Cocktails were at the Top of the Rock in the Prudential building and dinner was at Don Roth's Blackhawk.
This was in the early 60's and I was new on the job. I don't even remember if I was armed, but at that time we felt safe. I'm glad I was able to have these kind of experiences, however they're gone today in Chicago and most, if not all, large cities never to return until maybe, just maybe, lawmakers and the courts do their jobs and start protecting the populace again.
No federal bailout money for big cities run and destroyed by Democrats!
Such bailouts only encourage the Democrats to further destroy once-great cities.
The real name is "Manure Mile"
Insurance is the ultimate equalizer. It is not a product you buy but an enterprise in which you are a participant. All the abandoned, burned and unrepaired properties citywide were not uninsured but underinsured. Through deductibles, you must participate in your own protection, cover 80% of the replacement value or you claim is settled at actual cash value on a prorated basis. Don’t worry though because the Mag Mile will look just as good with nail salons, used hubcap shops and storefront churches.
Please stop attacking a successful black women, such as Lori Lightfoot. She is a social justice warrior and is attempting to fix centuries of injustice and racism. She will be done as soon as the Gold Coast looks like Fillmore.
nonymous said...
There's a REASON the Covid vaccine is being distributed
by FedEx and UPS. The USPS ("Post Office") doesn't have
the specialized freezers. Then there's the issues of late and
lost mail.
12/16/2020 12:29:00 AM
And, then there is the issue of corruption, theft and piss poor employees.
Someone fears for Chicago's "image"? I think Chicago's "image" is already bloodied, and lying face down in the gutter.
Well what did you expect to happen when you realized ...The Police are the problem.
Better keep voting Democrat to get yourself out of this one.
I read the comments blaming Groot for the downfall and I think to myself, this started long before Groot was even in the picture. Richie Daley became woke with his doctor girlfriend and started backing off and then Obama's Chief of Staff, good ole 9 1/2 stepped in and started the destruction. Groot is just too stupid to see it so she/he took the job thinking she/he was king shit.
Chicago is gone and Rahm is the major cause. And guess what folks, Rahm will be going back to D.C. to help the Harris Administration(Biden is brain dead) do the same thing nationwide.
Start learning to live off the land in the middle of no where. It is the only place where you might live freely in the coming years. The American Dream is DOA!
But I heard Groot on the radio this morning saying the businesses want to pay more taxes
"I refuse to go into the city any more. With shootings and carjackings happening downtown in broad daylight, I have zero reason to be there. I used to think of downtown as safe at most hours, but no more."
THIS in a nutshell...
Just reviewed Block Club Chicago's latest edition.
Kenwood Liquors on Stony Island Avenue is closing after 62 years. The decision is explained, by the owners, after being looted this year it was not financially viable to stay in business.
Save A Lot in Austin is closing their store without offering a reason. Could it be that the looting and theft by the customers led to this decision?
The closings are not only hitting Michigan Avenue but the outlying communities also!
The finger should be pointed at Crimesha, Evans, Lightfoot and Preckwinkle for driving businesses from the neighborhoods that support them with their socialist policies.
https://reason.com/2020/12/15/teachers-union-covid-vaccine-schools-chicago-coronavirus/
The 2000 new non-union employees at CPS will be contributing to the tax base to cover teachers drawing full union pay "on da couch".
OT but important /read a book: Putin Country by Anne Garrels, who ha been reporting on USSR, now Russia for almost 40 years- chapter “Freedom of Speech” sounds very much like Chicago reporting, except it’s Russia!!! The book is excellent but that one chapter could be about Chicago if you insert Groot for Putin and ch 2 5 7 9 32 for their tv stations - it is the shape of things to come here-get this book, read it and be ready for the future-
Hey Wheel Gunners & Chicago Police Dept. (AS) Patch Wearers. Remember How The New Recruits
That Were In Their Brand New Blues Were All Taken Out Of Districts & The Academy And Detailed
To The Christmas Window Detail Downtown. I Remember Our 1st Roll Call On The Friday After Thanksgiving
Day, CMDR PAUL V. Of The 001 District Gave Us Our Marching Orders “DON’T EMBARRASS ME IN FRONT
OF THE STATE ST. BUSINESS COUNCIL BY F###### UP, THE ONLY REASON YOUR DOWN HERE IS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEW CLEAN UNIFORMS AND THE MAYOR LIKES IMPRESSING LOCAL
SHOPPERS & VISITORS”. Now We Have Tumble Weed Blowing Down Business/Shopping Streets And Half
Our District Watches & Tact Teams Detailed Downtown Dressed For War Because Of The (WHAT IF FACTOR)
Blame The Downtown Death Spiral On The Chinese Virus, Nothing Else But The Virus. Keep Telling Us That
Excuse Mayor Hate Face,
Slag Mile! Time to open strip clubs; degenerate alcoholic bars that are open until 4AM, close until 5, reopen at 5:01am, and a bunch of plexiglass palaces to shop at. Shitty's done...
12/16/2020 01:55:00 AM
Hey, ya think they'll bring the Woods theater back?
They need to extend that seeing how tge rioters and looters got all the way up to North and Clyborn on the north and Roosevelt and Canal to the south.
Hard working, family oriented, successful people are absolutely despised by the left. Now that their plan is in full swing by decimating all urban engines they are much closer to a depression era state whereby all are dependent on the government teat.
Create the riots, then tax the victims for "protection" - how can the Mayor and Governor not be removed and thrown in jail like other thugs.
The Maleficent Mile
CCP and their viruses, tech-toadies and D-puppets (knowing or useful-idiots) are destroying the country without a shot being fired.
The election theft was the coup de grâce.
McCain was a lousy candidate, as was mom-jeans Mitt, but one wonders if their elections were also tainted. Philly had a higher % for sparkles than Chicago, with many 100% districts. Once in, he loaded up the SES with acolytes who continue to stall, delay and leak. The GOP rinos in residence were easily bribed or threatened with exposure of God only knows what secret predilictions. Paul Ryan neutered any legislative actions for Trumps first two years, then ducked out and got rewards aplenty (he's on the Board of Fox now, among other perks / payoffs). Several top .mil brass undercut Trump, left, and got Board seats at Lockmart and other DoD giants.
Who knows how many Swiss bank account deposits or just pallets of cash have been handed out. Never seen so many traitors and turncoats trying to undermine a sitting President.
The corruption is mind-bending.
Read Solzhenitsyn. Everything leading up to, during and after 1917 Russia.
When they send you guys out to arrest and confiscate those who won't take the mRNA/DNA shots or surrender their firearms, think about 1917.
As for the complicit media, watch the classic "They Live" with the late Roddy Piper.
God help this country.
One thing about these leftists is that they are always looking ahead and how to prevent people from having alternatives to their crap. Long-term, it's to make the entire USA as messed-up as California or Illinois, but that could take some time given how many red states we have.
Short-term, look for leftists to begin working hard to take-over DuPage County and a few other surrounding counties with Soros-funded prosecutors, board members, and law enforcement. Right now, people in Cook County can flee to surrounding counties and improve their quality of life. You're already seeing it in things like shopping habits, gasoline purchases, etc..
Once people leave Cook County, Prewinkle and Lightfoot can't tax them or touch them. They hate that loss of control. Leftists are all about controlling others.
Senator Mitch McConnell is in on the whole voting machine scam. He received donations from Dominion in March and crushed bills on voter integrity. It begs to reason why he was so quick to call Beijing Biden the winner. Corruption in DC on a massive scale.
https://thekylebecker.substack.com/p/mcconnell-threatens-gop-senators
She made a deal with the Dems. Real estate is going to plunge and the Dem donor buzzards are in wait. JB and his disgusting drooling mouth can’t wait to quit the governor spot so cash in on McPier & MacCormick. Larri is an imbecile, a lying imbecile. Easily fooled and actually so gullible that she believes she has allies and friends that will reward her.
“Groot has well and truly murdered one of the larger economic engines of the City.”
- true dat.
Notice she’s got her greedy little sausage fingers deep into concessions, bidness and preferred lobbyist contract approvals including seed money from the last Covid related CARES Act funding, involving the original economic engine - O’Hare Aeroport.
Let’s hope the Fed is now convinced that Larri is operating a subversive covert, behind the scenes operation without any council authority or scrutiny since the recent No-Bid laptop deal she made with a campaign donor. Btw, last time I checked Larri had like $40,000 in her Friends 4 Larri account. Where they’ donations going and on what? Hmmmmm?
The local mainstream FakeNews never delved or bothered to do a story about that recent CPS No Bid deal with her generous donor. Won’t aak her, she remains in hiding only speaking to select invited guests at brief events, which is about one every 4-6 weeks since March when she shut down City Hall.
Whenever the media gets an opportunity to ask her anything, nothing critical of course, you can tell that her guilt triggers her bipolar trip wire and she displays that gravel croaking impediment trait of three syllables at a time speaking cadence.
Larri is corrupt as her predecessors. This one should be easily indictable.
Talked to some of the coppers who have been working downtown and they said it's like a ghost town. No foot or vehicular traffic and very few shoppers. It's hard to fathom how much revenue has been lost since the kung fu flu hit the area.
Never thought that our once glorious downtown would turn into the Cabrini Green nightmare. Lori Lightfoot - the destroyer of Chicago.
Only hope is one of the great leader's u mentioned "KICKS".
All planned and designed. There are no accidents or coincidences. Destroy business and force people onto unemployment and make them used to getting a check from the government, then usher in universal basic income. Of course, it will barely be enough to buy food and pay rent for the proletariats.
12/16/2020 12:19:00 AM
Why Small Businesses Should Stay Closed Forever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9ltm_Gml0
rb
Their plan though, is going to take a detour, and in very short order. Prepare accordingly and have enough food, water, and necessary medicines and supplies. Antifa and BLM will, along with their handlers, be dealt with by men ready to do violent things to them.
Any by the way, the police will have no jurisdiction until the military is finished.
You've been warned.
12/16/2020 12:19:00 AM
AntiFa and BLM were just useful idiots to the democrats. They're no longer needed, so now it's okay for enforcement action to be taken against them.
NFAC Grand Master J (John Johnson) arrested for pointing a rifle at Louisville PD, FBI, and Secret Service agents. Doesn’t look like the democrats have much need for him anymore...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh07pvoavHg
rb
First you get the tumbleweeds and then you get the wolves...or maybe Chicago has reversed that
Headline:
77K kids — 37% of eligible students — plan to return for in-person learning, CPS says
Main story:
In her comments at the monthly Board of Education meeting, Jackson did not immediately provide a racial breakdown of the students who told the district they intend to return, so it remains unclear if CPS will mirror similar large urban school systems nationwide in which a disproportionate number of families sending their children back to schools are white. A CPS spokesman said more details will be presented Wednesday afternoon.
*So would it be safe to say “white” (what is white? Derogatory name for Caucasian?) parenting care more about educated children? Not racism assholes that wrote story and Janice overpaid cps top hack? Wtf is Larry scared clown doing? Order teachers back and if kids don’t comeback let so called parents teach their childruns! Never have we seen such a cowardly mayor big talk no action? As Larry skyrocketed taxes and gave communist teachers 16% raise to sit home!
Tired of the nonsense the msm are shitting out every day? Check out X22 Report.com. Podcast posted up twice a day. About 45 minutes each. Stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Share it. Spread it around. Shits gonna hit the proverbial fan soon.
The left is using this China-virus to destroy the middle class, they don't want capitalism to succeed. Even the false prophet Pope, the soon to be partner of the Anti-Christ, is touting socialism over capitalism. This is the left's big push, all or nothing.
Politicians who hatched or went along with this plan, along with the complicit media, need to face justice. These trials can't be trusted to our corrupt criminal court system, but military tribunals need to be held. Carry out the sentences swiftly, and in public view as a deterrent to those who may attempt to steal our liberties in the future.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slag Mile! Time to open strip clubs; degenerate alcoholic bars that are open until 4AM, close until 5, reopen at 5:01am, and a bunch of plexiglass palaces to shop at. Shitty's done...
12/16/2020 01:55:00 AM
Yeah! West Madison. Skid row. I remember the Burlesque joints, stepping over the winos literally in the gutters. Those were the days. A bum was a bum, a whore was a whore, a dope addict thief was a dope addict thief and a cop did what needed to be done. Everyone knew who and what they were and in many cases some even rose above it all with guts and the sheer determination to better themselves.
When the mental institutions were emptied a whole new wave of politicians was born.
In other other news, Burt's Bees is in trouble for an ad with a "non-nuclear fam"
https://hellobeautiful.com/3248106/burts-bees-issues-an-apology-after-offensive-holiday-ad-features-a-fatherless-black-family/
12/16/2020 01:04:00 AM
Oh the horror of it all! The mob will be after them. It's true, it's not just a stereotype, but it's one of those things they call racist if anyone speaks up about it in any way at all. Every one is upset over it but not much concern for the black on black crime and the correlation to not having a positive male role model in the kids life. Compare percentages. The percentage of White children under 18 who live with both parents almost doubles that of Black children. Then they bend over into a pretzel trying to say how sorry they are when what was stated in the picture is representative of a maority of black America today.
"Burt’s Bees Baby is actively and continually working on our own inclusion and diversity journey as an organization". Yet another useless company that probably gives or will give to BLM/Antifa.
The Top Three Biggest Problems Facing The Black Community
1) Lack of fathers in the home
2) Lack of fathers in the home
3) Lack of fathers in the home
But let's talk about the allegedly "racist" @realDonaldtrump…
— Larry Elder
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/12/to-truly-reduce-racial-disparities-we-must-acknowledge-black-fathers-matter/
The Loop came back to life when financial futures exploded on the exchanges. They created a demand for office space, bars & restaurants, hotels and apartments. Those days are gone and there is nothing that can create that same economic development. Anyone who worked the exchanges in the late 70's early 80's remembers the flop houses and deserted office buildings along Jackson, Van Buren, Clark, Wells, Wacker. Forget going west of the river. River North didn't exist except for the peep shows. Metra ridership is down 90%. No more than 3 people on office building elevators that were once jammed with people rushing to work. Companies can't except the health risk of bringing workers back.
Its over. ITS OVER!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slag Mile! Time to open strip clubs; degenerate alcoholic bars that are open until 4AM, close until 5, reopen at 5:01am, and a bunch of plexiglass palaces to shop at. Shitty's done...
12/16/2020 01:55:00 AM
Yeah! West Madison. Skid row. I remember the Burlesque joints, stepping over the winos literally in the gutters. Those were the days. A bum was a bum, a whore was a whore, a dope addict thief was a dope addict thief and a cop did what needed to be done. Everyone knew who and what they were and in many cases some even rose above it all with guts and the sheer determination to better themselves.
When the mental institutions were emptied a whole new wave of politicians was born.
12/16/2020 03:51:00 PM
Loved your response. I had one grandfather that I never met that died a Madison Ave piss bum. My other grandfather was a Saint out of the Jimmy Stewart mold that worked as a cop out of 020 back when it was filled with Honkey Tonk taverns and bars frequented by violent Native Americans.
You can guess which one I try to emulate! It hasnt been easy but so far so good as I close in on my twenty years.
Old school posts like yours are why I read this blog's comments.
Downtown Chicago us now our Pottersville...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Tired of the nonsense the msm are shitting out every day? Check out X22 Report.com. Podcast posted up twice a day. About 45 minutes each. Stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Share it. Spread it around. Shits gonna hit the proverbial fan soon.
Hey thanks for information about X22, they get right to it and excellent reporting. I also recommend other SCC bloggers to check it out. Once good thing about this MSM censorship is the creation of a whole host of news outlets online. Nobody believes anything from MSM anymore and given the COVID lockdown it has given people the time to find these sources. They are going to devour themselves if Biden is elected and the alt-left will destroy everyone who doesn't agree with them. Eventually they will go so far left they will eventually fall off the cliff.
If the DNC allows China to rule over us, nobody is safe. The Chinese don't care how much money your have or how important you are, once you get out-of-line, you disappear, plain and simple. They have done this to many high ranking officials and by eliminating dissent it keeps everyone in line. Nobody is untouchable.
NY state lawmakers plan to raise taxes on residents earning $1m that could be BACKDATED to plug $8.7bn shortfall amid fears it will fuel exodus of the rich to Miami and Austin
* If just 5% of people earning $100,000 or more leave, Albany will lose $933M
A lot of people in this bracket can just snap their laptop shut and they're gone...RETROACTIVE taxation will ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9060935/NY-state-lawmakers-plan-raise-taxes-residents-earning-1m-plug-8-7bn-shortfall.html
Anonymous said...
Talked to some of the coppers who have been working downtown and they said it's like a ghost town. No foot or vehicular traffic and very few shoppers. It's hard to fathom how much revenue has been lost since the kung fu flu hit the area.
12/16/2020 01:14:00 PM
Wrong, we’re down there every day. People are coming back and it’s probably due to the detail. Many have said they love that we’re there. It’s working but it should never have come to this. Lightfoot has no choice. If she takes away the detail the businesses and residents will be furious. And if looting happens again Lightfoot will be finished.
Anonymous said...
I read the comments blaming Groot for the downfall and I think to myself, this started long before Groot was even in the picture. Richie Daley became woke with his doctor girlfriend and started backing off and then Obama's Chief of Staff, good ole 9 1/2 stepped in and started the destruction. Groot is just too stupid to see it so she/he took the job thinking she/he was king shit.
Chicago is gone and Rahm is the major cause. And guess what folks, Rahm will be going back to D.C. to help the Harris Administration(Biden is brain dead) do the same thing nationwide.
Start learning to live off the land in the middle of no where. It is the only place where you might live freely in the coming years. The American Dream is DOA!
12/16/2020 09:10:00 AM
Ummm...wrong. Nothing ever occurred like what happened multiple times downtown since Lightfoot took over. Nothing of this magnitude. Her over reaching lockdown is crippling also and totally unnecessary. What happened to downtown is unprecedented. Just ask the residents and businesses what they think.
Anonymous said...
As a citizen I’m shocked what Lightfoot has done to this great city in less than 2 years. It’s absolutely astonishing! Downtown is vital to the state of Illinois. You think Pritzker would care? He probably doesn’t care about the state but he does have a home downtown. If she has any hope for re-election she better keep all the police downtown on the corners permanently. It makes us feel safer. If the businesses get looted and the innocent are attacked again, she’s toast. He grand idea of not hiring is also probably going to do her in. Who would want the job anyway with her as the mayor and forced residency?
12/16/2020 12:33:00 AM
Seeing Kim Foxxx getting reelected, LL is going to stick around as long as she wants!
12/16/2020 07:11:00 AM
Totally different election than states attorney. Mayor is 15 terrible democrats all running against each other for top two. I’ve never seen a mayor hated so much in my 40 years of living here. Downtown probably hates her the most. She’s one more looting away from being last out of 15 candidates. Her hating the police is pissing off a lot of voters also.
Groot must be sitting on a stack of COVID money and here is some more wasted money.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/chicago-schools-hiring-people-to-supervise-kids-in-class-while-teachers-work-remotely/
The entire state is going under, and Pritzker and the Democrats are telling the same old lies.
Pritzker's 711 million in spending cuts are a sideshow
See article at Zerohedge.com
"Chumps!"
- Joe Biden
Officers -- What does it take for a car accident to turn into a raging inferno like the one with Governor Brian Kemp's daughters' boyfriend, Harrison Deal? Probably need to be going pretty fast I would imagine, correct? How about all 3 cars to be on fire?
Have you ever experienced this kind of situation?
Check out Salty Cracker on BitChute because he was banned from Youtube by asking the same question? he didn't propose a conspiracy or anything he was just asking what is
the statistical probability of it happening.
Salty Cracker (banned from Youtube)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9PwtORbEcpPi/
Anonymous said...
Tired of the nonsense the msm are shitting out every day? Check out X22 Report.com. Podcast posted up twice a day. About 45 minutes each. Stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Share it. Spread it around. Shits gonna hit the proverbial fan soon.
12/16/2020 03:11:00 PM
My fav is weekend warrior on bitchute. The conservatives must never be silenced
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Tired of the nonsense the msm are shitting out every day? Check out X22 Report.com. Podcast posted up twice a day. About 45 minutes each. Stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Share it. Spread it around. Shits gonna hit the proverbial fan soon.
12/16/2020 03:11:00 PM
My fav is weekend warrior on bitchute. The conservatives must never be silenced
12/16/2020 08:21:00 PM
Colin Flaherty on Bitchute
What should be alarming to all Americans is the plain murder of Americans by Democrats or Deep State China whatever. This isn't a Seth Rich type hit, this is just a 21 year old kid who the Deep State either wanted to destroy or send a message in Georgia. Nobody say a damn word, everyone, keep your mouth shut or you're next. Now the police officer doing the investigation kills himself. MSM won't touch it just like Hunter Biden. They must be feeling desperate or something because anyone can tell this was no car accident.
https://thedonald.win/p/11R4ghYn2O/lin-wood--are-you-growing-increa/c/
34 storefronts gone now. Another 34 will go after the Xmas shopping season.
the Mag Mile will look just as good with nail salons, used hubcap shops and storefront churches.
12/16/2020 08:52:00 AM
A new Mag mile like that could be a viable alternative if they decided to use old Maxwell street as a model. Cardboard shoes that melted first time you wore them in the rain, fake watches that ran backwards, tourists and residents all loved Maxwell. Anything's better than a ghost town board up.
12/16/2020 04:22:00 PM
Yes, you are right – I remember the Loop in the late 70's ... when people called the the State St. subway the soul train, the State Street mall was pathetic, rats in the UA theater, kung fu at the Oriental, porno everywhere else, bums sleeping in the Greyhound station, flophouses on Van Buren, Clark, and Wells, the peep shows behind the Hilton, and to the south, a multitude of pimps based at the Lexington, on and on. Is that what we're headed back to?
Portland businesses that remain are getting annihilated by new insurance premiums.
Most insurers won't even quote, those that do are quadrupling rates with very high deductibles and ZERO coverage for riots and looting.
Same will hit Chicago. Permanent closures are gonna go much higher.
Taxes will go up even higher to compensate.
It will be economically unfeasible to run a business in town.
Chicago will become Detroit times Baltimore with a dash of Gary and a spritz of East St. Louis served over a pile of Memphis with a side of Camden.
Anonymous said...
12/16/2020 04:22:00 PM
Yes, you are right – I remember the Loop in the late 70's ... when people called the the State St. subway the soul train, the State Street mall was pathetic, rats in the UA theater, kung fu at the Oriental, porno everywhere else, bums sleeping in the Greyhound station, flophouses on Van Buren, Clark, and Wells, the peep shows behind the Hilton, and to the south, a multitude of pimps based at the Lexington, on and on. Is that what we're headed back to?
12/17/2020 03:47:00 PM
Yes, that's what we're headed back too IF we're lucky. Think about it.
Anonymous said...
Chicago used to be a great town. I remember many years ago my mother and me went downtown to Christmas shop. We had lunch at the Carousal in the Sky, a revolving restaurant, at the Morrison Hotel. Cocktails were at the Top of the Rock in the Prudential building and dinner was at Don Roth's Blackhawk.
This was in the early 60's and I was new on the job. I don't even remember if I was armed, but at that time we felt safe. I'm glad I was able to have these kind of experiences, however they're gone today in Chicago and most, if not all, large cities never to return until maybe, just maybe, lawmakers and the courts do their jobs and start protecting the populace again.
12/16/2020 08:36:00 AM
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Sure, the downtown was alright, but more than that I remember my grandparents 2 flat, where my mom grew up,in the 4700 block of W Monroe, just east of Cicero.
There was a restaurant that was made up of a DC-4 fuselage with faux wings, pointed directly down Monroe St. I was very young, about 2 when the restaurant opened, and would go down to visit them all the time from our home in Arl Hts. I was always enthralled by the sight of that plane, poised as if getting ready to start its takeoff roll down Monroe.
My grandparents were among the last holdouts of people who were fleeing West Garfield Park, so I was still going down there up until about 1967. It's where my grandfather took the time to educate me in the ways of city life, and it had a lasting impact. Wouldn't even think about taking a drive past their old home now, which is a shame. As for the restaurant, it didn't last much longer. Poor owner probably had no idea when he opened it just a few short years earlier that the neighborhood would turn to shit so fast.
Whenever I hear the Chicago song "Take Me Back To Chicago" I instantly think of that old 2 flat and airplane restaurant. That neighborhood of memory is gone forever.
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