Arena Lied?

Well, he's a democrat for one. With "progressive" communist leanings for another. And he was an aldercreature for a time until he pissed off even the liberals on the northwest side.

That's a trifecta of a lying piece-of-$hit right there.

Back in the day (a few years ago) Arena was advocating changing the Jefferson Park neighborhood from a predominantly working-class ethnic enclave into something more resembling a place that middle-class people would want to move out of. He held community meetings advocating the building of a giant apartment complex reminiscent of the project buildings that Shortshanks had just spent years emptying and tearing down.

This structure was to be built across the street from 016, but not to worry! Arena promised everyone in meetings, in hearings, in newsletters and on social media that residents would be CAREFULLY SCREENED to keep out the riffraff. In fact, a largish number of apartments would be set aside specifically for hard-up veterans, and you wouldn't want to be against veterans, would you?

Someone want to explain this?

 That's three offenders with violent tendencies all housed in the same apartment at the aforementioned 5150 building. Any guesses as to what type of screening they might have gone through? And what are the chances that they'll be evicted from this new-and-improved project building they are operating out of? 

No doubt they'll be committing more crimes and making working citizens' lives miserable for the foreseeable future. One can only hope they work their way over to where Arena lives and makes sure he experiences some of "careful screening" he promised residents of the northwest side.

And no doubt he'll be having a minion or two (like Leslie Perkins) file CR complaints against the blog the way he did in the past and against coppers who dared to call out his bullshit at the community meetings.