Homeless Encampment Fires

Isn't it great that taxpayers and their children can't use the parks that their taxes pay for?

• Ongoing safety concerns about the homeless encampment at Gompers Park, 4222 W. Foster Ave., could lead to the relocation of youth baseball and softball games planned for the renovated field at the park’s south end, where three tent fires have been reported since Jan. 30.

  The Gompers Park Athletic Association has informed member families that its 2025 games and practices scheduled for “Little Gompers” (the park’s south end) could be relocated due to the encampment. “To be clear, Gompers Park Athletic Association will not be using the field at Little Gompers if the tents are not moved prior to the start of the season and the city does not keep them from returning to our park,” the association wrote in a letter to families. The association explained that if needed games would be relocated, not canceled, due to the proximity of the encampment to the field.

  The baseball field was the recipient of a $150,000 improvement grant, courtesy of the 39th Ward Alderman Samantha Nugent’s participatory budget vote. Many, if not all, of those improvements have been made.

So an extra $150K - in addition to regular property tax levy - and kids can't play ball there. Not to mention the THREE fires in nine days, sucking up untold CFD resources, and then the additional money given away to replace the stuff that burned up, because you can't have homeless people suffer consequences  of their bad decisions. Plus all the homeless fleas, lice and bedbugs.....the mind boggles.

Hey, shouldn't there be a whole bunch of farm jobs opening up? The democrats are asking who's going to harvest crops without illegal aliens here. Now's the chance for these homeless leeches to get jobs. But they better hurry before those 5,000 former fbi employees beat them to the punch.