Another Great Idea from Springfield
You know those homeless encampments in the parks, under the bridges, up and down the lakefront? Be prepared for even more of them:
A growing group of Illinois legislators is sponsoring legislation that would prohibit local governments from enforcing fines or criminal penalties when “people experiencing unsheltered homelessness” occupy or engage in “life-sustaining activities” on public property.
Among the “life-sustaining activities” that would be protected are “moving, resting, sitting, standing, lying down, sleeping, protecting oneself from the elements, eating, drinking, and storing such personal property as needed to shelter oneself.”
So far, 23 state representatives, including Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of House Bill 1429, also known as the Homeless Bill of Rights.
Tent cities and group camps have caused problems in neighborhoods across Chicago, from West Loop encampments that sparked shootings and drug dealing to the two-year occupancy of Gompers Park.
What we really need is for these "tent cities" and encampments to be built on property owned by politicians or trusts controlled by politicians so they can enjoy the crap they're saddling everyone else with. Kids can't play in public parks any more because of these homeless assholes blocking access to play lots, ball fields, leaving all sorts of needles, trash and bodily waste all over the place. Where do the politicians think they are - San Francisco?
Labels: dumb ideas, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
38 Comments:
Where do the politicians think they are - San Francisco?
Forget Detroit, San Francisco is the new low.
Let's go real third world....a shanty town on the lake front !
The city owns thousands of vacant lots why can't they designate some of those for them.
I think every person that signs this bill should have a tent city on their block. They can enjoy the smells of human waste and the sounds of sirens at all hours of day and night for fentanyl overdoses. They can gingerly walk down the street and dodge human waste, used syringes and used condoms.
Surely this is a Babalyon Bee headline...right?
RIGHT???
Plenty of open land on the golf course surrounding Osama's library.
And SEIU card carrying government contracted NGO social workers can visit these camps and register them to vote assisting them with last minute to tip the election absentee ballots
don't forget 'the nasty' - that;s the definition of life sustaining
Wnat a group of moron's we have!
Illinois is far more liberal than California. It just might be the most liberal state in America.
FYI...as someone who knows Springfield, if speaker Welch is on board it's a done deal
I’m ok with this but lets start at there doorstop of public sidewalk where they live .
Set up a camp on Lori Lightfoot block
Remember Jane Byrne when she slept for 30 days I think a Cabrini green well let’s have the moron mayor Brandon Johnson with his family go to Gompers without Security and just the 10th and enough to live on every day for 30 days. See what he thinks.
could it be that they are setting up a new avenue to be taxed? If so I'm
certain the new tax will be to shore up the pension fund
Well you can't question the dedication of Illinois politicians to the destruction of civil society. Fully backed up by the worst people in the world...AWFLs who will never deal with the consequences of these policies from their Pickle Ball clubs in Winnetka. Let them eat cake....
Thank God this is my last year in this shithole state.
PickupTruck Gomer Says:
Ihh dont care none, Ih’l jus sleep in the bed of mah pickup trukk…
Just move to Evergreen Park and Oak Lawn if you want to listen to sirens all day and night long…
Our politicians live in a bubble.
We can find hundreds of millions of dollars to house foreign nationals who entered the country illegally, but can't find a dime for Americans living on the street because they are crippled by untreated drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness? MORE Americans dying in tents solves nothing. Temporary housing AND TREATMENT would get people out of the parks faster. And if they refuse to go, then file commitment papers against them as dangers to themselves who require involuntary confinement.
Remember that Welch was hand-picked by Madigan to be Illinois' house speaker
San Francisco has a low income plan for speeding violators. A discount if you are "poor." I'm surprised that Mayor BJ has not implemented a policy like that.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/us-news/new-san-francisco-program-backed-by-newsom-will-issue-speeding-tickets-based-on-income/
put a tent on the parkway in front of the Mayor's house, as well as all the politicians that support this.
now you're talking. sounds like a great place for ICE to build a temporary detention center for Violent Illegals to stay until deported.
I'll help them move in at the state capitol or the gubbenor's mansion.
Because that would probably make the city liable for any crime, injury or death that occurs on them. They can claim humanitarian sympathy when people set up shop on their own accord.
Always follow the money of the sponsors of these bills. Rep Kelly Cassidy who sponsored the legal weed bill - well her otherwise unqualified activist wife Candace Gingrich took a job as an executive with a weed grower. I’m sure some would have these sponsors have family getting paid somehow for the homeless outreach. By the way, the whole 211 thing is a joke (the number you are directed to call for the I houses). I’ve called it. Guess what happens? They direct you to call the police on whatever homeless situation you are trying to resolve.
Tents on Michigan avenue
“Make no small plans.”
mmmmm ok. If the City's not going to hold the piss bums responsible, then the vigilantes probably will...
And I bet that no one but the vigilantes will be satisfied with *that* outcome.
Get another 50# sack of popcorn - this is gonna be EPIC when some building owner is D*O*N*E with the bullshit.
Better tell Ohare Police and CTA mass transit that they can’t play stop everything that comes in because bye bye pensions.. because we are selectively ID them as homeless or non ticketed ..
The problem is the MFn ACLU. They are to blame for this mess. They fight on behalf of people living how they want to live, even if it degrades your quality of life. Democrats have bitched for decades falsely blaming the entire dismantling of mental hospitals on Reagan. They fight entire idea of it was to throw that to the states. Illinois - Chicago specifically. Rahm closed over a dozen mental health offices across the city. This city & state largely run by democrats for decades has done little to solve the problem. If anything, they’ve outsourced that task and how much of that is subject to any oversight?
“Make no small tents” - now excuse me as I shit on this sidewalk.
There are probably plenty of newbies on the job that support this foolishness. I have been encountering quite a few left wing liberals on the job lately, more than the usual. I have no problem stating "being a left wing liberal is contradictory to your job". However, as most liberals are stupid, they cannot comprehend. The newest members cry and complain the loudest, but will vote in the same assholes that they are crying and complaining about. That is basically the the definition of insanity. I support the belief that liberalism is a mental disorder.
I generally just wore my dress shoe totes in the snow .. I guess now I’ll wear them all year round in case I step on human sidewalk shit. Thanks Democrats.
I just hope our next progressive Mayor hires a public works “sidewalk human shit brigade” with large shovels to scoop up the shit.
No way chummer. You must not have spent any considerable time in Cali. That state is a truckstop-bathroom hot mess. LA's skid-row and the San Fran sanitation lot encampments make Chicago look like a republican paradise. We here in Hellinois are still only at a piss-bum level...they are on deuce-and-a-half dump-on-your-doorstep level. And don't get me started on Cali's insane tollway fees, traffic tickets and water taxes. There's a reason people are fleeing a state with such beautiful weather.
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