Water Bill for What?
We guess this is one way for Conehead to balance the budget:
A senior citizen's vacant home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood racked up a staggering $233,000 water bill, despite not having any plumbing for years.
Diane Carli, 82, said the city of Chicago is threatening to garnish her pension, and she's looking for help because the Water Department isn't backing down on an outrageous bill she says is clearly an error.
You don't need 20/20 vision to see this house in the Back of Yards neighborhood is abandoned.
The City contacted her and told her she needed a new water meter installed, even with no plumbing in the house, and then proceeded to bill her for half-a-million gallons of water that they claim the meter tracked over six months.
After repeated complaints, the City replaced the meter with a new one, which then registered ZERO gallons of water used.
But the bill still stands.
Labels: un-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
89 Comments:
City is useless.
Johnson should know something about water bills
OT: This is interesting
https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/cincinnati-police-chief-under-scrutiny-for-mass-brawl-was-accused-by-cops-of-anti-white-discrimination-using-race-based-quota-system-suit/
Fuck you...Pay me...
I can’t wait to move. Stories like this let’s everyone know they are getting ripped off.
They want the house.
The city of chicago is a bully. Since the house has been sitting abandoned they probably could have approached her with some other offer but they don't want to deal with honest people. Not that I know this person, there just seems to be a massive land grab going on in this city. Even in bad areas of the city the only people who can afford to buy land are the developers. I'm just a civilian but this has been my observation, no inside knowledge.
So where does she live now of not there?
She inherited it in 2017? And no one has lived there since? Why is she keeping a run- down, vacant property for 8 years?
What do the neighbors think?
Is it boarded up?
Sell the place already. What is she waiting for?
Tell her not to worry as BLM Brandon Johnson didn't pay his bill for years and he became Mayor. And they didn't turn off his water. It's called the luck of the scumbags.
Have the property owner call mayor bj and find out how he gets away with not paying his bills .
A perfect example of the stupidity of City Departments. Ignorant and arrogant.
How does someone abandon a house in the middle of a huge housing shortage? Are buyers afraid of the neighbors, terrible schools, I thought Chicago was an utopia....
It’s da Chicawga way.
Lawyer up.
Sue the shitbag city.
I still don't understand why people live there when they dont have to.
I retired and left that shithole immediately.
Should’ve unloaded that dump ASAP. Why hang on to property like that? Nothing positive will come from owning a gutted house in the hood. This isn’t the ‘90s when Shitcago ghetto real estate turned to gold.
2 sides to this story and the owner like mom told many “2 sides to every story truth in middle, and if you don’t have anything good to say don’t say anything!”
you mean unlike the mayor, the ctu president and rev-run sharpdumb she has to pay her bills?
Name sounds very familiar. She’s not just any “senior citizen”, wasn't she E. B.’s forever Precinct Capt.?
Funny coming from an asshole who couldnt even pay HIS water Bill!!
I hope they are also garnishing the pensions of those who got phony PPP loans to recover the money.
Historically Chicago was formally known as Second City. Now it's known as "Broken City". A richly deserved title that goes hand and glove with city corruption, lies, deceit, clout and mismanagement. All under the willfully blind eyes and deaf ears of the lying media and their elitist editorial boards.
Second City = Broken City.
Correct. I smell a political scam going on...city may have some grounds
City wants the property and they can have it.
Same thing many think, she was Ed Burkes best precinct captain family benefited greatly with city jobs like herself and promotions in numerous departments! I would guess she was using it as a tax write off always some nonsense in the game!
Yes she was!! Family and friends program still at the trough! She knew exactly what she was doing, not the innocent grandma she’s playing!!
Ooops... Did I do that...? ? ?
Sounds like another lawsuit this stupid city going to lose because this city is run by a bunch of no common sense morons starting with the occupant of 5th floor of City hall Mayor Office!
Wait a minute. This goes higher all the way to Congress. Did former Congressman Bobby, Black Panther, Rush ever pay his water bill and office rent due when he was in Congress? I think the owner of those properties deserve “reparations” now he is a “reverend” with tax free income and taxes.
I know of instance of 10K water bill the city was fighting over with the owner of a house that he was rehabbing and has been vacant for years. He was fighting it but unfortunately passed away in the interim. I'm sure the city will go after the estate.
Once again and I promise for the last time. Enjoy your life and retirement. There are myriad reasons some of us remain here - health, grandkids, maybe even a stubborn nature that doesn't allow " cut and run " . Please stop insinuating that we are some type of mentally deficient because we are here and that those who fled need to feel sorry for us.
City should buy the house so the marginalized kids could play cops and…. I mean, robbers and robbers.
Pay Yourself, Stroke
So what’s the other side ?
Lightfoot said the city would not go after people for water bills. Water should be free.
The city is billing her for all the open hydrants this summer. Shitheads open the hydrants and let them run 24hr, 7days a week.
Ask the lard-ass governor about removing toilets. The thought "the mob" was gone, or that's what they say. Seems the non-water-bill paying mayor is the new mob. Certainly, a land grab. You gotta F with people their entire life?
I think you may be right. If so she used E.B. to get her daughters cushy assignments in CPD. One used to bring her daughter with her and another got a merit Sgt position.
If the property taxes are being paid, any active utilities, aka electricity, natural gas, municiple water, etc., are being paid, then the occupancy or vacancy of any type of property is irrelevant.
Thus, the property, merely by being unoccupied, is not abandoned.
There is also a term, vacant and secured, that, if a property of any usage type is maintained in such a manner as to meet the standards of being 'vacant and secured', and the above billings are being paid, then those coveting said property must, if honest and honorable, seek to buy via honest and honorable means, aka, contact owner(s) and make an offer.
Those who covet, and are not honest, nor honorable, resort to intimidations most foul.
Another interesting point on those lusting to acquire property: as the market value of property as truly vacant, aka, bare land sans any structures, increases, so then does the assessed value, whence the basis of said property's minimum value tax billing is determined.
Thus, property with structures have their base value increased, plus the assessed value of said structures = more tax for county.
The property owner(s) in discussion here chose to agree to having a water meter installed, presuming the honesty and integrity of 'others' to result in a minimal billing. Were the property owner(s) to have not agreed to a water metering, they would be billed/dunned a noticiblely higher amount, yet nothing as higher as they have been.
Remember to not forget that governments are just people, and we know what stinkers people can choose to be.
Fuck off, asshole.
Mind your own business.
Or are you one of those owning nothing and being happy nitwits?
Not stupidity.
Raw greedy hubris.
Mind
Your own
Business.
So, define 'good to say'.
Trust me, this place is not abandoned. It is occupied by the people she rents to - illegal immigrants. This lady is scamming and renting it out for cash - then crying poor. Boo Fuckin' Hoo. Hey lady, don't want to pay your bills? Sell the place. Problem solved.
How many water bills are not being payed by democratic politicians?
any bets there are about 50 registered democRATS there that vote
5025 S. Artesian
Doesn’t look like a pig pen
This would be a pretty scarce blog if “moms” two-story theory was used
Most people tear down the house to reduce the evil taxes and bills. That's why so many vacant lots exist. The shitty is shameful.
OT: todays news of an off-duty involved in a shoot out with several armed dudes concluded the story with: it's not clear who fired first! Does it really fucking matter who fired first? The news media needs to get a grip on reality.
I don't have a meter. $115 a month. I run my shit all day and night. Fuck them.
bonehead bonehead bonehead is fkn around with the hispanic people
No toilets, or no plumbing? Mansion, or slum? Goose or gander. She's entitled to a pass as well.
.....water bills are ...racist.
Next Question.....
I ani't telling you shit.....Mayor Conehead
Not that he couldn't......he didn't want to,....after all with
Water bills being racist and shit.
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Maybe using it as a tax write off and this will definitely wake the Internal Revenue Service up to take a look at her cause nobody could be that stupid to keep an abandoned home in that area area unless they’re playing some tax games typical Democrat
Not as serious, but I know plenty of people who have tried to fight a parking ticket...The system is biased for the city to get their money. Always has been. I regret writing quite a few parking violations as a younger officer. Any large bill like that, I would immediately hire an attorney.
there are 2 female cpd with the lat name of carli both in clout heavy units big wack with eddir burke the jerk but as it is with clout you couldnt have it any other way
I remember years back in 025, there was a house on the 1300 block of Monticello that had a fully functional well on the property. It had been there for decades.
Wonder if its still there?
Are there any human beings in the City's labyrinth that can readily see this is a mistake?
Have you ever inherited a home? Unless her husband had it all tied up in a nice neat package, there could be back & forth with husband’s other relatives & probate court or property liens. Likely, this water bill is definitely preventing it from being sold. I’ve seen one child pay all the bills on a parents property for decades, even before parent died. Then out of the woodwork, come the kids who never lifted a finger with their hands out for their share. It’s not unheard of for other family to fight inherited property and after it’s all said and done, tens of thousands in legal fees- everyone ends up with the same.
Couple fought and won a five year battle against the progressive/socialist St. Louis county prosecutor's office.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/st-louis-mccloskeys-win-back-ar-15-rifle-5-years-after-black-lives-matter-protest-confrontation/
OM!! Thank you, I thought only my Water bill was astronomical in Retaliation for my pending lawsuit 🤨🧐🤔
The water department is full of losers.
No keeses for them!!!!
Do Yo-Yo have friends in the Water Department? 🧐🤔
1 retired was lieutenant in court section now works for park district
Is this the same Carli family from the court section, retire or be fired, don’t do as I do, but I have been scaming for years , you must have posted the story to get sympathy, pay up
Old timer here is this the Carli family which is all on CPD? The same one from Eddie Burke' s former ward and neighbors on W. 50th St.? Ha-ha should be ashamed of yourselves. Leave the property sit become a eyesore and blame everyone else for a water bill.You should be in housing court by now and the city should seize it and knock it down. And you couldn't find any help after all those years asigned to the Hall! Shame on you and yours take care of your business and demo it.
Do you:
Offer your neighbors the opportunity to fill their above ground pools?
To water their lawns and gardens during dry spells?
To wash their vehicles?
SSSSSSShushhh Clock is running and Statute of Limitation makes it tax free money for me. It is almost 5 years since Covid.
Water Power (1976) Good movie.
I installed a bypass valve on my meter after the city installed it. I gave them a few days each billing cycle so as to not draw too much attention. After that? Cranked the handle on the hidden petcock 90 degrees and voila. Fuck that city. I hit them for all that I could when I was there. Also made counterfeit city stickers for many years and never had an issue. After that, I registered all my vehicles to our summer place in another state. I always got over on the job and the city. The old-timers taught me very well. You just have to use your imagination and keep your mouth shut. Something 95% of the people on the job know nothing about.
PS - retirement is the cats ass.
Citizens have been fleeced for so long already. Everyone’s sick of bogus parking violations by the meter maids. Instead of wasting time contenting the tickets, some folks will just destroy city property to get even. Guessing when the game is truly rigged what recourse does the average nobody citizen really have.
It’s not always easy. I am in process of looking to find my next and hopefully final “home.” I don’t have a big family, so some of it’s dependent on staying in their orbit. I don’t just want to pick up and move to a place I feel like a stranger and have no connection. I grew up here. I’m 4th generation Chicagoan. My family drove horse and buggy delivery trucks, built actual homes where there were none, were cops long before a union existed,, steel mill and factory workers, fought in several wars & came home, watched expressways being built in their backyards and worked downtown in its heyday. I feel like an anomaly some days, a stranger in my own hometown, a lifetime Chicagoan who doesn’t feel like this is the same Chicago (not in a good way). I’ve been here so long I see the “Chicago” dialect dying out- neighborhoods losing their distinct characteristics. Sometimes, I’ll recall a place and the person I’m talking to has no clue what I’m talking about because it’s long gone. I feel more “Chicago” than neighbors I see move in and know will move out in a few years. Sometimes you’re a place and that place is you and it’s a struggle to sever the connection.
The “Fuck You, Pay Me” is as tiresome as the “Midnight Basketball would solve this.”
What about his "church"? I am asking for a friend...
Enough with the midnight basketball. Stay up with the times. It's now midnight pickleball!
The "Boss" from court section that Carli? The girl who never worked a full day, now at park district doing the same! Now ma has a problem still scamming?
Definitely a "heavy" family:https://ballotpedia.org/Dena_Carli
We had a Carli in a unit I was assigned to a while back. No one knew exactly what she really did. No one seemd to be able to figure out what her job responsibilities were. Carli did hover around the unit commander keeping busy with all things BS. She kept to herself and didnt socialize very much. It was kind of weird...
Sale the house if you’re not going to live in it. Excessive water bills are often times. consistent with a broken toilet that constantly runs, dripping facets. squatters utilizing utilities,
Cool Hand Luke.
A plumber's pipe cutting tool.
A warm summer's night.
Humming a tune of melodic delight.
Any place, anywhere, can sink a well pipe, discretely, as far down as it takes to be well past the layers of earth, clay, etc., to glean potable water source.
An in-well pump, particulate filters and such, and all you require is a reliable source of electricity.
The shaft being only 4-6 inches in diameter, lined by lowering pvc pipe, it's basically an easy task to accomplish.
With the city providing sewer services, no septic field needed.
Why is this property on the tax exempt roll? Yet for years none the less. When my family member died we paid taxes on the inherited property till it was sold. Enquiring minds want to know.
Did I miss something? When meters were installed they said that you couldn't be charged more than non metered houses. So that's what 2k a year give or take. Did they change the rules after to fuck every one?
Agreed. Find some new material to share
Everyone involved is scamming the system. City is correct on this one. People are living in the residence
I believe you did, miss something.
The reverse is their claim, that the non metered accounts would be charged at the surrounding metered accounts average usage.
10:37:56………I honestly could care less what happens in a hood rat neighborhood in Shitcago. I don’t even live in Illinois anymore. I merely offered an opinion based on family experience. The longer you hold vacant property in the ghetto, the more likely you are to be stuck with a shit sandwich. Hassles and liabilities increase exponentially every month you keep something like that. Fires, dope fiends dying in your basement, kids getting injured, etc……And if you owned a property like that where I live now, with real people, in a real neighborhood, in AMERICA, you can bet your ass I wouldn’t mind my own business.
The lady said she didnt know the rules? HMM whats that Jelly roll song "Liar?"
https://occprodstoragev1.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/lsmatterattachmentspublic/88d125c0-a1f5-42fd-851b-8d4bf0a6d8e7.pdf
Listen here chica... The minute you say, "mind your own business" is the very second I say you are SUS as fuck and call BS on anything you try to protect.
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