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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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At least these hotels are located in Leftist enclaves . Those people should get to enjoy the diversity that their demented leader has delivered to our nation.
Diversity is their strength. Importing thousands of unskilled, uneducated illegal immigrants OBVIOUSLY improves a neighborhood, DUH! Diversity brings strength. It’s the educated native English speaking deplorables that wreck neighborhoods with their BBQ’s, football parties, manicured lawns and well behaved children and skilled labor. OF COURSE
Hmm, could they find some spare cash for a place for me (am actual taxpaying US citizen) in Tahoe?
The homeless living at the Margarita Inn shelter in Evanston get private room and bath, three catered meals daily, maid and laundry service, big – screen teevee with premium cable, and absolute free reign to drink and drug to their heart’s content – easy livin’, Old Joe…!!!
Finally, a bit of common sense out in Frisco… threaten to take your business elsewhere, though I doubt that might work here. Some excerpts from this article here: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says San Francisco cleaned up its troubled downtown after he pressured City Hall https://fortune.com/2023/09/14/salesforce-marc-benioff-san-francisco-clean-up/ “Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said he pushed San Francisco officials to clean up the city before his company’s annual conference began in its hometown this week and is happy with the results. “We put a lot of pressure on the city this year,” Benioff said Wednesday during a press event. “It… Read more »
Watch Michael Shellenberger’s video on YouTube about Progressives inability to solve the problems of homelessness; it’s an eye opener. San Francisco spends 10x the amount of ANY city in the country, he explains how it’s on big grift where everyone is protecting their fiefdom, it’s sickening to watch, it’s all Liberals.
Exactly! There is a now a “Homeless – Industrial Complex” that sucks up BILLIONS to “solve” homelessness, yet the problem is only exploding – just look at Portland, Frisco, Seattle… Closer to home we see it especially in Evanston, where the corpulent and corrupt homeless “non – profit” Connections for the Homeless is aided and abetted in their “work” by a woke city government and clueless Evanston libtard voters/supporters. In four years, Connections for the Homeless went from a $3.5 million outfit to a $15 million dollar outfit – yet they continually cry “But the homeless problem is increasing!” I… Read more »
Its not shocking its Evanston the taxpayers who were never slave owners paid reparations to people that were never slaves. Stop complaining Chicago always votes for Dems you know who they are what they are and how they put Americans last. You get what you vote for so own it.
And when these private properties convert to county-owned properties, they will become exempt from property taxes, removing $150-200K of much needed revenue from those cities’ tax rolls.
Nothing too good for our welcomed immigrants by the various sanctuary governmental units of Illinois
and I should add Evanston, what a perfect place.
I bet we could bus them all back for about a $1.5 million.
Best comment!!!!
Heard a similar statement made on
conservative talk radio this afternoon —
but they were talking abt flying them to
Ukraine. 🙂
A place no lib Chicago or CC pol wants to go—Just like in the city, which has tons of available space/ facilities in empty or barely uses CPS schools and empty commercial space in predominantly Black (dis-invested) communities that could be used for at minimal expense for ‘new arrival’ migrants, CC as-well has mountains of empty realesate in predominantly Black south suburbs that could be used for ‘new arrival’ migrants as-well. But instead wants to buy hotels in tony Evanston & Oak Park???????
In Evanston Connections for the Homeless, which now runs the former Margarita Inn as a shelter, explains that a shelter adjacent to downtown is all about “equity” and “anti – racism”. Of course, out of the 60 shelter residents, less than ten are from Evanston, the rest being “bussed in” to inflate Connection’s numbers and thus gobble up more million in funding. Another “fun fact” – Connections CEO Betty Bogg (who is white) lives in Portage Park, and the other two top Connections staffers (also white) live in Skokie, lol… Excerpts from an article: https://evanstonnow.com/connections-rejects-alternate-shelter-site/ Connections rejects alternate shelter site… Read more »
in my city NW side neighborhood are alderman’s just opening facilities? You have no say in the matter? No public meetings announced? Nothing on aldermans web site?…you just hear about whats going on thru neighborhood FB page or spotty stories in news
Yup, in Evanston we had NO say in the matter, the concerns of the immediate neighbors to this Evanston shelter were ignored (even though “meetings” were held), and of course we were totally gaslighted by Evanston’s socialist mayor, city council members, “religious” groups, and Connections for the Homeless, who directed the whole shameful shee – bang. A number of us spoke out vociferously against the shelter at city council and zoning meetings, to no avail. And the same was done in Rogers Park, because alderman Maria Hadden is a socialist, intent on destroying all that she touches: https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/02/24/rogers-park-homeless-shelter-proposal-gets-city-approval-allowing-for-planned-summer-opening/ Rogers Park… Read more »
These people are sick
Methinks they’re looking anywhere
and everywhere to grift — with our
taxpayer dollars. They don’t know FRUGAL or
“making do”.
It’s all about the $$$$
Oops, I realize this articles about US homeless and not migrants,
but overall many of the same issues apply….to many articles to read
Yup, very similar. In both cases, it’s “no accountability” and “Give us MORE MONEY!!!”… and the problems only increase exponentially. In both cases, bad behavior – from the top on down – is being rewarded…
I guess the ultimate hypocrisy is—why is Chicago & I assume Evanston providing SEPARATE shelter for US homeless and “new arrival” migrants?
Aren’t most “migrants” homeless?
Here’s a Letter to the Editor I wrote, opposing the Margarita Inn in Evanston. Of course, the libtards that live here pay no heed to facts; I also formerly worked for Connections for the Homeless, so I know what I’m talking about: Letter to the editor: Supporting Margarita Inn is a mistake By Gregory Morrow – September 29th, 2022 “Because of the Connections for the Homeless “hands off” approach towards substance abuse, I oppose their purchase of the Margarita Inn as a permanent shelter. Shelter guests who are “using” are a danger to themselves, their fellow guests, CFTH staff and… Read more »
Nice job on the letter! And you’re right. These
people never let facts get in the way of anything
they do.
Such a Homeless – Industrial Complex grift! The Margarita Inn in Evanston is *not* valued at “$7 million”, but about a third of that…
That’s the “Illinois way” of buying property.
Next up: reparations for the immigrants.
You got that right. And I wouldn’t
doubt they will seek that.
Of course, and Tony Preckwinkle supports this. Here she is for a photo op with socialist mayor Biss in front of the shelter in Evanston. Article: https://evanstonnow.com/mayor-evanston-must-be-a-yes-in-my-backyard-city/ Mayor: Evanston must be a ‘yes in my backyard’ city by Jeff Hirsh May 18, 2023 “With City Council’s vote scheduled for Monday, several elected officials along with social services advocates rallied in front of the Margarita Inn on Thursday, in support of the plan to make the former hotel a permanent shelter for the homeless. The Margarita has been a shelter since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, but… Read more »
“Karl Bradley, deputy director of housing at Cook County, said there are hotels that are used as shelters in the south suburbs. That was news to Moore.
“Over three years ….we don’t even know who the referring agencies are or who the hotels are that are doing this in our districts,” Moore said.
“Commissioner, you’ve highlighted our need to expand our marketing,” Bradley responded.”
Hmmm. The solution to Black homelessness in Cook County is to lie better about what’s not working.
Well now, there’s a dose of dynamic new-n-transparent leadership for you.
Problem solved, what’s up next?
Cook County wants to spend about $14 million to buy two suburban hotels to use as homeless shelters — WITHOUT FIXING THE DRUG AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES THAT CAUSE HOMELESSNESS
I’m a close neighbor of the Margarita Inn in Evanston (living within 500 feet), and our neighborhood group fought like HELL to knock some sense into our witless alderman, who is kowtowing to Connection for the Homeless’ shady doings with this ghastly shelter, here is one of many articles: https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/07/06/halim-lawsuit-margarita-inn-shelter/ Lawsuit: Margarita Inn shelter ‘incompatible’ with neighborhood July 6th, 2023 “The owner of two properties neighboring the Margarita Inn, 1566 Oak Ave., is suing the City of Evanston for approving a permanent homeless shelter at the former boutique hotel. Cameel Halim filed the suit in Cook County Court on June… Read more »
Evanston and Oak Park make perfect sense. Havens for the lefty liberal progressive nutjobs.
Absolutely perfect.
Yup, then the idiots wonder why Evanston’s downtown is dying. They don’t seem to realize that spending millions of dollars on homeless shelters/services adjacent to downtown is attracting crime and vagrants, thus driving people away. The leftists running the place of course have no economic smarts, and they merrily drive businesses and customers away with their penny – ante anti – business socialist rules…
I love the Oak Park, and Evanston location selections. No one can object to the placement of the migrant housing without being ostracized from polite society in these communities. In the long run, however, the powers that be will leverage the compliance for Oak Park and Evanston to silent other communities. These are just small bullets that the leftists need to take to move the ball forward. Some eggs need to be broken……..
Excellent.
Excellent! It’s about time in this country that liberals start having to live with their voting. I LOVE IT!!
The only issue will be when they start creeping into all of our communities. The messaging from all of the people should be “send them back” – not put them in certain communities – it will affect all of us sooner or later. We are already seeing an increase in Crime in suburbs all around us.
“it will affect all of us sooner or later.” That’s the point. The smartest thing these governors did was to start shipping migrants to all the liberal sanctuary cities. Now those liberal cities will start to ship them out to the suburbs. Eventually it will reach a breaking point where people change their voting habits or they will learn to live with it because they hate the alternative even worse. Even people that love the idea of letting in asylum seekers don’t ever offer up their own home for these people to stay. It’s no different than all the spending… Read more »
As long as you or your family are not on the receiving end of violence or your business is not being destroyed – right?