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The six-story brick building and its adjoining one-story wood-paneled building look like many other properties in Pilsen’s industrial corridor: rundown, with some windows boarded up and the facade haphazardly painted to cover graffiti. More than 2,300 recently-arrived migrants now call it home. In recent weeks, migrants described outbreaks of various illnesses, including chickenpox, the flu, and upper respiratory infections, spreading without sufficient medical attention. “All my kids had eye infections because the ceiling is shedding fibers,” one resident said.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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These are ad-hoc refugee camps and the beginnings of shanty-towns/favelas. Move these people from these warehouses and they’ll complain about begin shuffled around cattle. The surrounding area will become less desirable and eventually leave. The migrants will expand, illegally, into the surrounding buildings and turn them into their own housing units, complete with illegal electricity, water and internet/satellite. Before long, they’ll be entrenched and refuse to leave. How will building inspectors or the courts evict these people? Will they use police or marshalls to forcibly remove dozens or hundreds of ‘migrants’ from these ad-hoc favelas? Where will they go then?… Read more »
Yup, your are spot – on, debtor, Chicago is fast devolving into “Johannesburg On The Lake”… read and weep! Go here: Life inside the ‘hijacked’ Johannesburg building where scores burned alive https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/life-inside-hijacked-johannesburg-building-where-scores-burned-alive-2023-09-02/ “…The deadly fire highlighted a problem that authorities have long failed to tackle: Johannesburg’s city centre is so abandoned by business and the state that gangs and extortionists have moved in to fill the void… Dozens of abandoned buildings have been “hijacked” or taken over by criminal syndicates who charge fees for staying there. Angela Rivers, general manager at the Johannesburg Property Owners and Managers Association, said she… Read more »
It was a great until the Reuters fake news ‘journalismist’ said: “Decades of white minority rule, under which Black people were forcibly relocated to townships and rural areas, have left South Africa with some of the world’s worst extremes of wealth and poverty, and a critical shortage of housing.” This is just fake news propaganda at this point. The current majority leadership inherited a functioning, wealthy country, and then proceeded to systematically dismantle it into ruins. The wealth disparities actually, according to many studies, show that wealthy blacks outnumber wealthy whites in the upper echelons of wealth. The urban areas… Read more »
They have the nerve to complain?
They had the nerve to invade, why not complain?
They’re untouchable.
When will JB open the doors to the Hyatt hotels? He can charge $1,000 per night per person. The city will pay for it. Just ask Brandon. Gourmet meals plus a mint on the beds every night. Throw in massages and the exercise rooms and soon 40 or 50M of their relatives will be here in a few weeks.
Seriously do these jumpers tell their relatives still in their countries on what it is really like in Chicago? Winter has not set in yet. Wait till it’s below zero and wind chills of -40 and some lake snow.
Hmm, I fear us Chicagoans will relive the Great Depression where many had to live in Hoovervilles.
Pritzkervilles!
Bidenvilles!
Sounds like they should hop on the next bus and take it back home.
“They lamented the harsh shelter conditions, including cramped living quarters, mistreatment from workers, freezing temperatures, and unsanitary bathrooms. “You can’t have anything here… Nothing. No privacy… We are thankful for the roof over our heads because we just got here, but I would like to see things like the food get better,” Maria said…” Hey, Maria – guess what!? These are the normal conditions at most all of the city’s shelters (Pacific Garden, Cornerstone, Franciscan…). You came here voluntarily; no one forced you to Chicago – go *back* where you came from if the local shelters don’t meet your “high… Read more »