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Niwrad posted:If states like Texas and Florida are going to set up human trafficking operations to Chicago, it seems like the Feds should provide the city with funding for it. Hey, we got like $8 million, why are you complaining???? (We asked for $190 million) Willa Rogers posted:In which case I can kind of see the neighborhood folks getting a tad salty about it, given that their children were then forced to travel greater distances to get to school after Rahm's closings, and given the historic tension between minority communities. This is exactly the issue. The south side is seeing their schools closed and given over to migrant families, when what they want is those schools to reopen as actual schools for their kids. This is also bringing out a little hate from black people towards Latinos as well. Someone showed up at a southside community meeting with a Build the Wall sign. I think there's really two things happening. First is black people are tired of disinvested neighborhoods, and second, a flood of migrants means they might see their own neighborhoods taken over by Latinos. If the city wants to open a migrant center up on the northside, fine by me. Problem is that we don't have nearly the amount of available buildings that the south side does.
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Bird in a Blender posted:If the city wants to open a migrant center up on the northside, fine by me. Problem is that we don't have nearly the amount of available buildings that the south side does. There've already been northside shelters, including in Hadden's ward. But they've been small & non-centralized and obviously there aren't currently enough of them that are set up. That (and nimbyism, I'm sure) is why Hadden's calling for a central location like Navy Pier or McCormick Place that is large enough to handle them.
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Hadden's ward had a huge tent city for the unhoused take over a public park (it began during covid) and she somehow successfully got people rehomed before the tent city was dismantled a few weeks ago after growing over the past three years. So I'm inclined to give her proposal a fair read & the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a large migrant center.
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I would be fine with a migrant center somewhere. Hell why don’t they just build one where the steel mills were on the far South side? That land is sitting vacant, it’s far enough away that the nimbys can shut the gently caress up. The development would likely fuel some other development as well.
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Djarum posted:I would be fine with a migrant center somewhere. Hell why don’t they just build one where the steel mills were on the far South side? That land is sitting vacant, it’s far enough away that the nimbys can shut the gently caress up. The development would likely fuel some other development as well. Isn’t all that brownfields and contaminated to gently caress and back?
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There was talk of development a couple of times. I think the issue was more there was a lot that is just too hard and expensive to demo/remove. But if you were going to use it as migrant housing you could use the existing infrastructure that is left to make the housing.
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What exactly stops the city from just bussing them all back to Texas?
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banned from Starbucks posted:What exactly stops the city from just bussing them all back to Texas? Technically nothing. Although using people that are tired, often sick and scared as political hot potato isn’t humane. Also there is a very real risk of something bad happening to these folks if they go back to Texas or Florida. I want to stress that what Desantis and Abbott are doing is inhumane. They are lying and taking advantage of people who do not have any concept of what is going on, are confused and scared. Ultimately coming here will be a much better option than being there but the fact that they are treating people like it is a game frankly sickens me. It is our duty to be better. Yeah it might inconvenience some people but you make sacrifices to help those in need.
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banned from Starbucks posted:What exactly stops the city from just bussing them all back to Texas? Having a inkling of empathy for other human beings.
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Niwrad posted:Having a inkling of empathy for other human beings. Everything's bigger in Texas, especially the space where your heart should be.
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Well holy poo poo, now we’re exporting violent crime.quote:A 21-year-old Naperville woman died and a 22- year-old Bloomington woman was badly hurt after a man pushed them off a slope outside of Neuschwanstein castle in Germany Wednesday, according to NBC 5.
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The murderer wasn't from Illinois, this is another case of Illinoisans becoming victims to other states violence.
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The X-man cometh posted:The murderer wasn't from Illinois, this is another case of Illinoisans becoming victims to other states violence. I don’t know that we know that yet as the perpetrator was only identified as ‘American’ and the name hasn’t been released. Possible they all went to the same school or they vaguely knew the guy some other way.
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Both victims are alumni of my high school, it's been sending shock waves through the alum community. Absolutely awful, and yet another predatory rear end in a top hat committing violence against women.
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CarterUSM posted:Both victims are alumni of my high school, it's been sending shock waves through the alum community. Absolutely awful, and yet another predatory rear end in a top hat committing violence against women. Has a name been released yet? I’m wondering if maybe they knew him peripherally, like he also graduated from UIUC or something.
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This thread needs a name change. It was named when we were pretty sure Pritzker was going to just completely suck, and he has fallen far short of that and has actually been pretty decent.
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I gotta say, Lori's NASCAR event was pretty interesting. Probably because it was all wet and everyone kept spinning out and crashing into a tire wall. I thought, though, it would be like a street race street race where they'd actually drive down, like the loop or something.
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:This thread needs a name change. It was named when we were pretty sure Pritzker was going to just completely suck, and he has fallen far short of that and has actually been pretty decent. Why does Pritzker, the largest governor, not simply eat the other 49?
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Great Plains Khanate Megathread
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Farecoal posted:Great Plains Khanate Megathread Yeah this
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:This thread needs a name change. It was named when we were pretty sure Pritzker was going to just completely suck, and he has fallen far short of that and has actually been pretty decent. God, Chris Kennedy would have sucked so bad.
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Biss would have been too, can you imagine
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I think you are all forgetting that PRITZKER SUCKS ……….the life out of small business
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Illinois politics: Vallas-free since '23
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FuturePastNow posted:Why does Pritzker, the largest governor, not simply eat the other 49? I think he's on ozempic or one of the others; the pics of him in the pride parade this year make it look like he's lost at least 100 lbs.  I'd rather not see him run for president but he's doing a better job here than I expected.
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There's only one house left in my neighborhood brave enough to display the PRITZKER SUCKS signs. Their Trump 2024 sign disappeared a couple months ago though
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FuturePastNow posted:There's only one house left in my neighborhood brave enough to display the PRITZKER SUCKS signs. Their Trump 2024 sign disappeared a couple months ago though How anyone in Illinois can support the guy that pardoned Blaggo is beyond me.
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FuturePastNow posted:There's only one house left in my neighborhood brave enough to display the PRITZKER SUCKS signs. Their Trump 2024 sign disappeared a couple months ago though There's a house I pass by going to work, over on Ozark and Belmont area, that has a gently caress Biden 2020 flag, Trump 2020 flag ,a Don't blame me I voted Trump poster and I think a FJB one as well. I laugh everytime
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Lammasu posted:How anyone in Illinois can't support the guy that pardoned Blaggo is beyond me.
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I still see the Pritzker sucks signs (like the one across the street from my kids grade school) but a lot of them have disappeared. I am starting to see the Trump 2024 signs popping up but not in all the places I expected.
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Saw a DeSantis '24 sign here in Wheaton. Lol. Lmao.
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I saw a Kennedy sign in my block, lol They have autism awareness stickers on their cars, and I think that's why 
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I was doing in home training, and went out in the back with their puppy so we could work on recall wih distractions and saw their old trump sign behind the garage. Made me really sad because I liked these people and they have an awesome puppy.
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Nash posted:I honestly don’t see as many of the JB sucks signs as I used to. But I do still hear how he is letting Chicago take all the money away from downstate Illinois. There’s actually a bit of truth to that, though it a) way predates Pritzker and b) is more the Assembly. It’s all about the LGDF. quote:State-shared income tax revenue is distributed to local governments through the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF). LGDF is a state and local funding partnership instituted as part of the establishment of the State income tax in 1969. LGDF revenue helps local governments fund essential services and programs such as public safety, public health and basic infrastructure construction and repair. This shared revenue also reduces the amount of revenue local governments must collect through local taxes. And the only way to get rid of PTELL is either voter referendum (to drop it) or voter referendum (to become a home rule county). You’re not going to find a whole lot of voters (who trend towards also being home owners) willing to vote for their county to be able to drastically increase their property taxes, especially in ‘2nd highest property tax rates in the country’ Illinois. So (mostly Republican) county boards in the 1990s really screwed their future administrations with that PTELL vote. Instead of owning that and maybe trying to convince their voters to reject PTELL they’d rather go with the ‘Chicago is stealing our tax monies’ which is more palatable to their voter base. Oh: so how does this equate to ‘Chicago stealing our tax dollars?’ Because LGDF money is distributed on a per capita basis. Mo’ people mo’ money. And Chicago has the lions share of the people. Oracle fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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