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Clouseau posted:Chicago has a worldwide crime reputation mostly because of the mob history, but even ignoring that it was called Beirut on the lake when I think Harold Washington was mayor. It was called Beirut on the lake because of the political conflict between the mayor and the council, not because of crime
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Chicago being the murder capital of the world or whatever is one of those kind of thoughts that gel in people's brains like music or game genre preference or the "fact" that the world is ruled by a secret cabal of Jewish people or something stupid like that. Once it's in somebody's skull past the age of 25 or so, it's in there for life barring extreme reevaluation.
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Badger of Basra posted:It was called Beirut on the lake because of the political conflict between the mayor and the council, not because of crime Duh, council wars. Remembering now that a couple pundits tried to start saying Council Wars 2 because Lightfoot narrowly won a few votes.
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Aug 18, 2023 14:43
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Governorchat is reminding me how Rod Blagojevich put his name on the big signs over the new I-Pass lanes on 355, basically taking the credit for removing the tollbooth traffic jams. And when he got kicked out of office in 2009, those signs got replaced that very day. 
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Aug 18, 2023 14:48
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His and Daley's names are still on the Illinois International Port's silos
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Aug 18, 2023 14:58
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What ever happened with the free school lunch for everyone bill? It passed both houses in May, latest news is that it was sitting with Pritzker to sign it, but I can't find anything recent.
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Powered Descent posted:Governorchat is reminding me how Rod Blagojevich put his name on the big signs over the new I-Pass lanes on 355, basically taking the credit for removing the tollbooth traffic jams. And when he got kicked out of office in 2009, those signs got replaced that very day. those trucks were staged and ready to roll the minute the impeachment vote was final
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Aug 18, 2023 15:00
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Jows posted:His and Daley's names are still on the Illinois International Port's silos Daley's name is on an alley a couple blocks from my place. It is wild seeing how many things he made sure his name was on that would survive.
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Got this in my water bill today: https://www.wheaton.il.us/StormwaterUtility Anybody in Champaign, Downers Grove, Highland Park, Libertyville, Western Springs, Wilmette, or Winnetka or wherever might have implemented this have any thoughts on it? One of those "my example looks like it'll be cheaper!" but who knows in all reality.
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Deathlove posted:Got this in my water bill today: https://www.wheaton.il.us/StormwaterUtility I'm in one of those, and honestly I haven't noticed whether there's a difference in my bimonthly bill or not (although from not particularly noticing, I suppose that probably means it mostly averaged out). I also like the concept fine on its own, so favor it even if there is a bit of added cost for me.
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Clouseau posted:Duh, council wars. For the way the council is structured/operates, it's laughable how many votes she lost. A war would've required Lori to have had a cohesive base of political support, though.
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brugroffil posted:What ever happened with the free school lunch for everyone bill? It passed both houses in May, latest news is that it was sitting with Pritzker to sign it, but I can't find anything recent. https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2471&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103 Became law a week ago. I hadn't heard of this, I'll need to see how it's implemented or when it starts. It says effective immediately but our school district has said nothing about it, so I'm guessing theres some deviled eggs in the details Edit: looks like school districts have to voluntarily join the program trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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Aug 18, 2023 18:00
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Time to start yelling at my school district! Thanks
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brugroffil posted:Time to start yelling at my school district! Thanks  um actually that's no such thing as a free lunch
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Deathlove posted:Got this in my water bill today: https://www.wheaton.il.us/StormwaterUtility I had my bill on auto pay, so I hadn’t opened my city sewer bill this month yet. But looking through that website, it looks like the average house should pay about the same in storm sere usage. I looked at my current bill ($7.50) and compared to the residential example ($5.94). So even if my long driveway ends up driving up the first portion a bit, it might add another $1 a month. And I am in a home with kids who are not the best about shutting off the water. Now if you live in a place with a full pool/patio for a backyard, it still might go up a little, but what’s an extra $1-$2 in the grand scheme of things. It’s the businesses that are going to get hit harder. They are going to go from the low $10-$20 a month to $150ish. But unless the business is on the razor edge of collapse, is $100 a month extra going to actually cause them to close? I know they are all going to whine like it will, but probably not. And like many things, if they don’t do something like this, they will just raise the current rate in some way to make up the shortfall.
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https://twitter.com/capitolfax/status/1693791216708554909
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Well reading is... for liberals and Chicagoans? I guess?
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Well reading is... for liberals and Chicagoans? I guess? Probably more anti-trans stuff from the usual suspects.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Well books are... for liberals and Chicagoans? I guess? corrected: The rest of the state is only allowed to work on papyrus and clay slates obviously, in the republican mindset. Gotta bring America back to the 1860s. BCE, that is.
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Not passing out from the heat is a liberal thing too. High school baseball games were sometimes cancelled from the gross heat this weak. I heard more than once it was the liberals’ fault that the kids weren’t playing in the 115 heat index. Oh to live in a small chud town
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https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1694584894695886948 Praying in support of Radiation for the first time in my life.
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We need more nuclear so I hope it's not the radiation that gets him.
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Aug 29, 2023 22:13
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Who knows, maybe some ties to the Unification Church might get revealed.
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In true American decidence it will be a zipgundam
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Illinois House “Freedom” Caucus (batshit reps from here in southern Illinois) is hosting a fundraiser in Effingham with convicted felon, conspiracy theorist and pretend historian Dinesh D’Souza. Tickets to his talk is $30 VIP Tickets are $100 and you get your photo with him. Private Donor tickets are $1000 (or $1500 for a couple) and you get to eat some lovely conference center food with Dinesh and the legislators BUT HURRY NOW BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY 20 SEATS AVAILABLE!
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Aren't they worried having convicted criminal Dinesh D'Souza near by will lower property values?
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I don't think I could even consider to go to something like that if they paid me $1,000
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D'souza's shittiness causes people to overlook how loving weird he is. Like he said a guy voted for Hilary because she bought him a stake dinner.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Illinois House “Freedom” Caucus (batshit reps from here in southern Illinois) is hosting a fundraiser in Effingham with convicted felon, conspiracy theorist and pretend historian Dinesh D’Souza. I had a brain fart and thought, "well who are the other two besides Dinesh?" 
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I have no idea who he is and I don't want to know.
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He's one of the older conservative pseudo-intellectual grifters. A trash human being but a big name for loving Effingham.
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Neat https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1700234918146515154
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Hopefully it's not a Foxconn-style rug pull, though. I do think JB's not dumb, like Scott Walker, which is helpful.
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Foxconn basically felt like they were dead in the water immediately. I too hope this isn't the same.
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There are zero details in that tweet. Did Illinois even provide them any tax breaks? The Foxconn deal in WI was also supposed to bring in 13,000 jobs, so this is a lot smaller in scope in comparison.
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Where is this and whose water are they polluting?
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I read Manteno, so the Kankakee River.
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Bird in a Blender posted:There are zero details in that tweet. Did Illinois even provide them any tax breaks? Local tax breaks over something like a 30 year period. And state incentives if they bring in a certain number of jobs. I found some articles that mentioned the incentives. They seemed much more reasonable and spread out over time, compared to the FoxConn “gives us mostly everything, including the land up front” deal. But the articles were high level views. Plenty of time for crazy details to be revealed. Or something dumb like this being based on obsolete tech to hit the news. /edit: https://electrek.co/2023/09/08/gotion-bringing-2-billion-ev-battery-gigafactory-to-illinois-jobs/ quote:Gotion’s decision to call The Land of Lincoln its new home was hardened by Pritzker and the state’s REV (Reimagining Energy and Vehicles) Illinois incentive package, plus a new fun called “Invest in Illinois.” Pritzker has been publicly courting prospective OEMs in the EV sector to come to Illinois and Gotion is now the first to take advantage of Invest in Illinois – which will provide the EV battery developer with $125 million in capital. Orvin fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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*Edited to not confuse people.* Dammit, a local restaurant that I love eating at is having a meet and greet with Darren Bailey. Also, my daughter’s teacher shared the announcement ON HER PERSONAL FACEBOOK and said how great it is that he is running. Just bummed to see a nice teacher be able to support him. Also, Trump junior is coming to the Effingham area so things are going great in Southern Illinois. Darren Bailey only just runs for office, nothing else. If he loses to Bost, what does he run for next? Senate or just head straight for President? Bizarro Kanyon fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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