I don't care in the least what you think. I think you're either f*cking weird as hell and a liar, or just scared to death of life in general
Either way, the weekend was amazing. I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift, but she had to schedule another sold out show at Soldier Field because there was so much demand over the last weekend. Lots of teens out "after sundown" when they should be terrified and in their bunkers, according to you and your supposed friend at the Peninsula, where I can afford to stay but someone like you clearly cannot.
Also, there was a 20 minute fireworks display at Navy Pier that started at 10:00 pm on Saturday night, a White Sox game at the same time...plus Gospel Fest.
Well, does that mean thee wasn't gang violence in Austin; the last neighborhood before you hit Oak Park? No. Does that means gangs on the far South Side weren't shooting each other? No.
But today there were kyakers in big groups down the river, tour boats full of tourists seeing the incredible architecture of Chicago in jam packed boats. Double decker busses with tourists drive all over this incredibly vibrant and growing down-town. People running along the River Walk and Lake Shore Path. And people of all places eating at the finest restaurants in the world, all while you are hunkered down in your bunker waiting for Trump to return to office.
Listen, either stop bitching about Chicago or don't visit or move here. No one cares if some hillbilly who was, apparently, really into the Video Lounge in Bloomington comes here. Stay far, far, away from here because someone like you someone who ruins great places for normal people.
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Ummmm...that never happened in Chicago. But as part of the loons who support Trump, they blather whatever they want.
If you don't like Chicago. Don't come to Chicago. Simple.
You're drinking the KoolAid. Don't. If you and your wife were picking up your kids in Austin (adjacent to Oak Park, I'd understand). Even then, gangs don't have a beef with you and your kids.
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I’m a parent and a husband. I worry about my daughter and wife. It has nothing to do with “drinking the Kool Aid.” It has to do with reading about or seeing mass killings or riots/group attacks at large gatherings.
As for your condescending explanation of where Austin is, I live in River Forest. I also spend time volunteering in neighborhoods like Austin (and have taken my kids there, too), acting as a guardian ad litem or child representative for disadvantaged kids navigating their parents’ divorces. How much time have you spent in Austin? Englewood?
He's probably spent zero time there. He thinks the nice areas have all been peaches and cream the last several years when it hasn't. Shooting/murder a stones throw away from solider field a couple hours after swift concert got out. Shooting/murder near the hospitals in Streeterville. Near weekly issues near millennium park on the weekends where you don't want to be milling around enjoying the parts of downtown he just referenced. As you can get jumped for no reason other than you're outnumbered and a cop isn't there to protect you. And yes that happened maybe a month ago. Never a peep from him on those.
Man, this really resonates with me. Myself and my wife, my wife especially, have spent many Saturday mornings driving into bad neighborhoods with local not-for-profits. It scares me every time she gets in the car to do an “event.” Almost all of her free time going to helping others. Organizing events, filling in when people call off day of because they’re scared of the location. You have no idea.
Paying out the ass in taxes every single year for the past two decades? What do we have to show for it? The land mine potholes in front our place are not getting fixed unless I fix them.
That’s what’s always fun about these discussions on this board with 1. People from Indiana who live in the sticks and have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to the inner city 2. Yuppie Streeterville drunks like @DrHoops . They don’t even know the half of what they’re posting. Posers too afraid to admit their living situation isn’t paradise. They don’t want their friends, family, neighbors to think they are not king shit living the dream. Probably uploading selfies to Instagram as we speak. Then he calls me a liar? Time to start with the man in the mirror bubba.
Posters like @zeke4ahs don’t know their ass from third base when they’re spewing their opinions on the inner city, left wing policies and how they affect our country.
BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Sit down and be quiet please. Thank you.
Two questions:
1) Have you ever been shot at?
2) Why don't you move?
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No one cares if you are here. In fact, we don't want you here.
I have spent a lot of time there, given two of my good friends are professors at Dominican. Again, I will say it like this (and please watch Bowling for Columbine. An old movie that still delivers), I have never, ever had a problem in Austin. I am not in a gang or involved in a gang war. I'm of no interest to gang bangers there, Englewood, Washington Park, or anywhere else.
They are killing each other. They don't have any interest in me.
If I were the triggered one, would I be the one FREAKING out and telling outrageous stories, labeling a city that is known as the greatest for tourists in America as a hellhole, and not being able to be out after dark?
You must have a serious misunderstanding of the word "Triggered"
His actions will speak louder than those words … if he doesn’t back it up … it will rebound.
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Oak Park is next to Austin. But it is not Austin.
abc7chicago.com
Oak Park shooting: 4 Chicago men shot during west suburban funeral procession, police say
Madison Street is closed in both directions near the shooting.
I highly doubt the backstory traces to Oak Park.Oak Park is next to Austin. But it is not Austin.
Oak Park shooting: 4 Chicago men shot during west suburban funeral procession, police say
Madison Street is closed in both directions near the shooting.
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It doesn’t. Funeral processions from Westside to cemeteries in Forest Park go down Madison through Oak Park and Forest Park.
Least shocking development ever, but maybe a little surprising only one dead.
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Willowbrook isn't very close to Chicago, either. It's truly suburban, and very white:
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Willowbrook, IL are White (Non-Hispanic) (77.8%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (14%), White (Hispanic) (3.87%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (2.37%), and Other (Hispanic) (1.09%).
And it's not just happening in the south and west sides. 5 shot in Lincoln Park near the zoo over the weekend. They come up and drink in the streets of the park and it goes down. Happens often, but little if anything is ever done about it. Truly crazy times.
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One of our law clerks had to leave this morning. His brother is working downtown over the summer and was walking to his office from the train this morning and walked by a homeless guy outside of a 7-11 (there are homeless on many blocks in the Loop) and the guy attacked him out of nowhere. Brother had a concussion, in the ER at NW, and was having memory issues. Sucks. My office was really shaken up.
I must have walked by a thousand homeless people over the last 20+ years working in the Loop. Never had this happen to me before. Weirdly, though, tonight on my way to the train, an older guy, clearly not mentally well, started yelling and cursing at me.
I must have walked by a thousand homeless people over the last 20+ years working in the Loop. Never had this happen to me before. Weirdly, though, tonight on my way to the train, an older guy, clearly not mentally well, started yelling and cursing at me.
Happened to me two times in Chicago, once in 2007 and another in 2019. Luckily no actual physical strikes ended up occurring, but these mentally deranged homeless are a huge problem.
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Sounds like the kid is OK. He's a former Div III college football player too. Really got clocked. Can't remember the incident but has regained his general memory.
M-O-V-E
The Kid Down the Hall started his career at Kirkland. Saw some weird things. Had to get out. The taxes; the politics; the weather; the crap such as you’ve mentioned.
Lovely place to live
wgntv.com
‘Terrifying’: Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, damage property
It’s the latest takeover in the city that has left residents and local leaders searching for solutions.
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Well it is according to the resident Doc here! LolLovely place to live
‘Terrifying’: Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, damage property
It’s the latest takeover in the city that has left residents and local leaders searching for solutions.
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I thought that was going to be a link about the smoke here now. Awful.Lovely place to live
‘Terrifying’: Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, damage property
It’s the latest takeover in the city that has left residents and local leaders searching for solutions.
This happens every year at the Belmont stop the day after pride. Seems like they could run the trains express past the Belmont stop with a phone call.Lovely place to live
‘Terrifying’: Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, damage property
It’s the latest takeover in the city that has left residents and local leaders searching for solutions.
The cops getting caught flat footed every other month needs to be addressed.
Considering the mayor is a clown and the FOP doesn’t respect him, they probably just laugh. The entire crowd should have been hit with heavy pepper spray.
Ask McM. Borders are fluid when it comes to violent crime. According to him, no one can figure it out because they don’t read as much as him.Oak Park is next to Austin. But it is not Austin.
Oak Park shooting: 4 Chicago men shot during west suburban funeral procession, police say
Madison Street is closed in both directions near the shooting.
