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Well, that SUCKS! :furious2:

I've heard that the definition of insanity is
...to do the same thing over & over again
...but/while hopeing for a different outcome :huh:

The ONLY way Chicagoans can even hope for a better life or to "fix" things
...is to vote differently ;)

NOT being political :cheers2:

Just sayin' that "if" what (folks) have been doin', ain't workin' too good :mad2:
...then, maybe it's time, ta try something different :thumbsup:
 
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Functional Artist said:
Well, that SUCKS! :furious2:

I've heard that the definition of insanity is
...to do the same thing over & over again
...but/while hopeing for a different outcome :huh:

The ONLY way Chicagoans can even hope for a better life or to "fix" things
...is to vote differently ;)

NOT being political :cheers2:

Just sayin' that "if" what (folks) have been doin', ain't workin' too good :mad2:
...then, maybe it's time, ta try something different :thumbsup:
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Chicago has been a Shıt hole since the beginning, No differently than New Jersey or Most of New York.

What do those three all have in common?Organized Crime sydnicates, and historically being Mafia hotspots.

There is no fix without prejudice because to fix the problem one must start be rounding up and eradicating the miscreants, which in itself poses moral and ethical delimas.
 
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Aldermen already have the solution.
No teens allowed in fancy parts of the city after 8pm. Not in my yard, out of sight - out of mind.

In the 80’s Jayne Byrne moved to Cabrini Green Housing Projects. She lasted 3 weeks.

Not in my yard… Didn’t they solve this problem with the PJ’s? Oh wait…
 
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Chicago has been a Shıt hole since the beginning, No differently than New Jersey or Most of New York.

What do those three all have in common?Organized Crime sydnicates, and historically being Mafia hotspots.

There is no fix without prejudice because to fix the problem one must start be rounding up and eradicating the miscreants, which in itself poses moral and ethical delimas.
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IMO
Folks should say "enough is enough"
...& hopefully start to understand that "it didn't"
..."doesn't"
...& "never had ta, be this way" ;)

What do all (3) of those "areas" have in common? :unsure:

If ya think about it
...& be honest (no BS'in )
...it's the common ideology of their "leaders" :thumbsup:
&
IMO these type(s) of "leaders" are/have been all-to-eager to "look the other way"
...as long as they can proceed with their personal "agenda(s)" :mad:

So, of course organized crime would flourish
...& their cities "fell in to slums" :cry:
 
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Reminds me of:

In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...
But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared
Awaits you... Now many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten down
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood stained streets
It has been written
"Those who have the youth have the future"
So come now, children of the beast
Be strong and Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue)

or

"What you don't know" the legend goes "can't hurt you"
If you only want to live and die in fear
They tell us to believe just half of what we see
And absolutely nothing that we hear
Resist the twisted truth, no matter what the cost
Supplant the rights with wrongs inside our heads
Outlawing all the questions to the answers
That no one likes when someone ends up dead
Dystopia
Dystopia
Dystopia
Dystopia
"What you don't know" the legend goes "can't hurt you"
If you only want to live and die in a cage
There's panic and there's chaos rampant in the streets
Where useless thoughts of peace are met with rage
Demoralized and overmastered people think
The quickest way to end a war is lose
Dictatorship ends starting with tyrannicide
You must destroy the cancer at its root (Megadeth)

Oops...sorry Bob...I'll stop...now :surrender:
 
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That video overlooked one glaring problem. The people didn’t care about anything. Themselves, their home, their neighborhood, their neighbors, and on and on. But in the end they all won out with homes that cost between $250,000-$1,000,000. I wonder how many still live in those houses? My guess is not many.
 
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Denny said:
That video overlooked one glaring problem. The people didn’t care about anything. Themselves, their home, their neighborhood, their neighbors, and on and on. But in the end they all won out with homes that cost between $250,000-$1,000,000. I wonder how many still live in those houses? My guess is not many.
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Did I miss it? Who got $1000000 homes?
The politicians? My father and uncles built the house I grew up in the 80’s. I think it cost $25k in materials and contracted labor. Maybe sold for 10x that when my mom sold it around the time of the 2008 housing bubble / crash.

Irish Catholic Families. We drink, we make babies, we “carpenter.” My pops was an accountant for National Startch and had a plumber side job, his brothers were also in the trades. They all built houses within a few blocks of each other. I had like 5 uncles living less than 3 blocks from me.
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www.chicagotribune.com

THIS PLACE IS KNOWN BY COMPANY IT KEEPS

Some of the things Bedford Park residents can`t do without leaving the village: Buy groceries, go to church, pick up a prescription, attend high school, put gas in the car, go out to dinner, visit the hardware store, see a doctor or a…
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“This is a village, she says, where families have lived and worked for generations. ”Our fathers and grandfathers worked for Corn Products. I was employed by Corn Products, too, and my son then followed. He works for Best Foods. It was a great thing. You were proud and the company was proud to have three or four generations of the same family working for them.”
 
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Slovak Catholic here and it was no different in Indiana. Except after my great grandfather got invited to move out of Brazil Indiana he moved to Whiting and everyone worked for Standard Oil.
 
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Slovak Catholic here and it was no different in Indiana. Except after my great grandfather got invited to move out of Brazil Indiana he moved to Whiting and everyone worked for Standard Oil.
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Best I could follow one line of my family tree on my mother’s side, they came from a village named Grybow in the 1750s. It seems a stones throw from Slovakia, but all of Europe seems like a stones throw.IMG_6477.jpeg
 
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