low-key that plot of land on Roosevelt across from the icon place is a goldmine for construction of that tier
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There are murmurs that Google will be looking to do a large-scale expansion in Chicago (they want an entire campus).
WeWork would then occupy the current Google offices in the West Loop and convert them into co-working spaces. Which could have benefits for the entrepreneurial-minded out there. Also, wanted to inform brehs of this dope organization based in the Chi that centers on Black involvement with the tech space.
It's important for African-Americans to carve out a niche within the tech-sector b/c it'll be where a majority of the wealth will be created moving forward.
Walgreens HQ headed to the old post office also..
Yall see a sista won the congressional district for the western burbs 
Yall see a sista won the congressional district for the western burbs
Yep. Cacs tried to throw a Hail Mary talking about she wasn’t a nurse because she wasn’t changing diapers in a nursing home. I’m just glad Rauner is done. Pritzker is Madigan errand boy tho so IDK
It’s crazy cuz Blago was the best gov we’ve had recently despite the whole scandal which I think was blown outta proportion. Dude serving 14 years and its nikkas with attempted murder getting out in 8
With Rauner out, I wonder if EBT card cuts will get reverted. People out here really needed those funds.
Only way this will happen is if the community fights for it, as they should. What's more important than putting food on your table?
Only way this will happen is if the community fights for it, as they should. What's more important than putting food on your table?
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Pritzker & taxes?
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Largest ever reward announced for tips leading to arrest of Rogers Park shooter
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Never seen a reward when a cpl people get knocked off in south/west side....
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Never seen a reward when a cpl people get knocked off in south/west side....
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she got the machine.
she had the advantage but now that mendoza is apparently in, it's going to be a real fight assuming toni is in.
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Holocaust-denier gets nearly 40 percent of vote in 2 Mount Greenwood precincts
Art Jones has denied the Holocaust happened but also said that the Jews who were killed by the Nazis were “a bunch of stinkin’, rotten, communists.”
His own Republican party has called him a Nazi.
Still, in his losing bid for Congress, he actually won several suburban precincts and got nearly 40 percent of the vote in two Southwest Side precincts.
His electoral showing was 56,000 votes or 25 percent of the total against 3rd district incumbent Dan Lipinski, a Democrat.
Lipinski won in a landslide, but the race left many struggling to understand how 56,000 people voted for a Nazi — hoping that it was just clueless voters punching a straight Republican ticket, not residents who quietly support his views.
About 10,400 of ballots cast for Jones — nearly 19 percent of his total — came from Chicago voters spread across 11 Southwest Side wards.
His strongest performance in Chicago came in parts of the Mount Greenwood neighborhood in the 19th Ward, where he garnered nearly 40 percent of the vote in two precincts.
Ward 11 – 15.55 percent Jones
Ward 12 – 11.04 percent Jones
Ward 13 – 12.91 percent Jones
Ward 14 – 14.80 percent Jones
Ward 15 – 8.04 percent Jones
Ward 16 – 7.06 percent Jones
Ward 18 – 11.28 percent Jones
Ward 19 – 24.79 percent Jones
Ward 20 – 3.85 percent Jones
Ward 22 – 9.06 percent Jones
Ward 23 – 15.87 percent Jones
Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) could not believe that anyone in his community knowingly voted for a Nazi. Instead what happened, he surmises, is that many conservative voters simply checked every Republican on the ballot, unwittingly voting for Jones.
“They go right through the ballot voting for every Republican, not doing their homework, not doing their research,” O’Shea said.
“As much as I’d like to think I have an electorate that’s engaged, I think there are some folks who strictly vote Republican, they don’t research candidates,” he said.
“There are not Nazi supporters in my community,” O’Shea said. “And if they did know, that’s despicable. . . . Art Jones is a despicable person.”
Lipinski also attributes Jones’ vote count to an uninformed, knee-jerk Republican electorate.
“There’s no question that some people everywhere support this type of hate,” Lipinksi said Thursday during a phone chat, noting that Mount Greenwood is one of the most Republican parts of the voting district.
“But the insinuation that people in my district, especially on the Southwest Side in the area where I grew up, would support a Nazi, I find that insulting,” he said.
Jones, however, scoffed at the notion that folks didn’t know who they were voting for.
“Baloney!” he said during a phone conversation Thursday. “After all the exposure of me being labeled the ‘Holocaust denier’ in the media, it’s impossible for me to believe.”
Instead, Jones said, voters either agreed with his positions outright, or voted for him despite of his Nazi background because they supported his stance on other conservative issues.
However, a woman eating lunch at a Mount Greenwood diner Wednesday confirmed that she voted for Jones by accident after blindly casting an all-Republican ballot.
“If I’d known I would not have voted for him,” said the woman, 80. “I regret it.”
At a Mexican restaurant across the street, a 24-year-old woman who lives in the neighborhood said: “That’s just how it is over here, everyone is Republican. It was an accident. I’m sure of it. It’s all city workers and cops and firefighters in this neighborhood. There are no Nazi lovers here that I know of.”
A 28-year-old woman who has lived in the area for several years paused while walking her dog to chat about the issue. She hoped the Jones votes were cast by accident. But the fact that one of her former neighbors had confederate flag stickers on his car casts a shade of doubt, she said.
Daniel Rother, who lives in the nearby Beverly neighborhood, spoke bluntly.
“I don’t think it was an accident. Art Jones was in the news a lot because he was a Nazi,” Rother, 65, said while heading into a Mount Greenwood restaurant.
“There’s lots of prejudice in Mount Greenwood,” added Rother, a retired city worker. Residents “probably don’t support that Jones is a Nazi, but they support that he’d keep the neighborhood white. That’s just the mindset.”
In Will County Jones received more than 38 percent of the vote — or 30,379 votes — and narrowly beat Lipinski in four precincts — three in Homer Glen and one Lockport.
In suburban Cook County Jones received nearly 29 percent of the vote — or 34,497 votes — and eked out wins in two precincts — one in Lemont and one in Orland Park.
In the tiny portion of DuPage County that took part in the race — two precincts in Downers Grove — Jones had mixed results. In one he received 22 percent of the vote; in the other he got 45 percent.
“A study would need to be done, and I hope one is done, to figure out how much of the vote for Jones was on purpose and how much was ignorance,” said Cook County Clerk David Orr, whose office is charged with tabulating suburban votes.
“But nothing is shocking to me because, unfortunately, under President Trump we see this sort of resurgence of people wearing racism and intolerance on their sleeve or feeling like it’s okay to be blatant about that,” Orr said.
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Waka Flocka is the main influence of youngins wearing dreads in Chicago and that style of music.
Not the ORIGINATOR.....but he is the main influence of the young Chicagoans
Not the ORIGINATOR.....but he is the main influence of the young Chicagoans
