How many of you ever would've guessed I would throw Joe Moore a bone and include him in one of my issues of Gay Chicago Magazine? I mean really showcase him in a positive way? You'll have to pick up next weeks issue to see for yourself. It hits the streets on Tuesday.
Happy 4th of July, everyone.
Let's look at the other side of the coin for a second. After all, it's the great American holiday, the 3rd of July. The day Chicago celebrates it's Independence with the 23 minute fireworks show along the lakefront.
Speaking of lakefront. Here's the All-American Boy, Jim Ginderske's truck. Parked for free, courtesy of the tax payers of the 49th ward. Here he is, sticking it to the man. The all American way, by not having a city sticker for his rust bucket, pollution spreading truck.
Why bother having Illinois plates either. Like I said - sticking it to the man. Jim don't need no stinking sticker or Illinois plates. He's a rebel. American's just love rebels.
So, here's to Jim Ginderske. Puppet for Joe Moore. We say, way to go. Keep cheating the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois of of valuable revenue needed to fill those pot-holes. You're the man!
The 19 year old who shot the 9 year old last week is being held in jail with a million dollar bond. And the alleged sister says he didn't do it. Not only that, she says this neighborhood is nuts.
Songia Brown said...> "This is the sister of the guy who is being blamed for this mess... withness say it was a Latin king!!, my brother is African american, how the hell could he fit that description??? This neighborhood is nuts and I cannot wait till we move outta this place! how dare they try to pin this on him.. he wasn't even there at the time of the shooting!""He didn't do it...."
That old movie theater staple of North Sheridan Road and the Loyola area -- renamed for years the Village North before closing in January -- reopened Wednesday night as the New 400 Theater. Read more.
2:37 PM: A citizen flagged down a police officer to inform him of a street fight at Morse and Glenwood. Police arrive and ask for an ambulance at 1345 West Morse.
Good police work leads to the capture of the Friday Night Shooter.
A man has been arrested in the shooting of a 9-year-old boy who was walking with his family Friday night in the Rogers Park neighborhood when the attack occurred. At 6:45 p.m. Monday, the 19-year-old man was arrested without incident or struggle in the 1500 block of West North Shore Avenue, according to Rogers Park District police Capt. Thomas Libert. Source/Read more.Well done. One question though. Why aren't they releasing the choir boy's name and photo to the media?
6:00 AM: Calls coming in for "shots fired" at Howard and Damen. Minutes later calls come in for "shots fired" at Touhy and Damen. Officer radios to dispatch that a couple of cars were hit in the 7200 block of North Damen.
Related:
Child Shot on Pratt
Shots Fired on Jonquil/Shots fired on Morse
Shooting Near Loyola University
Loyola Warns of Increase Gang-related Activities
Shots Fired on Pratt
Latest Information on the Morse Avenue Ambush Shooting
Shots Fired on Pratt
Shots Fired on Ashland
Shots Fired Last Night
Shots Ring Out in the 49th Ward.
Bullets Fly in Rogers Park.
Another Shooting in Rogers Park.
Stabbing on Touhy. Shots Fired on Lunt
Who Shot Julio? Does Anyone Care?
Wayne Jones, A Morse Senior Home Resident Attacked & Beaten to Death.
Wayne Jones Death Now Ruled First Degree Murder.
Shooting Victim Now a Murder Victim
Person Murdered at Subway Citgo on Touhy
Female Shot on Morse Avenue.
Shots Fired Near Western - Person Hit.
Shots Fired @ Birchwood and Damen/Seeley
6181 Crimes (and Counting) in the 49th Ward for 2007
Shot Fired on Winchester.
Another Person Shot in Rogers Park.
Mini-Mart Owner Murdered in Broad Daylight.
Youths Hit Man on Head with Hammer.
Gunshot to Head Kills One in Rogers Park.
Shots Fired in the Jonquil Jungle. Again.
Shots Fired on Fargo (Update 6X).
Person Shot on Juneway (Update).
Shots Fired on Estes, Sherwin, Chase and Sheridan.
Shots Fired By Loyola University.
Gun Play Near Sullivan High School? Cowardly Neighbors Think So.
Shots Fired At Police (Updated).
Gunshots at Gale Park.
Shooting on Birchwood.
Shooting on Fargo (Updated in Comments Section).
Shooting at Jordan School.
Multiple Shots Fired @ Birchwood/Rogers/Sheridan/Greenview.
Person Shot on Clark.
Shots Fired on Seeley.
Shots fired on Morse and Lunt.
Female Stabbed on Touhy.
Trash Talk Leads to Shooting in the 49th Ward.
Murder on Birchwood - April 28, 2008
Murder on Touhy #1 - June 9, 2008
Murder on Touhy #2 - June 16, 2008
Shooting Victim Identified.
Police Get Vague Description of Alleged Shooter.
Who's Looking for the Kendre Briscoe Killer?
R.I.P. AL-MAC T-Shirt's.
Ceasefire Holds Two Circle Prayers.
Clyde Flowers Gunned down in the 1500 block of Fargo Avenue.
Rogers Park Crime Wave Claims Alderman's Staff as Victim.
Flashing Got "Freaky Nu Nu" Killed.
Sullivan High School Brawl Nets 16 Arrests
"Documented Gangbanger" Gunned Down in Broad Daylight
Wanted: For Murder
More Shots Fired in the 49th Ward
Shots Fired in Rogers Park Last Night
CLW said...> "Alderman Moore - I hope you are listening! Pigeon prevention spikes under the railroad tracks are lovely, but I would rather deal with pigeon poop once and a while than all of the gang activity. I live on Pratt about a block from where this happened. My neighbors with their young children are afraid to walk east toward Ashland and the high school with their babies in the middle of the day. The police using 'it violates their civil rights' as an excuse not to go after these idiots is a crock. The minute anyone makes the choice to become (or is bullied into becoming) involved in gang activity, they are choosing to give up their rights. This is not a racial thing - I don't care if someone is green with purple polkadots. So neighbors...what are we going to do about this??? Start calling 911 EVERY TIME there is a disturbance or something going on outside that doesn't seem right. Let's watch out for each other and let the police and the thugs know that we have had enough!"
This area of Rogers Park is going to hell in a handbasket.
A child was shot late Friday near Ashland Avenue and Pratt Boulevard in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Source/Read more.Three shootings this week. Are our public officials going to continue to remain silent about this area? What's it going to take to get their attention? Swine flu.... Lakefront parking.... What can be so hard about policing this area? It's already equipped with a couple of those fancy police cameras.
Good afternoon, everyone. It's Timmy, also known as AvondaleLoganSquareCrimeBlotter. This is my very first actual post on The "Broken Heart" of Rogers Park, so bear with me (as I don't thing some things like Craig). Anyway, I will be reporting on crime for the 2:00pm hour in the Rogers Park area today. I hope that you are informed by this hour of crime blogging/fighting. So, here goes, everyone ...
2:00pm - I'm situated and ready to blog. Waiting for the first 911 call...
2:05pm - Sex offense. Howard and Marshfield. Male is urinating in front of the kids.
2:09pm - #2431 has a detail outside of the bank, 6901 North Clark.
2:14pm - Howard and Marshfield is coded 19Paul. Also, #2444 has a handwaver at 7506 North Rogers.
2:16pm - The 7506 North Rogers handwaver is a Theft report.
2:16pm - Criminal trespass in progress. 7225 North Greenview. Male is trespassing into the complaint's bedroom. He took the complaint's wallet but the complaint got it back. He's also got the offender's wallet.
2:19pm - #2424 is giving any other units a disregard on Greenview.
2:20pm - Wanted for Criminal trespass at 7225 North Greenview is a male Black, 5'7, 170 pounds, blue shirt, black doo rag and running shoes.
2:26pm - Burglar report. 7645 North Ashland.
2:27pm - An RD has been pulled from the 2:14/2:16pm handwaver. The radio cut out on me as the dispatcher was giving it out. #2444 said that the scene had the offender's handprints all over it, so no Evidence Tech needed.
2:30 to 2:31pm - I was fighting with the radio to get it to stop cutting out.
2:32pm - #2432 is selected to give #2431 a relief on that detail at Morse and Clark.
2:57pm - Bona fide Burglary from 7645 North Ashland. The TV was stolen.
3:00pm - My coverage on Rogers Park crime is done for today. I'll be back to cover some other time.
4:23 PM: Shift change. Mister Brokenheart taking over. Battery in progress. Large group fight in the street at 1540 West Pratt. Police arrive and the street fighters run away in multiple directions. One group runs south on Bosworth.
6:00 PM: Drug selling on Lakewood. Two male/blacks selling drugs from the alley at Lakewood and Morse.
4:48 AM: 911 calls are flooding in for "shots fired" at Jonquil and Paulina. We're getting "shots fired" at Jonquil and Hermitage. Police radio back to dispatch claiming to hear 4 "shots fired." We're getting "shots fired" in the 1300 block of West Morse. Someone called saying a person is down at Morse and Clark. Possibly from the "shots fired."
(Crain’s) — A pioneering effort to develop a 221-unit apartment building on the scruffy border of Evanston and Rogers Park has been whacked by a $38.2-million foreclosure lawsuit. PNC Bank alleges that a venture that includes a sister company, investment giant BlackRock Inc., and the estate of Schaumburg developer William J. Walsh, who died last year, failed to make the April interest payment on a construction loan for Howard Street Station, 413-421 Howard St. in Evanston.
The 17-story building is next to a CTA rail yard on a stretch of Howard Street that has undergone a bit of a revival in recent years. Source/Read more.
9:55 PM: Multiple callers are informing police of "shots fired" at Pratt and Bosworth. Get this, they're allegedly using sawed off shot guns now.
Welcome to summer, Rogers Park residents. It's going to be a wild one.
8:42 PM: We're getting a couple of 911 calls regarding a group of teens offering one senior citizen a good old fashioned beat down. This public display of affection is going down at Jonquil and Marshfield. Officers arrive to a victim who is cussing and won't cooperate. The teens scatter in multiple directions.
For those who avoided Rogers Park this weekend for one reason or another, here's this years Artist of the Wall.
courtesy dgood.
7:05 PM: We're getting multiple reports of shots fired around Ashland and North Shore. 5 to 6 shots. Witnesses say a male black was seen with the gun. Possible P-Stone gang related.
My protégé, Timmy, hit the big time. Congratulations, young man. Good luck at your new address.
Libby said...> "I was at the IVI-IPO dinner last night and, yes, Alderman Moore tried to crash the reception and he did indeed let loose the f-bombs when denied. But there is something noteworthy about this episode that isn't obvious. The private reception was a smallish affair and a handful of the attendees were long-time IVI-IPO members who, not blessed with wealth, really had to scrape to put together $200 to attend the reception.
They did it because they wanted to support IVI-IPO and, yes, have some time with the Governor, a man they admire.
That Alderman Moore would suggest that pay-to-play applied to this little event with these little people---at least that's how he treats us; he bothers with us only when he needs our endorsement for himself or his friends---is nothing short of reprehensible.
Pay-to-play, at least in the Chicago tradition, requires a few more zeros and some sort of quid pro quo. Is Moore so daft as to think that raising funds for a shoestring organization, and a handshake and a photo with Pat Quinn meets that standard?"
Word from a good source tells me Joe Moore tried crashing the IVI-IPO fund-raiser over the weekend. Not having a ticket, Moore came to the event and made a spectacle of himself. After the host had politely asked Joe to leave, motormouth Moore dropped a couple of F-Bombs on the crowd before he was escorted out of the event.
Classy, Joe. Real classy.
No city sticker. No Illinois plates. That doesn't bother the person who daily drives this truck around Rogers Park. It's ZULAC member, Jim Ginderske.
Then, to add insult to injury, the revenue scofflaw, without remorse, parks his truck free of charge at night. In the lot provided to seniors on a fixed income.
Worse yet with this whole debacle. The tax-payers are flipping the bill.
And, to the best on my knowledge, Ginderske doesn't even live anywhere near these parking lots.
It pays to be connected at the hip to Joe Moore. For at least one year Jim avoided buying a city sticker for his vehicle. Saving him about another $100.
Address: 1553 West Howard Street
Request: Application for a special use permit to allow the relocation of Howard Jewelry and Loan from its present location at 1611 W. Howard Street to 1553 W. Howard Street.
Applicant(s): Howard Jewelry and Loan
Representatives Present: Richard Rozhko
Committee Recommendation: The Committee voted to recommend that the Alderman oppose the application.
Alderman Moore’s Decision: The Alderman will take the Committee’s recommendation under advisement.
Details of Discussion: Mr. Rozhko owns Howard Jewelry and Loan at 1611 W. Howard where he rents his retail space. He is under contract to purchase 1551 W. Howard pending the approval of a special use permit to allow him to relocate the shop, which the city defines as a pawn shop, to this address. All pawn shops must receive a special use permit to operate. The new shop would include a full-service jewelry and watch shop including repair services. The new shop would have no gates on the window. It would have a new awning. The building would be tuck pointed and cleaned up. The hours are 10-6pm and 10-5pm on Saturday.
Members offered positive comments about Mr. Rozhko’s current operation. While many were not thrilled at the idea of a pawn shop, as pawn shop’s go, Mr. Rozhko is known for running a clean operation. They appreciated that this would be a property he would own and therefore be better able to control. They also appreciate that the business obviously meets a need in the community since Mr. Rozhko is successful and hoping to expand, and therefore hire more employees.
However, committee members raised numerous concerns, including concern that the special use permit could transfer to another operator if the business were to be sold.
They also voiced concern over simply approving the presence of a pawn shop on this street which they felt could hamper further redevelopment efforts for the block. Committee members voiced a willingness to reconsider this issue, were Mr. Rozhko to bring forth more specific plans and renderings of the appearance and operation of the proposed space.
Blognotes: This isn't over. I hear Kimberly Bares at DevCorp North and Joe Moore aren't happy about the ZULAC denial for the Pawn Shop expansion. I also hear Kimberly is trying to stack the deck with people who favor her opinion - and she wants to put this back on the ZULAC agenda for a new vote. This month.
Kimberly and Joe are being very sneaky about this Pawn Shop relocation. Word on the street is they're trying to under-mind the zoning committee's April denial for relief. This issue needs some sunlight so the entire community and the media can review all the information. Before any ruling is overturned by these two people in a sneaky way.
Updated:
Howard Jewelry & Loan
1611 W Howard St
Chicago, IL 60626
$500.00 on 6/25/2008
Individual Contribution to the Citizens for Joe Moore
Ah, isn't this special? Free night parking for a neighbor who drives a {cough-couch} Porsche. This car must belong to one of those "poor seniors on a fixed income" - who can't afford to pay $100 a month to park their car.
Alderman Moore……….
So you decided to spend menu money meant for the whole ward, to serve a few. While the rest of us pay for our garage and off street parking – most of the time way more than $ 69.00/month!
How many constituents do you have that you voted with only 100? Did you forget Sheridan Road residents? $ 89,000 benefited what percentage of your constituents?
Why do you continue to support those that refuse to pony up their share of life expenses? Lake front living was never meant to be free – or exclusive to those living along the lake?
Why do you think what you did is fair?
This is a campaign issue to be remembered – you have just disengaged all Sheridan Road parkers who pay for their parking – they don’t expect the Alderman to provide free parking –their reward for paying their way in life is to watch you give what they pay for to others for free!
You should use that money to fix the potholes on Sheridan road –to control the parking signals so residents can exit their driveways, especially weekend evenings.
I hope the City is right at those meters at 9AM issuing tickets –weekends included –make sure they move their cars so the people west have parking spaces when they come to the lake.
The lake and lakefront parking is for everyone.
And yes you correctly understand you have really annoyed me with this “special population” decision.
Jim
Hi, Craig, things were great this week.
June 8: On Monday, my class and I went on our final field trip of the year, to the Chicago History Museum (formerly known as the historical society). It was a nice trip. After the trip, we ate and got back on the bus to school.
June 9: On Tuesday, it was a quiet yet interesting day. I saw no incidents of goofing off but alot of interesting things (discussions and etc.) were going on in both my regular classes and my program.
June 10: My last day of school (until summer school) has came! On Wednesday, things were good. Everyone was just hanging around, doing nothing for the most part. I also saw people wishing each other a happy summer, giving hugs, etc. In other news, my class threw a birthday party for me (my birthday is on the 14th of this month). They sang to me, wished me a happy birthday and other nice things. It's been a pleasure being here at Sullivan for the school year. I've met so many nice people and have made great friendships. I will always remember this school year for the great times I've had. So, to everyone not going to summer school, have a great summer and enjoy your time off! For those going, have a good weekend and I'll be back on Monday.
- Thanks,
Avondale/Logan Square Crime Blotter
Blognotes: What can I say? Timmy was an absolute perfect fit for the 'Broken Heart' this year. It was a pleasure (and honor) to have him aboard. He followed dead-lines, gave me accurate copy and learned to take corrective criticism. His writing also stirred up emotions and trollish nit-picking. Like I said, Timmy's a perfect fit for investigative reporting.
I give Timmy an A.
8:38 PM: Police call for back-up when a large fight breaks out on the corner of Marshfield and Howard. The fight originally developed in front of the dollar store. Back-up arrives and the brawlers split in all directions.
I don't know if there's enough wafers in the rectory? Word has it Joe Moore was passing out donuts before service Sunday at St. Margaret Mary's Church. Then he decided to go in and partake in communion.
This guy doesn't know crap about the history of Rogers Park theatre. Yet, he leads you to believe he does. See, he works for the highly respected Chicago Tribune. Read this rubbish.
"In fall 2004, the Curious Theatre Branch announced its intent to abandon its theater, the former home of the No Exit Cafe on the corner of Glenwood and Lunt Avenues in Rogers Park. At the time, Curious co-founder Beau O'Reilly cited issues with the neighborhood's high crime rate. "There is a difficulty going on in the 'hood," O'Reilly told the Chicago Reader, "that seems to have increased."Well, I don't know how the No-Exit got where it is, you know, permits and all, but I know for a fact, the Curious Theatre didn't move from that location Chris Jones mentioned in his fluffy good news theatre story. The Curious was located on the northeast corner of Lunt and Glenwood. Chris Jones did shoddy research. Probably got his information from Joe Moore?
Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune
June 12, 2009
A 20-year-old man holding a razor and threatening to jump from a third-story window ledge Sunday evening was talked down by two police officers, police said. The man was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
Two officers answered a call of a person threatening suicide at a courtyard building in the 1600 block of West Estes Avenue about 8:15 p.m. There they found a distraught man outside of the window threatening to jump. The two officers calmed the man and persuaded him to seek help, police said. Source/Read more.
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Don't tell me they're already putting our menu money to good use?
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