In less than a week, graffiti at 1415 West Lunt is missing, with the help of "Broken Heart" reader Chip Bagg, who placed a call to @ Properties. The glass door was also fixed.
So, a blog-photo essay and phone call later, the gang markings put on the building by the Ashland Viking Nation Gang were covered with fresh paint.
The removal process normally takes up to 5 CAPS meetings (5 months) and a meeting with the Alderman at his office. Not this time.
Speaking of political, propaganda CAPS meetings, tonight at 7 pm, 1530 West Morse, Beat 2431 meets for the first time in 2006. "CAPS workers may be walking a fine line between carrying out city initiatives and engaging in politics", said Cook County Clerk David Orr, who served as 49th Ward alderman from 1979 to 1990. I say David Orr is wrong, they DO politic. Come talk about 49th ward-Alderman Moore politics featuring Kevin O'Neil, will you?
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A quick call to 311 will take care of graffiti. It might take more than one call but graffiti blasters will eventually show up. It also helps to ask for a tracking number when you call and keep on file until the graffiti is removed. Hope this helps.
thank for posting your expose of everyone else's true agenda
you are an insightful analyst, capable of peering into men's souls
why don't you try speaking for yourself?
> ... post some original substance ...
Why bother? I got you. You are able to articlulate my most deeply held beliefs better than I myself could, even beliefs I didn't know I had!
I'm glad you're here, not Mars. It is a tremendous comfort to me to know that there is someone in the neighborhood crazier than me.
Craig,
Thanks for the link. Interesting technique, hiring workers through a non-profit.
Chicago Hid CAPS Funds, Workers in Private Agency
By Alysia Tate, Chicago Reporter, February 2000
The Chicago Police Department diverted nearly $2.2 million to a private, non-profit agency, which used the money to pay up to 30 civilian workers in the department’s community policing program from 1997 to 1999, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter shows.
The agency, the Chicago Center for Health Systems Development Inc., ... had no direct connection to Chicago’s community policing program, officially known as the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.
Though legal, the transfer of funds effectively made the CAPS positions, whose duties include community organizing and promoting programs, hard to find in the city budget and hidden from public view, the Reporter found. It also shielded them from the 1983 Shakman consent decree, a federal order that forbids the city from requiring employees to do political work. ...
CAPS workers do political work, Shiller told the Reporter.
Do you remember when you were kids and you decided to play war. You'd find some sticks and pretend they were guns. One team would line up against the other and you take shots at each other from behind a tree or a rock. Then you'd go running at each other. It all seemed like a lot of fun until one kid got whacked over the head and started screaming or bleeding.
That's kind of what this blog is all about. A bunch of phoney pretenders. You play imaginary war games against the establishment.
First, you yell and scream because there isn't enough of the development you want to see. And blame all the injustices of the world on some evil cabal.
Second, even if a developer comes around with a great plan you howl like a bunch of babies because it means change and change, no matter how much you scream for it, will never live up to your silly expectations. You hold out some of these old buildings that are falling apart as if they are some kind of holy grail that put's historicness on a plain above common sense.
Third, you want a better class a neighbors, but ooooh, if there's a building going condo, its bad. You neglect to see that investors have to make a profit if you want any kind of decent investment in your community.
Fourth, you dream up imaginary conspiracies and support them with unfounded claims, that if were true would at least make some headlines in the mainstream media.
Paradise has obviously never visited the Cook County Assessor's office page. If he'd done so he'd see that on a square footage basis, single family homes pay more tax than apartment buildings.
But you need to find some kind of axe to grind about SSAs now, because it's much easier to sit on the pitty pot and whine.
Fifth, you'd rather burn bridges than build ones because the latter choice takes work.
TW is playing proud papa today.
Good girl Paradise, papa approves -you get a pat on the head! Naughty bad bad, dinner guests - go stand in the corner with your reishi mushrooms!
I already had a papa who taught me how to play well with others, TW, and believe me, one was enough.
Dear Stone Pro,
First of all, I'd like to remind you that this is a neighborhood blog with some modest watchdog ambitions and makes no profession to being a policy think tank.
Second, I would like to point out that your "useful" proposal amounts to "maybe, maybe, maybe, perhaps, perhaps and by the way, it's the voters fault". Not really compelling stuff from the person that demands such high standards from the rest of us.
How about you keep your sanctimoniousness to yourself until you can produce something that has some actual research attached to it.
BTW - if you can elaborate on what "The influence of money is at play regarding the prevalence of section 8 units vs. homestead units. The government is supposed to be allowing the market to work, and using the market as is. This is a sham, because the market really isn't the pool of those needing housing. The market is the government - which also competes with local rental housing markets instead of integrating its efforts within them." actually means I would be both grateful and amazed.
why don't you learn all you can about Section 8 and share what you learn
My main point, TW, is don't you realize that that paternalistic tone of yours makes many of us cringe. Talk about bad manners. Personally, I agree with many of Paradise's views and I'm glad that she has the time and volition to do the research she's proposing. I do find it a bit ironic though that you applaud Paradise and CSP but flame Toni regularly when they are essentially making the same kind of arguments.
TW and CSP -
Okay, first of all, I am both grateful and amazed. Your explanation of the influence of money on housing options for the poor makes sense. So thanks for that.
Second, mea culpa TW, I was unaware of the depth of the feud between you and Toni.
You guys are being reasonable and I admit that I was a bitch. I am sorry. I must sign off for now, as I have to spend the rest of today removing all the knots in my panties I created yesterday.
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