I'm counting three times this year. I don't have time to find the links to the previous stories posted here, maybe someone else does. Here's how it went down...
...The same store, the same MO. Brake the window in the middle of the night and enter. This time the store owner is guessing - 2 a.mish.
Items taken. Pre-paid phone cards, cigarettes, money, lotto tickets, blunts and chips. Like I said, the same MO.
Early this month at the Special Service Area commissioner meeting, our crack professional neighborhood care specialists on the Special Service Area #24 commission led by Kimberly Bares at DevCorp North are putting a program together to bribe business owners who have gated windows to remove them. And they want to use Special Service Area tax money to do it with no less.
Who in their right mind wants to risk losing everything to these break-in artists for a few Special Service Area Tax dollars? This store owners running out of things to steal.
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Like I have told many times on this site RP is getting better, you see all the nice business's that are moveing on Morse!
Until we get a new aldermen & get rid of DevCorp things will stay the same.
As the saying goes "It is what it is" And what it is is crap!!!
so, if we see someone walking around trying to sell these various and sundry items, can we call the police on them?
Exactly if you don't get it you never will. No one here is a bandwagon jumper. If you have to ask you never will get the answear.
Your right the gentrification of Chicago has been bad for the city, improveing neighborhoods, and all that comes with this process has been bad.
That's why other cities have been trying to improve their areas ( Baltimore, Cleveland , even Los Angeles)
Shame on all involved to try to make things better. All cites should follow the Detroit plan.
I agree that RP is a great neighborhood, everyone who posts a comment on this site all care about RP if they didn't they wouldn't read let alone post a comment. The change has to come from the people who run the ward. the currect people who run this ward only care about their own interests and those of their friends. Don't want to think about the waste of tax dollars!! Are opinoins might differ but all those who post on this site I consider friends & would buy anyone of you a drink!!
Thanks Jeff, for the record my condo is in the 49th ward I live right at the edge of RP.
Your right I do have to slow down on my typing, I miss words come across alittle off.
Sorry that our neighborhood displeases you, Gay RP'er. We tend to like it, even though it is not East Lakeview.
One of my professors, who had had some experience fighting slumlords in New York City, had come to the conclusion that the common perception that slumlords are making large profits by deferring maintenance isn't true. The reality is that "slumlords" are making fairly ordinary profits. Their buildings are in disrepair not out of negligence or greed but because the rents that poor people can afford to pay simply aren't high enough to make it possible for the landlord to maintain quality housing stock.
His solution was increased public housing funding. I would suggest in particular housing choice vouchers (where the difference between one-third of the recipient's income and the cost of the rental unit is paid by the housing subsidy). Housing choice vouchers allow avoid concentrating recipients, which I think has obvious advantages. Of course, it's clear that the political will for public housing of any sort is at a low ebb these days.
And the amazing thing is, THERE WAS STILL BROKEN GLASS on the sidewalk last night, when is DEV CORP going to get our cleaning crews to do their job right and clean up the rest of the broken glass????????????
Get this, the store owner left a box of glass behind after the board-up job. It was there overnight until 49th ward Streets and Sanitation supervisor Mike Erikson and I removed the potenial hazzard waiting to happen.
Thanks Mike.
Thomas, you will find that number to be very close to accurate. You go in many neighborhoods in Chicago and you find just what Paradise stated in their blog that there are buildings that are half sold & several other buildings being built or converted.Nothing say's over built like the south loop I was down there Sat eveing for a party, My GOD!!! Overbuilt is a understatement. Question: Who is buying ALL these condo's??
It's possible a good number of those are already under contract throught the developer's pre-construction/rehab sale. Usually, a developer has to get a number of signed contracts for the units before a bank will give out the construction loan. Assuming that banks were involved, of course.
Happy to help.
DevCorp North is the not-for-profit, taxpayer-supported branch of Ald. Joe Moore's ward organization. Moore mainains a diversified portfolio of organizations to promote himself, including political committees such as "Citizens for Joe Moore," "Network 49," and the "Democratic Party of the 49th Ward." A 501(c)(3) subsidiary of Moore, Inc. is convenient for the Alderman because it is easier to secure public funding for non-profit corporation (public money going to a political committee has to laundered first through a benefactor). Moore used his legislative office to endow DevCorp North with a minority share of the ownership of the taxpayer-subsidized Gateway Mall, and establish zones in Rogers Park with special property tax assessments to support DevCorp North's operating expenses, known as "Special Service Areas".
DevCorp North serves the Alderman by publicizing his activities in their publications, by staffing the Alderman's "community" zoning committee, and by authoring an annual "crime is down" report. DevCorp North is the Alderman's legislative bureau. DevCorp North has been primarily active in legislation related to property taxation, and in particular, in raising property taxes on homeowners in Rogers Park by spearheading legislation to rebate property taxes to Rogers Park's largest landowners, including S&C Electric, Loyola, and Combined-Development Howard LLC, the owners of Gateway Mall.
For more information on DevCorp North, please see
DevCorp North owns Gateway Mall
DevCorp North's Accomplishments
DevCorp North Revenue
DevCorp North: dedicated to the corporatization of Rogers Park
DevCorp North on Crime
I am going to play devil's advocate: the industry is laying people off to save money and because things are not as red hot as they were a year ago and because inventory has been built up. However, properties are still selling and you can still get an ARM for under 6% and lock it in for 7 years after which it can only rise 2% a year with a lifetime cap of 5%. At the risk of dating myself, I remember when you were lucky if you could get a mortgage for 10% or less. The sky is not yet falling.
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