Chris Adams, candidate for Alderman in Chicago’s 49th Ward, received the endorsement of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber represents more than 2,000 business members in Chicago and the Chicago region.
“We believe very strongly that Chris Adams is the person who can deliver Rogers Park from what has been – for 16 years – an unfulfilled promise,” Jerry Roper, president of the Chicagoland Chamber, said of the Political Action Committee’s endorsement. “The businesses and residents of the 49th Ward deserve much better than what they have gotten. The current Alderman’s continuous attacks on the business community have left the 49th Ward isolated while its neighbors Evanston, Edgewater, Andersonville, West Ridge and Lincolnwood have flourished.
This endorsement is a nod to the residents of Rogers Park that we want to help you create a better future.”
Rogers Park has lost more than 800 jobs, according to the most recent statistics, while 29 percent of the community’s largest employers have either left or closed. Gateway Plaza, the community’s largest retail development, remains half empty after nearly seven years of operation. A recent survey by the Chicago Sun-Times identified Rogers Park as one of the city’s neighborhoods that is underserved by grocery stores, calling it a grocery “desert.”
“The Chamber’s support is not just an endorsement for our campaign, but recognition to the entire community that our concerns are shared throughout the city and the region,” Adams said. “Certainly we welcome the support of the Chamber and its many partners while we work to build a full-service community that addresses the need to fix economic development as well as address the needs of our schools, public safety, transportation and affordable housing.”
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On the morning of the day our Community Development Commission approved the LaSalle Street TIF, Mayor Daley held a anti-big box rally on the far south side.
Sleight of Hand
Daley’s big-box brouhaha obscured the rubber-stamping of the LaSalle Central TIF
By Ben Joravsky, The Works, September 29, 2006
Roper attended Daley's pep rally, but he beat feet downtown and also spoke passionately to the Community Development Commission in favor of the LaSalle Street TIF.
"These are OUR property taxes." Roper told the Commissioners, speaking for downtown businesses and building owners. "We need to protect them."
By "protect" Roper meant to say prevent them from going to our schools. Roper and Chicago businesses think the property taxes they pay belong to them, not to our schools.
Roper and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce are no friend of Chicago homeowners. Chicago homeowners are at war with Chicago business over who will fund our schools and local government, and homeowners are losing big time. 7 months from now when the 2nd installment bills start hitting mailboxes, there will be only ONE issue in Chicago politics, and we will be looking back at the February election, asking ourselves, "What were we thinking?"
This is no endorsement for any candidate to be bragging on.
Did anybody run down the Adam=Wal-Mart thing. The Topnika supportor would of course have COC behind him. So all you progressive liberal leaners will swallow the big biz candidate? I'm starting to get the point that you guys really don't want Moore. Just becareful what you wish for kiddies.
The Sullivan endorsement is meaningful to me, a Moore supporter. I love what Mr. Sullivan has done on Jarvis. It's nice for him to inherit all that wealth, and it's nice that he used no city/tax/tif/funds, but lets face it, his grandfather or great grandfather buildt those buildings. So he is a rich gets richer guy, but even using daddy's money doesn't take away from the jobs he created and the quality of life improvement he provided. I love the pizza joint. But he did a wonderful thing and the fact that he's attacking Moore is the heavest thing I've seen yet to affect my opinion.
Not having been born last night however I will still do my fact checking on Sullivan's position on Moore. But in all honesty all the yada yada on these blogs have little effect, Mr Sullivans words do give me pause. The COC for Adams tells me he in no way would ever get my support, Frankly I'd be surprised if the RP lefties would approve.
Roxy
Here's an interesting tidbit... Adam's wife works for The Chamber of Commerce. Check it out.
No wonder he got the endorsement. She sent out Adam's information to everyone within the chamber and got in trouble for it!
No matter if it's a good thing or not, he still didn't get it in a fair manor. But I guess that's how politics work!
3601 is the magic number. The incusion of much of the Loyola University community in the ward guarantees a steady turnover of voters from the student body. The key is who bought the condos.
Pro 1 2 3 or 4. Or will we see 8K voters this election. Will there be a run off? The ward has a significant number of nursing homes (which creates voter turnover).
The ward also has a significant percentage of immigrant residents, which further reduces the pool of available voters.
Dear Mr. Gernhardt,
My name is Samantha Kramer and I am a student at Northwestern University. I am part of a group that is doing a research project on Rogers Park. I am covering crime in the area and was wondering if I could ask you a few questions. Please e-mail me at samantha-kramer@northwestern.edu if you are interested. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Samantha Kramer
P.S. I would love to hear from anyone else who wishes to give their views on crime in Rogers Park.
Roper & Adams photographed shoulder-to-shoulder, smiling. That's a major, major problem if you are a property tax-paying homeowner.
I'd like to echo hugh and northcoast, Adams is a non starter, here is one big reason, watch your wallet.
Roxy
samantha, there seems to be as much crime in and around the NU campus as there is in rogers park, so why not focus on evanston? interesting...and to add my two cents. I'm all about Ginderske (sp?) at this point. I heart him at a recent debate, and he is the most solid of all the candidates...however reassuring that is.
Chris Adam's wife has nothing to do with the Political Action Committee of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.
From here on out, no further discussion will be made about any candidates family members, period. Those comments will be deleted.
Chris Adams has clearly said that he is NOT a fan of TIFs except in the case of extremely blighted areas (comment made at RPCC forum last week). There is nothing on his website to indicate overtly or by code that he's pro-TIF.
Those who have a problem with the Chamber endorsement must be insane. Every single one of the candidates EXCEPT Joe have a very clear PRO-business platform. Isn't this a good thing? Don't we want businesses in RP? Can't we have shops here where we can buy dog food beyond the lousy offerings at Dominicks? Edgewater has Bark Bark Club and Fidos (among others). Can't we have more restaurants, like Edgewater? Maybe even another pub like Hopleaf? Businesses provide residents with services AND jobs. Or would you rather RP remain in the backwater of both?
As for Chris Adams' wife: she is SVP & GM for MWW Group, a public relations firm. Prior, she was with Hill & Knowlton in public affairs and healthcare. Anyone who has a real thirst for facts instead of slander could have found this info. with a very quick google search. Those who state otherwise are outright lying,lazy, or stupid.
http://www.prweek.com/us/blogs/showpost/7c1fcc45-0c73-4c6c-8481-83ae6910ca65
Joe already has a Chamber of Commerce. It's called DevCorp North.
Joe isn't personally responsible if they don't act like a real Chamber of Commerce.
What is "Tepid" Adams going to do? Fire Kimberly Bares and hire his wife?
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I voted for the Skeletor (Gordon) in your little poll. I supported Gordon from the outset as the only candidate whose vision for the ward lines up with my own.
I have since supported Gordon because I can see that he is the only candidate who has any respect for property rights. Adams seems a little weak on the concept, given his proposal for a 12-month morotorium on condo conversions, and Ginderske seems like a classic 1960s socialist. No one has the right to insist that any private property owner set aside 30% of his units for a particular income bracket.
And we all know where Moore stands..... unlimited rights to ruin the ward for his slumlord and developer buddies, while harrassing his opponants.
The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is pro-TIF and pro-Big Subsidized Business, which is a good reason to be distrustful of anyone they endorse. TIF development is bankrupting this city, and almost every TIF development in this city has resulted in a net loss of jobs and business, all to line the back pockets of a few favored developers and national chains.
There are many ways to be 'pro-business'. I personally favor a 'pro-business' agenda that would remove obstructions to all legitimate local, businesses, large and small, without funneling tax money to large chains, and I tend to favor the candidate who will promote the "Andersonville" style of small, finegrained retail development over the 'big, tax-funded development' model.
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