Didn't We Predict This?
Cesar Delgado has been working at his family's booth at the Maxwell Street Market selling tools and hardware since he was 8. He's seen one big change after another come to the legendary market. But the latest one caught him by surprise.
The City Council last week sharply raised the fees paid by Maxwell Street Market vendors to cover the cost of "moonwalks," or "jumping jacks" -- those inflatable playgrounds that the city has long provided for free to neighborhood block parties. Daily fees will double, from $40 to $80, with the yearly license fee rising to $75 from $25.
"That's a drastic change, especially on the daily fees," Delgado said Sunday. "It sounds like something that could finish the market off. Some vendors will find it very hard to make the money back."
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Thank fuck all the dumbshit kids will have a safe place to bounce around in as they get shot at. What an unfunny joke.
Speaking of great deals at the Maxwell St. market, anyone interested in buying a loaded Guard's RED 1986 Porsche 944 TURBO with only 42,000 miles?
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...damn, I don't envy those who cannot flee Shitcago because of the bullshit that keeps piling up...
But the alderman got their raises, and no budget cuts...makes sense to me...let's impeach this midget.
OK, this article explains the fees better than the a previous Libune article.
Wow, a doubling of the daily fee. Yes this will crush many of the sellers. That is one high entrance fee. I have no idea what a typical vendor makes. But I am geussing not much and that an additional $40 per day will cause many to stop selling.
It's a conspiracy! The Mega Mall has spent millions lobbying for Maxwell's demise.
On the bright side, most of the vendors and people shopping at Maxwell Street are illegals anyway. At least they're paying into the system somehow. I don't recall seeing any jumping jacks at the Northside block parties. So if it's their kids using them, let them pay for it.
If you think CPD fishes to discipline its officers check out this story.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/34969524.html
Has anyone ever been behind the buildings located at 39th and Wood. The building east of the old A/1, which currently houses TRU. You know, the one across the street from the Keesing Bandit's old watering hole. To the best of my knowledge, the building is used for misc storage of leftover goods for different wasteful projects that the king has ordered. (These items, bought with tax dollars, usually vanish after awhile). (All star, life size bobble heads were one such item a few years ago----not sure what happened to them.) Anyway, getting back to the building. During the past 5-6 years, that wonderful jumping jack program leased (yea, like the hired trucks) many many vans (best guess---25-35. Most of these vans had Indiana registration. The purpose of these vans----to transport the jumping jacks to different events. Who owned them? How much did each of these vans cost the city to lease? How many were used on a daily bases? It always seemed to me, no matter what time of day, or what day of the week, there were an awful lot of leased vans remaining in that lot-----you know, the lot that is completely hidden from public view unless you happen to drive down the corridor lined with squad cars, and even then, without inquiry, these simply look like white vans with Indiana registration. Why did the Alderman fight so hard to keep these jumping jacks? Do they care about the kids in their Wards? Do they care about the company(s) leasing these vans to the city? Are the jumping jacks also leased? Who's got that fat contract? Oh yeah, don't forget about the appointed jobs for those who will have to spend the summer driving a few jumping jacks to a few neighborhoods, plugging them in, and watching the kids jump around for an hour. Who gets those jobs? How many people are hired for that duty every summer? How much are they and their numerous bosses getting paid? I'm sure the children of the wards are the very last thing that the alderman were thinking of when they fought this battle with all their might. Great to know that these elected officials are spending their time looking out for our best interest!!!
Thanks Alderman
P.S. my neighbors' children contracted pink eye after jumping in your filthy jumping jacks this year. Maybe you should raise the taxes a little more so that you can hire another company to clean those filthy things!!!!
Now imagine this on a national level with BHO.......
It's so sad that the answer to everything is TAX TAX TAX. The problem is that the people of chicago cook county keep electing these fools that have no idea how basic economics works. You can never tax yourself into prosparity!
I just saw daley walking... i mean waddling through city hall wearing a tuxedo ... quank...quank...guank
OT: No wonder no one trusts the leadership of this messed up department any more. They waited until after all the watch bids were over to announce the changes with the gang teams when they knew about it long ago.(It's their same old sneaky, business as usual ways.) Then J-Fed lies and says "after talking to the rank and file the decision was made" LIE! Not one fucking person heard about this cause if we knew many would have bid out. If they told us and were honest it would have gone a long way as far as trusting them goes. Today there was a memo from the deputy chief asking for input and what everyone thinks about the change. But wait, I thought J-Fed got input from all of us?
No Trust, No Morale, No Contract, No Work!
sgt skidmark has left the building.he has left his mark on all.the original clout baby.by far the biggest liar this department has ever had.a true incompadent.you will not be missed.
Shitcago will be the next Detroit! Is this mayor a fool or what. With these economic struggles and people spending less and being more savvy with their finances how can you keep raising fees?! If people are spending less, how will the vendors cover the extra fees that have doubled/tripled. Unfuckingbeleivable!!! I guess those are the ideas they come up with when you have a CPS education.
How to send a message to Obama?
Remove your money from the Ariel Fund at deffered comp! His new social secretary will hear about it from her husband, John Rodgers.
But caps will prevail! Ahhh hell with it just get another event number. WAIT...they can do seatbelt missions there.
It will never happen!! The Sup will put together a 750 Officer Unit to curb "Jumpin Jack Murders"!
Makes you think back to the days of FDR's New Deal, when the Supreme Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act on the argument that it was illegal to tax one industry to support another.
Yeah, I'm old. So get off my lawn!
dam were are we going to sell all this stolen shit now?
Daley is gonna tax the city back into prosperity.
why doesn't the city tax all the illegal food vendors in the 10th
district someone's getting paid
Open fire hydrants and "Moonwalks" are the only things that have kept the youth of Chicago from killing 1,000 of eachother every year since at least the mid-1960s. Daley I understood this. "Keep 'em tired and keep 'em wet".
06:03, A message to Obama for what? He hasn't done anything yet! Wake up! The country is broke. Its been de-industialized and outsourced for the benefit of billionaires. To maintain a decent domestic standard of living, they decided to turn houses into ATMs and expand the pool of of homeowners to huge numbers of the unqaulified. The ponzi game is over! While I'm not an Obama fan, he didn't do any of this. All of this was done under the direction of 12 years of Bushes, 8 years of Clinton, and Democrat and Republican Congresses.
Hey Short', how 'bout closing the jumping jack down? The time it takes for the crew to set up an take down is, longer then the time the kids get to use it.
Start charging the block parties to use the thing. All families can chip in. It time to charge the end user.
While your at it, charge for the Fire truck, and the police, horse and dog units that go out.
In this time of financial trouble, if you don't have the $$$ then do with out. We the citizens do.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Open fire hydrants and "Moonwalks" are the only things that have kept the youth of Chicago from killing 1,000 of eachother every year since at least the mid-1960s. Daley I understood this. "Keep 'em tired and keep 'em wet".
11/25/2008 08:21:00 AM
You gave me a great Idea, put a meter box on the fire hydrants and jumping jacks that accepts cash or link cards for use. Charge by the minute. Do the same for police and fire service. The first domestic each year is free. Same goes for the first burning pot on the stove.
predicting the end of maxwell street is a little drastic ...
but a fee increase of that magnitude is crazy.
It's always off the backs of hard working people. to help the one's that sit on their asses.
sgt skidmark has left the building.he has left his mark on all.the original clout baby.by far the biggest liar this department has ever had.a true incompadent.you will not be missed.
11/25/2008 04:04:00 AM
Two questions:
1-Who is Sgt. Skidmark? I checked my nasty drawers and I want to know how you knew what I didn't know you knew before I knew it?
2-What is an incompadent? MF, did you try to sound out the word, incompetent! Please take an extra second and check the dictionary before you post. Doing so, you will quit embarassing us, on our blog, with your misspellings.
bring back the old "jewtown" on halsted street circa 70's and 80's. plug in the old blues brothers tape and watch jake and elwood get matt "guitar" murphy and "blue lou" from aretha franklin's soul food joint. that was the real maxwell street. one jewtown dog to go with plenty of onions and mustard. several showers and days later you still smelled like onions. those were the days.
Why doesn't this idiot city raise the fees on the drive-by shooting permits?
Perhaps too racist?
you want to see some WASTE?????????? do you guys see all those little yellow trailers that Water Management (sewer dept) has that they use on small sewer jobs,that sit overnight on these jobs, well the city USED to own them, but........ they sold them to Michael Taden and guess what, he leases them back to the city, I wonder how much of a kick "Cock" Daley gets
Anonymous said...
Open fire hydrants and "Moonwalks" are the only things that have kept the youth of Chicago from killing 1,000 of eachother every year since at least the mid-1960s. Daley I understood this. "Keep 'em tired and keep 'em wet".
11/25/2008 08:21:00 AM
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So you're telling us that when a hydrant is open or jumpingjack is set up, they lower the murder rate. That makes no sense at all. What about all the parks, pools, fieldhouses, basketball courts and every other free things they're given. Daley Jr. isn't worried about keeping them wet or tired, he's worried about cultivating votes.
Daley could install a jumpingjack and hydrant in every home and they would still find an excuse to kill each other.
39th and Wood??? Horrors!!! I never travel south of Madison St. I don't need to be around people whose knuckles drag on the ground when they walk.
I need to get to the bathhouse to calm myself.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Shitcago will be the next Detroit! Is this mayor a fool or what. With these economic struggles and people spending less and being more savvy with their finances how can you keep raising fees?! If people are spending less, how will the vendors cover the extra fees that have doubled/tripled. Unfuckingbeleivable!!! I guess those are the ideas they come up with when you have a CPS education.
Wrong, our fearless leader went to DeLasalle, so don't blame this mess on us CPS gradutes that went to school and got learned...
The jumping jacks are dirty filthy disease spreading junk, run by a bunch of gang bangers why did we keep this? Who has this huge contract? connected to which alderthief?
Anonymous said...
why doesn't the city tax all the illegal food vendors in the 10th
district someone's getting paid
11/25/2008 08:07:00 AM
010 District alone could close the deficit if they actually made the illegals with the crappy food and juice carts on every corner on every street actually pay for licenses and taxes on all that cash income. The violations are totally ignored, we dont need them circling the 010th District again protesting the laws of this City and State. Why are they allowed to continue? Where is the City Revenue collectors with their ticket books? Why should the citizens get taxed to death and these illegalls draw from our funds and earn more cash on the side than we could working honest jobs? AP was fired over the $1 bag of trail mix, when MUCH more $$$$ is being stolen from legit stores and restaurants by these unlicensed illegal/unsanitary "cart pushers". Why dosnt the city act on this???
Interesting read about how Cook County is currently ranked #2 in the Nation in Lawsuit Abuse. No surprise there, but at least someone's bringing it up.
http://www.ilrillinois.org/spotlight/cook-county.cfm
can we pour tea into lake michigan? instead of sqeeeeezing the working man...how about telling the 40% to man up and pay their share of taxes? maybe we need some '' sanctuary'' from the taxman. this city is gonna crash...too many people on the freebie wagon that will soon be grinding to a halt.
Anonymous said...
why doesn't the city tax all the illegal food vendors in the 10th
district someone's getting paid
11/25/2008 08:07:00 AM
Because one of the Hispanic pols, whose name escapes me at the moment, owns them all! Its true...
A State Rep. or Senator or something!
When I worked down there, we tried to force them into compliance, but word "came down" real fast to knock it off. They are a "cultural comfort" for the community and that license enforcement in that area would be a discriminatory act against the residents.
I'm talking 10-12 years ago, now!
Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. Politition has taken from the Chicago tax roles and put into his own pockets since then!!!
For those unfamiliar, the food carts in the Little Village area, (and now everywhere else illegals live), number in the hundreds.
Not only do they not pay for licenses, they also fall through the cracks of Health Dept. inspections, since they are not licensed to a specific location. I wonder how many have become ill after eating at these festering mobile swill holes?!?!?
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who owns the property? maybe clout babies thinking of more condo's?
save the vendors Shortshank. charge an admission. contracts anyone?
In a TUX?? LMAO.
What the fuck is so important about these stupid Jumping Jacks?
Fuck this ghetto entitlement crap. I'm sick of it. Get jobs, take care of your children, dont't let them sling dope of join gangs. Take responsibility for your life and be accountable for you actions. I know this is the anti-Jesse J message of get mo free shit but how long do you think you can be parasites on society.
Why don't they use the old hospital beds from Michael Reese Hospital instead of the jumping Jacks. Thay would be a lot of fun and cheaper.
All you folks nearing retirement get out while you can ..the pension fund will get even whacked more in 2009, as stock market will decline to 6,000 on the Dow ...shortshnks doesn't have the money to pay all of us
"...shortshnks doesn't have the money to pay all of us
11/25/2008 06:56:00 PM"
Sure he does.
All that's needed is to turn his ass upside down, hang him over the edge of the city hall roof and shake.
"I know this is the anti-Jesse J message of get mo free shit but how long do you think you can be parasites on society.
11/25/2008 05:53:00 PM"
Until the host dies.
Of course, the parasite isn't smart enough to figure out what happens after that.
"What the fuck is so important about these stupid Jumping Jacks?
11/25/2008 05:47:00 PM"
$$$$$$$$$$$$
"In this time of financial trouble, if you don't have the $$$ then do with out. We the citizens do.
11/25/2008 08:40:00 AM"
There's one, fatal flaw in your reasoning.
We, the citizens, had the $$$, but some bobble-headed, bow-legged, mumbling, stuttering midget took our $$$, with the hollow promise of using it for our benefit, then socked most of it away, in his little, stinky sock drawer.
Our $$$ is still there, just not planned on being used for our benefit.
If even a small portion of it ever makes it back into the world, you'll be able to tell where it's been, just by the stench of it.
"11/25/2008 08:31:00 AM"
With the cooperation of the predominantly mindless mass of consumers, aka the public.
"I need to get to the bathhouse to calm myself.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
11/25/2008 11:57:00 AM"
Now, now, you know you don't go to the bath house to calm down.
How can you kill the chicken that supplies the eggs?
Time to find other sources of funding. How about 1505 funds. Inexhaustible now that J-Fed will allow drug trafficking if gangs are not involved.
Interesting read about how Cook County is currently ranked #2 in the Nation in Lawsuit Abuse. No surprise there, but at least someone's bringing it up.
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Not surprised we're not no 1. Who is no 1?
This change shocked everyone, but I am curious who the "rank and file" are that he spoke to. Is Leo the "rank and file?"
11/25/2008 04:28:00 PM
He is skank defiled.
Anonymous said...
Thank fuck all the dumbshit kids will have a safe place to bounce around in as they get shot at. What an unfunny joke.
11/25/2008 12:09:00 AM
Keep them jumping. It's hard to hit a moving object.
daley is starting to look like he needs a bath again.what a greasey looking fellow he is.
06:03, A message to Obama for what? He hasn't done anything yet! Wake up! The country is broke. Its been de-industialized and outsourced for the benefit of billionaires. To maintain a decent domestic standard of living, they decided to turn houses into ATMs and expand the pool of of homeowners to huge numbers of the unqaulified. The ponzi game is over! While I'm not an Obama fan, he didn't do any of this. All of this was done under the direction of 12 years of Bushes, 8 years of Clinton, and Democrat and Republican Congresses.
Wrong, Obama was in bed with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for years...
why doesn't the city tax all the illegal food vendors in the 10th
district someone's getting paid
Because they are Hispanic and that would be politically incorrect and considered discriminatory and racist; on the other hand, if the illegal Irish or Polish were selling sausage and beer from carts on the corner they would be arrested and shut down immediately... fact
Interesting read about how Cook County is currently ranked #2 in the Nation in Lawsuit Abuse. No surprise there, but at least someone's bringing it up.
??????????????????????????????????
Not surprised we're not no 1. Who is no 1?
11/25/2008 09:51:00 PM
I can't imagine ANYWHERE being worse off. please tell us who is #1?
Mr. SouthSide says---
I think that gay Keesing Bandit ought to know that my knuckles only drag on the ground when I am not standing straight up.
Besides, your gay guys at 39th and Wood are more manly than the straight guys up north.
"Maxwell Street"???? Jesus, it's gonna be called "Nothwest Highway St" pretty soon. The way Daley keeps pushing those poor bastards north and east, trying to hide them from the prying eyes of anyone with a designer dog or a business degree. I guess he figures extorting them could work too.
Studs Terkel is turning over in his grave just to give shortshanks a big FU for that one. I can practically see him.
Horrors!! Again, I am referred to as gay. The fact that it comes from a caveman from the south side makes it worse.
Let me repeat that I am not gay. Like the vast majority of north side men, I do suffer from their sexual orientation issues, but I am not gay.
I feel so violated.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Since when did Northside switch to Porsche?
Whatever happened to the Caddy fixation?
"I guess he figures extorting them could work too.
11/26/2008 06:54:00 AM"
Of course.
Extortion, via taxations, seems to always work for him.
Can it be that there are just not enough working, voting, taxpaying citizens to overcome the number of voting, non-working, non-taxpaying citizens every election?
Or are the majority of working, voting, taxpaying citizens just waiting for the 'right' candidates to vote for? Rather than voting for anyone BUT the incumbent assholes?
If so, that's going to be a long, long wait.
Kees me you fool is getting a bit riduculous. Please stop commenting for all our sakes!
"....Kees me you fool is getting riduculous...."
Perhaps you are right. However, I don't think it is as bad as not being able to spell ridiculous.
So in honor of you....
Double kees me you fool!!!!
I would've answered back on the extortion topic but I lost you. Either your way too smart for me or you're dazzling yourself with bullshit. We can cut to the chase. Daleys greed has become so pronounced that Helen-fucking-Keller can see it. If he thinks that a bunch of guys on Maxwell St. (I feel like an idiot calling it that.) can't see him for the greedy, crook that he is, he really probably does have a tumor or something. The hardest working men and women in our city, and he's putting the muscle on them. Boys and girls, I for one, am going to go down there and protest. Maybe some DePaul writer with a bleeding heart will hear their plea. I'll wear a Chalkie T. See ya there, if your there.
"I feel so violated.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
11/26/2008 11:04:00 AM"
So, Christmas came early for you, this year?
Christmas comes early for me every year.
Now, kees me you fool!!!
"11/27/2008 03:42:00 AM"
Protest all you want to.
The only protest that counts is on Election Day.
When there are more votes cast for a single challenger, and, in this city, county and state, it had better be a lot more votes, the incumbent loses.
In the party primaries, the incumbent losing eliminates that person as a candidate, of their respective party, in the General Election.
In the General Election, the incumbent losing eliminates, for, at least, the length of that election cycle, that person from remaining in their former position of elected authority.
When enough citizens realize that voting out incumbents is the absolutely necessary precursor to having the most candidates on the ballot worth voting for, then, and only then, will this vicious combine of corrupt politicians, both republicans and democrats, no longer run our governments into the ground.
We have what we commonly refer to as idiots running our governments.
Idiots they are not.
What they are is very smart, clever manipulators, using their skills at manipulating to enrich themselves and those who assist them in their manipulations.
The actual idiots are the voters.
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