Monday, September 26, 2011

How to Bankrupt a Fund

  • As Chicago's 1991 municipal elections approached, Mayor Richard M. Daley was consolidating power for his first re-election campaign. In Springfield, two state senators — Daley's brother John and his political ally Jeremiah Joyce — introduced a "shell bill," an empty vessel into which lawmakers later would stuff an astonishing public pension giveaway to Chicago union officials.

    That pension giveaway was among more than 100 provisions eventually added to the shell bill, but never debated by either chamber of the General Assembly. Instead, 10 members of a bicameral "conference committee" that evidently never held a meeting shaped the legislation to achieve their political goals. By the time the heavily larded bill was ready for passage by the two chambers, another Chicago Democrat, state Sen. Emil Jones, assured his colleagues that the bill wasn't controversial. "These provisions incorporated within this bill have been agreed to by the (city) administration and the pension system and the laborers," Jones told his Senate colleagues the day the bill passed in January 1991. "The people in the city of Chicago came together and agreed."

You want to know the who, how and why that Illinois is on the verge of fiscal collapse, it isn't the unions doing it. It's the union leadership.
  • Twenty years later, as the Tribune and WGN-TV reported last week, 23 retired union officials from Chicago stand to collect about $56 million from two ailing city pension funds, thanks to the 1991 law. More union officials evidently are in the pipeline to receive the lavish benefits included in that legislation.

    Sure enough, two days after the pension changes passed the Legislature — departing Gov. James Thompson signed it into law — the city's unions lined up to endorse Mayor Daley's re-election campaign. He would serve another 20 years with organized labor's support and acquiescence.

Go read the entire thing. It'll answer a lot of questions and open a lot of eyes.

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132 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Emil Jones for those with short memories is the "Political Godfather" of the President of the United States of America. When Obama was a legislator in the Ill. State Legislature, Jones made sure that Obama looked like he was legislating, when in fact he was not. Bill Daley is the President's Chief of Staff. The disease that is Illinois Corruption has gone national, and the working chumps will pay the bill.

9/26/2011 07:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It isn't the union leadership bankrupting the funds, it is all the doing of Richard M Daley who used city pension funds to buy political support.

And now when the bill comes due, Daley suddenly doesn't have the fire in the belly any longer.

No one knows how screwed the finances of Chicago are better than Richard M Daley. No wonder he kept proclaiming his love for Chicago, I would love an unlimited open pot of money too.

Once again, most of the City's problems can lay at the doorstep of Richard M Daley.

9/26/2011 07:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FOP officials get the exact same pension as you and me. No enhancements. No bullshit.

9/26/2011 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...now when I google "second city cop"the site does not come up. Somebody is toying with this insignificant blog???

9/26/2011 08:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

where is the f.b.i.?....oh thats right....eric holder would never let them go after the chicago machine...after all...they got obama elected....an entire state that has been looted by the daley family and he gets to walk away.....

9/26/2011 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Instead of being surrounded by bodyguards, daley should be surrounded by jail guards

9/26/2011 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am curious as to why you, like the media, failed to mention that this does not apply to the police union. I know my pension contributions aren't financing a big payday for the people I elected to represent me.

9/26/2011 09:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Emil Jones was Obama's mentor in the Illinois senate.

9/26/2011 09:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would like to personally thank the members or the Bridgeport, Mt Greenwood, and Beverly communties for providing these people with landslide victories in each of their elections.

9/26/2011 09:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And for all the dem bashers make sure you read the whole article. Because there are plenty of Republicans that helped ram this bill through.

9/26/2011 09:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is Criminal Behavior, blatant criminal behavior and these people should be in prison! What an outrage

9/26/2011 10:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Put the Chicago Machine in charge.

9/26/2011 11:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

let Democrats run it.

9/26/2011 11:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

imprisondaley.com

9/26/2011 11:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where were all the Investigative Reporters when this legislation was passed and put in effect? I guess the Good Democratic Governor Thomson & his fellow Democatic Mayor Daley had quite a stranglehold on the Media during their tenure.
Well done gentleman, but maybe now that you both moved on to bigger more profitable lives, you left Mr. Madigan and a few others "out to dry".

9/26/2011 12:06:00 PM  
Anonymous bobbo said...

Guess everybody gonna get on the "Link" card program...

9/26/2011 12:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A petition to save the Police Helicopter has been initiated at Rahm's website. Individuals can vote and comment on this idea at

www.chicagobudget.com

under Public safety

9/26/2011 12:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

shady mother fuckers

9/26/2011 12:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daley wanted and got peace from the labor unions by buying off their leaders who then sold out their union membership.

Somebody had to know that this was going on when it happened but no one, not even the press, questioned it.

Where were the pension fund managers?? Why didn't they raise a stink?? Were they getting their hands greased, too?

Daley makes Capone look like a saint. Capone was an honest working man who made his money by selling something that the public wanted. Daley stole it from the public under law.

9/26/2011 12:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is just the tip of the iceberg with corruption. The trial of Cellini is the real serious scandal and it's not getting any attention. If Rezko or Cellini spilled the beans our politicians would all get housed.

9/26/2011 12:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What an evil shameless leach Daley and his relatives are; they're like a cancer on this city and society.

Jim Thompson who also should be in prison arrogantly espouses on the virtues of elected politicians. He gave away the store to the Wirtz and Jerry Reinsdorf
He didn't care it wasn't his money, it was the tax payers.

May carmadeal them what they deserve.

9/26/2011 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????

9/26/2011 01:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Get rid of these inflated pensions, get rid of the gold braid for everyone (Police and Fire). You retire at your highest career service rank, no matter how high you go. You only pay into it what you will get out of it. I.e. Commander would pay into the pension at what he would as a LT, and would only draw a LT pension upon retirement.

If you are fiscally sound, you should be able to live on that pension, as many others already do (and less). Invest or save some of the money you make a member of the command staff and there won't be any issues. Live within your means and help us save our pension fund!

9/26/2011 01:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Where's the Patriotism said...

Mind boggling.

Were there no muckrakers in 1991? Are there any more today besides the article's author Jason Grotto?

Thanks SCC.

Next up . . . Patrick Fitzgerald have anything to say . . . .

[crickets . . . silence . . . . ]

9/26/2011 01:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

AGAIN, Where's the Feds?

9/26/2011 01:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let a Daley Crime Family Member handle it!

9/26/2011 01:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daley should be in jail!

9/26/2011 02:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like a story FRONTLINE would be interested in.

---not a cop

9/26/2011 02:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why isn't Daley and company behind Federal bars?

Where is the News Media at to
report the Theft of Pension monies?

This City really SUCKS!

Da Pelon

9/26/2011 03:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was just reading this new Gallup poll and wondering what the G20/NATO summits will be like:

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Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government

Key Findings:

82% of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.

69% say they have little or no confidence in the legislative branch of government, an all-time high and up from 63% in 2010.

57% have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems, exceeding the previous high of 53% recorded in 2010 and well exceeding the 43% who have little or no confidence in the government to solve international problems.

53% have little or no confidence in the men and women who seek or hold elected office.

Americans believe, on average, that the federal government wastes 51 cents of every tax dollar, similar to a year ago, but up significantly from 46 cents a decade ago and from an average 43 cents three decades ago.

49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. In 2003, less than a third (30%) believed this.

more >> http://www.gallup.com/poll/149678/Americans-Express-Historic-Negativity-Toward-Government.aspx

9/26/2011 03:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And these thieves are nickle and diming us everyday to make themselves look good. Can there be some kind of federal investigation of this corrupt mess? Any doubt this state is broke. You can throw weasel Cullerton into this story. Another low life ass licker.

9/26/2011 03:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When the city and the pension plans file for bankruptcy ALL these contracts can be redone.

The towing contracts with the department of Streets and San's writing random abandoned vehicle and tow orders for legal vehicles in order to raise money for the clouted towing contractor, the parking meter contracts, all of it..

9/26/2011 03:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope to see Da Ex-Mayo in a pinstripe suit with leg irons before he hits the dirt. The whole family should go with him Maggie, Bill, John, Mike, Patrick, Nora ect, ect, ect. NEVER EVER should another Daley ever be elected to any office ever again!!!!!!!!! They are the face of Crook County!!!!

9/26/2011 03:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...and just look who's back to grab some more of the taxpayers money

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Seven former Chicago aldermen now lobbying City Hall

Seven former Chicago aldermen — William J.P. Banks, Charles Bernardini, Mark Fary, Terry Gabinski, Patrick Huels, Terry Peterson and Miguel Santiago — are cashing in on their clout, lobbying their former City Council colleagues and other city officials to approve projects for developers and other businessmen.

[...]

==============

Check out their pensions !!

more >> http://www.suntimes.com/7766875-417/seven-former-chicago-aldermen-now-lobbying-city-hall.html

9/26/2011 03:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CLOUTED ON THE BACK SOF GOOD CITIZEN
If Saddam can go why not Dem maachine but then again u have those amongst us that support it for their crumbs of their spot

9/26/2011 03:29:00 PM  
Anonymous oh, dat's Right said...

Who was duh Gubernor who signed dis shill bill? Duh second cumming of Clarence Darrow himself, duh defender of Blago, duh great "Big Bill."

9/26/2011 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what hurts the fund, the fact that the city has not put in what they owe. the fact we are down in nos. the market is down. higherups get sweetheart pensions. neither the city or union can be trusted to protect the fund. emil jones forced the cfd to hire minority accuarys, the result 5 million lost, this occured a few years back. and young daley buys real estate, is this legal.

9/26/2011 03:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT pam zekman sends health inspectors to check cubs and sox concession stands .
Where's the investigative reporter and health inspectors in the little village neighborhood , 100's of unlicensed , no running water , vendors taking $ and serving food all day long outside of schools .
Who is protecting the vendors ,no one operates open and norotious in chicago for free .
They are not mom and pop operations , many are dropped off.
no english , dinero rules , no police , health or revenue dept enforcement.

9/26/2011 03:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT :


Illinois Huntley Tea Party to Hold Forum on Concealed Carry

Illinois --(Ammoland.com)- The Huntley Tea Party is holding a forum on the Right of Citizens to Conceal Carry at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27 at the Codman Cultural Center, 12015 Mill St., in Huntley, Illinois

9/26/2011 03:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Instead of being surrounded by bodyguards, daley should be surrounded by jail guards

9/26/2011 08:41:00 AM


Actually...it should be Dirt and a Pine Box.

9/26/2011 03:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

no english , dinero rules , no police , health or revenue dept enforcement.

9/26/2011 03:40:00 PM

Would be nice if they'd let Revenue enforce the things that the CPD are too morale broken to enforce...

But then we'd have to get ANOV books....and would still be tripping over Cops for Street Cleaning and Rush Hour enforcement.

9/26/2011 04:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: I used Google to search "Second City Cop" to read the blog. Usually it is the first or second website listed. Today, I went through five pages and couldn't find the link. I thought that you had deactivated the blog! You may want to look into this.

(I'm not a cop and I work in the computer industry. I very capable of knowing how to do a basic Google search.)

9/26/2011 04:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...now when I google "second city cop"the site does not come up. Somebody is toying with this insignificant blog???

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I found that odd too. It used to show up right at the top where it should be. I think the Yahoo and Bing search engines are okay though.

Wonder how long it's been like that -- how much traffic has been affected?

9/26/2011 04:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Political party don't matter much any more! We the people need elected officials that don't rob, rape and steal! Starting to look like an honest politician is a myth!
Obama needs to go, PERIOD!

Daley thought he was the King not Mayor and needs to be charged in federal court!

Rahm needs his ass kicked by someone ANYONE! and should be a prison bitch himself for the bullshit solar panel company!

more emphasis on working, productive people, less on welfare! why cut ss for people who worked to earn it? cut it for every dumb ass that didn't but get a check anyway!

9/26/2011 04:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's been said before.....if there were an Olympic competition for governmental corruption.....
Illinois: bronze medal
Cook County: silver medal
Chicago: gold medal (the gold standard of corruption).....hey, at least we're first in something!...

9/26/2011 04:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
And for all the dem bashers make sure you read the whole article. Because there are plenty of Republicans that helped ram this bill through.

9/26/2011 09:42:00 AM

You're right. Ointment or suppository is our choice.

009 days

9/26/2011 04:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
A petition to save the Police Helicopter has been initiated at Rahm's website. Individuals can vote and comment on this idea at

www.chicagobudget.com

under Public safety

9/26/2011 12:21:00 PM

Why?

009 days

9/26/2011 04:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: FYI

Posted on Alderman O'Connor's Facebook page, today:

Mary, the 41st ward citizen’s blog has been discussing public safety in the 41st ward. A question from the readers: Will you be issuing a public statement to the city council about the police shortage in the 41st ward, specifically asking for all the sworn police officer positions lost through attrition in the last three years be reinstated (estimated to be about 100 positions)? Thank you

9/26/2011 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT--

File under "World Gone Mad, Mass Hysteria" --

I just glanced at the TV -- it was an accident, I swear I didn't mean to -- and I saw a "news story" about the evils of cheese.

Presented on the screen was an illustration of Death Himself -- a black-robed, hooded, spectral figure with an even deeper shadow for a face, wielding a scythe -- with a wedge of yellow cheese atop His head.

*

All I can say is that people in Wisconsin are going to take this pretty hard.

Excuse me. I need to go and take my medication now.

Refs. --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_
Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_
Crowds

9/26/2011 04:57:00 PM  
Anonymous P.O. Randy Stevens, Dist. 018 said...

Don't expect the new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, to do anything about this. After all, HE became a multimillionaire through his connections with "public service." To those in power, it is a given that they will become very wealthy by stealing / accessing funds that they should not be able to touch.

But from us, they demand that we participate in "shared sacrifice." With the cost of food and energy constantly increasing (frequently at double-digit annual inflation rates) and the City always telling us that we should be grateful to get a 1 or 2 % raise, EVERY year from now on, the purchasing power of our paychecks will drastically DECREASE. But Rahm and Richard became millionaires while they "served" the public. I guess to them, the elite ones, "serving" means self-service...helping themselves to more and more $$$, through graft and corruption.

9/26/2011 05:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Left out of the story is the fact that cronies of these business agents got all the overtime and promotions. I'd love to see a national right to work law passed.

One of the double dipping business agents with a special pension told me my advanced education wouldn't count toward a promotion. He was right since all the promotions were fixed.

9/26/2011 05:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

...now when I google "second city cop"the site does not come up. Somebody is toying with this insignificant blog???

9/26/2011 08:20:00 AM

This is correct. I tried it and the blog didn't come up like it has before. I have the site bookmarked.

9/26/2011 05:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was duh Gubernor who signed dis shill bill? Duh second cumming of Clarence Darrow himself, duh defender of Blago, duh great "Big Bill."

9/26/2011 03:33:00 PM

You mean Jim?

9/26/2011 05:40:00 PM  
Blogger Rich Rostrom said...

This is Criminal Behavior, blatant criminal behavior and these people should be in prison! What an outrage.

9/26/2011 10:48:00 AM
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As pundit Michael Kinsley wrote of Washington, "The scandal ... isn't what's illegal. It's what's legal."

This was legal. Disgraceful, outrageous, immoral - but not illegal.

Just A Civilian (who is almost burned out being angry about this kind of thing)

9/26/2011 05:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just look at Intel unti 191 they have a Commander Gold Star for a mere 30 POs??????? Why do we need a cmdr of this unit? The cost to the pension is what? Come on ENOUGH

9/26/2011 05:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lawrence Msall of the Civic Federation says the changing of pension benefits must change for current employees,,,,,,fuck you,your rich cocksucker, don't jack me off two years before I can retire....

9/26/2011 05:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As the old world loses control over the media, the truth will come out..

Case in point. Mexico.

“This will happen to all the Internet snitches.” the note read

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Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival

MEXICO CITY — Before the police or news reporters had even arrived at the underpass outside Veracruz where gunmen held up traffic and dumped 35 bodies at rush hour last week, Twitter was already buzzing with fear and valuable information.

“Avoid Plaza Las Américas,” several people wrote, giving the location.

“There are gunmen,” wrote others, adding, “they’re not soldiers or marines, their faces are masked.”

These witness accounts have become common in Mexico over the past year, especially in violent cities where the news media have been compromised by corruption or killings. But the flurry of Twitter messages about the bodies arrived at a telling moment — on the same day that Veracruz’s State Assembly made it a crime to use Twitter and other social networks to undermine public order.

[...]

...Two weeks ago, a man and a woman in their early 20s were found hanging from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, with a sign near their mangled bodies that read: “This will happen to all the Internet snitches.” A third person was found dead on Saturday with a sign declaring she was killed for social media postings.

[..]

Some government officials may figure out how to work with, or at least tolerate, social media. On Wednesday afternoon in Veracruz, the authorities said they had identified most of the 35 dumped bodies, which were discarded, seminude, near a mall popular with tourists. They said that 12 were women and that nearly all of the identified victims had criminal records, hinting that they may have been members of the Zetas gang, killed by rivals.

more >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/world/americas/mexico-turns-to-twitter-and-facebook-for-information-and-survival.html?_r=2

9/26/2011 06:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????

9/26/2011 01:14:00 PM
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It was posted on the blog last week and it's in your FOP book. You can always call the union, if you're so lazy that you need to be spoonfed.

9/26/2011 06:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT pam zekman sends health inspectors to check cubs and sox concession stands .
Where's the investigative reporter and health inspectors in the little village neighborhood , 100's of unlicensed , no running water , vendors taking $ and serving food all day long outside of schools .
Who is protecting the vendors ,no one operates open and norotious in chicago for free .
They are not mom and pop operations , many are dropped off.
no english , dinero rules , no police , health or revenue dept enforcement.

9/26/2011 03:40:00 PM
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I'll second that for Logan Square. A vendor on every corner.

9/26/2011 06:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many Gold Stars do we need?

9/26/2011 06:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
let Democrats run it.

9/26/2011 11:02:00 AM


In Illinois the Democrats and Republicans are all thieves. Look for the "Illinois Combine" in old John Kass columns.

9/26/2011 06:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh, dat's Right said...
Who was duh Gubernor who signed dis shill bill? Duh second cumming of Clarence Darrow himself, duh defender of Blago, duh great "Big Bill."

9/26/2011 03:33:00 PM


Big Jim Thompson who can still be seen strutting his largeness at various restaurants in the area.

9/26/2011 06:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is truly astounding is that this took 20 years to come to light! They should all be in jail! And the Daley's should be the queen bitches!

9/26/2011 06:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Does anyone know why the vending machines in the academy do not have licenses?

9/26/2011 06:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excerpt from inside cover of the book about Obama's presidency, "Gangster Government":

..provides the much-needed expose' of an administration that has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm politics to Washington, looking to reward its friends (the unions, federal workers, and other liberal interest groups) and punish its enemies (the private sector workers and taxpayers who foot the bill for Obama's massive expansion of the federal government).

Good book!

9/26/2011 06:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

E&R Towing = Jeremiah Joyce

Concessions at Navy Pier, the airports = Jeremiah Joyce

what else???

Jeremiah Joyce is like the head of the Irish Mob.

9/26/2011 06:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT pam zekman sends health inspectors to check cubs and sox concession stands .
Where's the investigative reporter and health inspectors in the little village neighborhood , 100's of unlicensed , no running water , vendors taking $ and serving food all day long outside of schools .
Who is protecting the vendors ,no one operates open and norotious in chicago for free .
They are not mom and pop operations , many are dropped off.
no english , dinero rules , no police , health or revenue dept enforcement.

9/26/2011 03:40:00 PM

Wow, again with the vendors? You've been bitching about them for years--get over it. No way to police them, as they'll just keep popping up. If someone is dumb enough to buy food from them, let 'em!

Would rather see them out working than doing burglaries or some shit.

9/26/2011 06:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you get what you vote for. I feel bad for you, but not that bad as this should have been expected.

9/26/2011 06:51:00 PM  
Anonymous O'Brien said...

Unfortunately this is an extremely accurate assessment of things, and extremely well put. What a shame.

9/26/2011 06:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Where's the investigative reporter and health inspectors in the Little Village neighborhood, 100's of unlicensed, no running water, vendors taking $ and serving food all day long outside of schools."

No human being is illegal!

"Who is protecting the vendors, no one operates open and notorious in Chicago for free..."

Who rents out those carts? You better not cheat the enforzador, either. He knows that 20 nickels make a dollar. Like all those bridal gown stores are a big mystery. Who do you think is right there anyplace there's good cash flow and a vast excess of utterly dispensable, replaceable, scared people who don't belong here anyway and won't make noise? Jeez, just look on the walls -- they paint it ten feet high for everyone to see.

"They are not mom and pop operations, many are dropped off."

Yup. This is not "picturesque" or "vibrant" anymore. You got shot-callers. Who just went down under RICO?

Same in 025 --

* on Grand, everything you can think of -- pink-and-blue-dustmops, elotes wagons, you name it -- and who knows what's under the load? Like you say, always by schools...

* more carts on city property in Riis Park...right by the kids on the soccer field, again...

* east side of Narragansett south of Grand, selling from own front yard. Take house number off, that's effective camouflage.

* whole fleet of green ice cream wagons coming out of shit building on Grand, former motorcycle gang clubhouse until it got raided. 100% illegal labor by the day.

* stoves and refrigerators shoved out onto sidewalk outside hole-in-wall store right by there, place is about 10' wide.

* same thing behind the discoteca on Grand that always has the food cart and mess in front of it -- more junk trucks, more old stoves and refrigerators dragged outside when the weather is good. Every "business" has two or three more operations on its back, like ticks.

* Oh -- don't get run over by a "PiCk MeTaL" truck while you're "investigative reporting." Again -- look behind the car wash on west side of Grand east of Oak Park -- six or seven rolling derelicts jammed behind it, as many as will fit, all piled high. Some kind of sindical, with name "Pucuato" painted across the windshields. Scrapyard with no license, it's just got rubber under it.

* Hey, ICE -- check out the "Glober Bakery" down by the Milwaukee Road tracks. Had to ask someone there the name, the gates are always locked tight and there is no sign on it. Get real. Big factory, you can smell it all the way north of Belmont when the wind is right. There will not be a cinnamon roll left in the city if they hit that place.

etc.

WTF. But this just grows while you chase the radio and hunch around looking for the latest shell casings. Backlog, first things first, but the whole joint is changing ownership in the meantime. 100,000 "bullshit calls" -- push em to the bottom but they still really add up in the aggregate.

Weight of sheer numbers is what's going on -- and 150 million more coming in by 2050.

It's intentional. All this is official, written policy. "Sanctuary City."

News flash --

This is not Mexico.

Sorry.


P.S. "Who knows what's under the load?" Remember years ago when they hired off the street by the day to pass out cigarette samples on street corners in the Loop? Ha. Guess what...of course that would never happen today.

9/26/2011 06:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thompson is a republican. What did he have to gain from the criminal goings on?

9/26/2011 06:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...now when I google "second city cop"the site does not come up. Somebody is toying with this insignificant blog???"

--9/26/2011 08:20:00 AM

You get 439,000 results -- with "The Chicagoist" web site at the very top, quoting SCC stuff. I can find everything but SCC itself!

Someone who knows more about manipulating search engines than I do might be able to help.

9/26/2011 07:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT pam zekman sends health inspectors to check cubs and sox concession stands .
Where's the investigative reporter and health inspectors in the little village neighborhood , 100's of unlicensed , no running water , vendors taking $ and serving food all day long outside of schools .
Who is protecting the vendors ,no one operates open and norotious in chicago for free .
They are not mom and pop operations , many are dropped off.
no english , dinero rules , no police , health or revenue dept enforcement.

9/26/2011 03:40:00 PM

Ok, so what do you propose they do for a living then? My hat goes off to these vendors. In my district (025th district) some of the best tamales are sold by street vendors. They get up early at 3 A.M. in the morning and make it fresh for the day. By 4:30 A.M. they are out on the streets. Even during winter season.

My grandfather who emigrated from Italy was a street vendor. Sometimes idiots like you forget your own roots. My hat goes out to anyone who busts their butt to earn money to support their family. Try selling tamles in the cold brutal Chicago winter at 4:30 in the morning!

9/26/2011 07:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????

9/26/2011 01:14:00 PM


That's not a secret.
Check your contract book.
It's all there for all to see.

9/26/2011 07:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????
--His no legal exp guy makes Captains pay. How nice. Keep paying your dues for Bullshit. just another clouted system

9/26/2011 07:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do you think that our taxpayers are so complacent. They are fed all these bullshit stories that are spoon fed to the media and everything is peachy. If we had 1 investigative reporter besides jovorsky from the reader in this town this bullshit pension shit where our elected officilas are writing their own ticket would have never happened. To those fakers out there who profess to be investigative reporters, "you sir or maam would not make a pimple on a police officers ass". Hire some police officers who are real investigators and you could blow the competition away and at the same time be curtailing the corruption that your own tax dollars are wasted on, but that might require some actual work.

9/26/2011 07:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I say let the protesters have their way with every asshole who attends the nato g8 summit.

9/26/2011 07:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello, Hello, Patrick Fitzgerald are you there, can you hear me now, I mean have you heard anything we have said? Don't want to rattle anyone's cage anymore. So who's the champion of the people now since you're sitting on the bench.

9/26/2011 07:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope every sonofabitch politician involved in this grand larcency drops dead of a painful, incurable disease.

Keep blaming the working man for this mess !

Fuck You rich daley !!!! You scumbag Mo-Fo !!!!!

9/26/2011 08:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. U.S. Attorney and personal (cover-up) friend of Ex Governor George Ryan Big J.O. Jim Thompson signed it into law one day before leaving office.
Stevie Wonder could see through this one.
He sent police officers to jail with less circumstantial evidence than that.
May you all rot in hell.

9/26/2011 08:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But I thought that Daley was such a great leader and good for business? If he was the CEO of a company, as he was for the city, and sold off all of the assets, gave away properties for one dollar, and set up the pensions for failure, would he have been retained?

But the University of Chicago makes him a senior fellow. What for? Being the longest lasting criminal in office?

If you have children who are good students, would you send them there to the U of C to learn from the morally bankrupt liberals or to Northwestern to watch live sex shows in class and learn how to free murderers?

This town is a cesspool. It really needs an enema.

9/26/2011 08:43:00 PM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

We wonder if the simple-minded Chicago electorate is still all in on declaring war on The Police at the urging of these rotten fucking assholes of the legacy criminal-political/media enterprise known as Daley Inc.?

You know...

"If the greedy coppers had given up pay raises and taken furlough days etc, the city wouldn't be nearly a billion in the hole."

TRANSLATION: Fixate on the coppers while we rob you yokels of $12 to $15 Billion.

We say again...

Nothing but bullshit, distraction and local media driven propaganda to turn the public against any and all cares and concerns of The Police to provide cover for the funky bastards who should be running on air after falling through the trap door of the gallows for driving this city, county and state into abject and utter ruin.

Out of all... The only one who has made an intentional choice to hold on to a shred of ethical behavior is The Policeman, but damn it to hell; he's ended up being made out to be the fucking enemy.

The high placed politicians had to stand up and swear an oath not too dissimilar to that sworn by Policemen...

We put more credence in a vividly diseased,loudly stinking, decaying alive whore washing her work panties in a puddle of run-off from a multiple fatality house fire than entertaining the usual verbal equivalent of violently projectile ass-spew over the waist-bands of career politicians/members of local media trying to preach to coppers or anybody else about morality and ethics.

Even a whore is capable of saying "That's enough."

We hope and pray that 2012 ushers in the election of a president who has a Policeman's keen hatred and peculiar malice toward these pricks and their ilk who made a conscious decision to ruin a thriving economic engine as far as livability and sustainability for their own selfish pleasures.

We will volunteer to help build the scaffold.

We have a hammer, a saw, a tape-measure and a bucket of 10 penny nails...

Viva Hate...

This mean-season and shit-talker's holiday The Police are enduring cannot last...

9/26/2011 09:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sure Shanks doesn't recall anything about it.

9/26/2011 09:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Announced today that Illinois will be over $8 BILLION in the hole by next June. After raisng the income tax on low income suckers like us. All of these pension deals should be removed and make these connected thieves pay back any money they stole from US! Where in the hell are the Feds? This is criminal!

9/26/2011 09:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daley's nephew Patrick Thompson seeks slating for Water Rec board

Posted by Greg H. at 9/26/2011 1:22 PM CDT

Mayor Richard M. Daley may have retired, but a close relative wants to get into the family business.

A source who was there this morning says that Patrick Daley Thompson, the former mayor's nephew, showed up at a Democratic Party pre-slating meeting this morning and announced that he's running for a seat on the Water Reclamation District of Metropolitan Chicago.

Read more: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/blogs?blogID=greg-hinz&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&uid=1daca073-2eab-468e-9f19-ec177090a35c&plckPostId=Blog%3a1daca073-2eab-468e-9f19-ec177090a35cPost%3a4a5b4b48-4521-4412-8315-1a99ba167169&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest#ixzz1Z7R6jMPX
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9/26/2011 10:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Chicago Federation of Labor should be placed under Federal Recievership. A full investigation of all negotiations and agreements ocurring under Gannons leadership should be begin immediately. This is bribery between Daley and top Labor leaders. Who are the 23 other Union leaders that are in line to recieve similar deals? Let's get a full count. Why is the Justice Department not acting on this information? Where are the investigative reporters in this town? This isn't even half the of the story. Corrupt Union leaders have been appeasing the city for far too long. A story like this provides answers as to why they fold like cheap lawn furniture in negotiations with the city.

9/26/2011 10:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Update

The question posted on Alderman O'Connor's Facebook page about filling the 100 police officer positions cut through attrition in the last 3 years in the 41st Ward has been DELETED by the alderman.

9/26/2011 10:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was looking at Dept Organizational chart. Why do we have two chiefs of patrol? EB and GW? Every other Bureau has a chief the Depty. Chiefs Unser them. And if they both Chiefs, why is EB barking all the orders?? Is GW just there until he retires? Or did he retire already?

9/26/2011 10:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On tonite's episode of the Playboy Club on Ch5, one of the storylines was a guy paying off old man Daley with a car for Sis, to get Daley's approval to run for State's Attorney.

9/26/2011 10:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ok, so what do you propose they do for a living then? My hat goes off to these vendors. In my district (025th district) some of the best tamales are sold by street vendors. They get up early at 3 A.M. in the morning and make it fresh for the day. By 4:30 A.M. they are out on the streets. Even during winter season.

My grandfather who emigrated from Italy was a street vendor. Sometimes idiots like you forget your own roots. My hat goes out to anyone who busts their butt to earn money to support their family. Try selling tamles in the cold brutal Chicago winter at 4:30 in the morning!

9/26/2011 07:11:00 PM

You must like paying taxes and fees while other people don't have too only because of their race? You are hamstrung by a bloated democratic bureaucracy at every turn to open a business, but a decree has been issued by said bureaucracy to remove any obstacles for certain people.

9/26/2011 10:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
How many Gold Stars do we need?

9/26/2011 06:12:00 PM


None

9/26/2011 10:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
A petition to save the Police Helicopter has been initiated at Rahm's website. Individuals can vote and comment on this idea at

www.chicagobudget.com

under Public safety

9/26/2011 12:21:00 PM

Why?

009 days

9/26/2011 04:39:00 PM

So he can hover over you as sleep in the hole.

9/26/2011 10:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Suntimes had a similar story about two years ago..


Biggest pension in city, courtesy of labor

Pension for ex-city steamroller operator isn't based on his city paychecks -- it's tied to his salary as a powerful union boss
Comments

September 14, 2009

http://jobs.suntimes.com/news/politics/1769029,CST-NWS-pension14.article

Story claims:

Dates back to 1957

Gannon defends his city pension deal.

"I'm probably not the only labor guy taking advantage of that state law,'' Gannon said.

He's right. A Chicago Sun-Times examination of the state's 17 largest government retirement plans found more than five dozen retired government workers whose pensions are based not on their public salaries but, instead, on what they were paid by labor unions, lobbying groups and other non-governmental organizations.

The practice goes back to at least 1957, when Illinois legislators passed a law allowing employees of the Illinois Municipal League -- a non-governmental agency that lobbies Illinois lawmakers on behalf of suburbs and cities -- to be part of the state's generous pension plan. Other laws expanded the practice.

Among those who've benefited:

...(it then goes on with all the six figure pensions and some of the people that benefited --see link above for full story)

SO as you can see it's a circle-jerk of money. Lobbyist <> Politicians.

9/26/2011 11:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reported in the newspapers that no one reads anymore.
No mention by the TV news.
Where is the outrage?
When these funds go belly up and there is no doubt they will the people responsible better find a good place to hide.

9/26/2011 11:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bill or no bill if its obvious corruption take away these labor leaders pension because of fraud

9/26/2011 11:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????
--His no legal exp guy makes Captains pay. How nice. Keep paying your dues for Bullshit. just another clouted system

9/26/2011 07:43:00 PM


Where is it written that in order to become president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 Chicago that you need to have legal experience.
All you have to be is a patrolman.
The president of the FOP for many years now has made captains pay.
Did you complain when Nolan or Donohue were getting that same pay grade?
Let it go buddy.
Let it go.

9/27/2011 12:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was looking at Dept Organizational chart. Why do we have two chiefs of patrol? EB and GW? Every other Bureau has a chief the Depty. Chiefs Unser them. And if they both Chiefs, why is EB barking all the orders?? Is GW just there until he retires? Or did he retire already?

9/26/2011 10:24:00 PM
=
Brown is leaving for Darien. Watch McGotalottaspainintodo claim he 'saved' a hundred fifty thousand for the police department by not filling the spot after he goes.

9/27/2011 12:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you have children who are good students, would you send them there to the U of C to learn from the morally bankrupt liberals or to Northwestern to watch live sex shows in class and learn how to free murderers?

This town is a cesspool. It really needs an enema.

9/26/2011 08:43:00 PM
=
Damned right I'd send my kids to Northwestern or U of C. Those are the names that'll get them through the doors of the big companies and the big law firms. You think I'd send them to Truman?

The difference is, my kids know how to say 'no, thanks' to a sex ed class (you DO know the students were advised of what was about to happen and told they were free to leave if they were at all uncomfortable with it, right?).

My kids know how to make an informed decision and they also know that college is a place to broaden their thought processes and form their OWN opinions. Just because you are exposed to a variety of views, ideas and opinions doesn't mean you have to adopt them for yourself.

9/27/2011 12:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Update

The question posted on Alderman O'Connor's Facebook page about filling the 100 police officer positions cut through attrition in the last 3 years in the 41st Ward has been DELETED by the alderman.

9/26/2011 10:21:00 PM

It's his facebook page, right? So, doesn't that mean he gets to control what's on it or not?

Or, are you saying you're grousing because he deleted YOUR question? You're not being real clear here.

9/27/2011 12:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And for all the dem bashers make sure you read the whole article. Because there are plenty of Republicans that helped ram this bill through.

9/26/2011 09:42:00 AM

Ever hear of the Tea Party? Establishment Republicans (RINO's)fear us more then the Democrats. Nov 2012 we take our country back to Freedom.

9/27/2011 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gas prices now headed down. Gasoline consumption has taken the biggest dive since they started keeping records. Why? EVERYBODY IS FUCKING BROKE! Millions out of work with no hope of ever finding another job. Families walking away from their homes because they can't pay the mortgage. And now we see these fat cat connected union bosses and politicians depleting our pension funds. These greedy bastards should be brought to justice. All this chicanery has been going on for years. Now that the state is broke the story comes out. This isn't just a Democrat heist. All these scumbag politicians are stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Go after these low life assholes and make them pay back every cent they stole. Jesus this is crazy!

9/27/2011 12:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????

9/26/2011 01:14:00 PM




put that on a t-shirt and wear it as a diaper.

and take your thumb out of your mouth.

9/27/2011 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do you think that our taxpayers are so complacent. They are fed all these bullshit stories that are spoon fed to the media and everything is peachy.

If we had 1 investigative reporter besides jovorsky from the reader in this town this bullshit pension shit where our elected officilas are writing their own ticket would have never happened.


9/26/2011 07:45:00 PM



Ben Joravsky.

9/27/2011 01:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thompson is a republican. What did he have to gain from the criminal goings on?

9/26/2011 06:58:00 PM



you can't possibly be this clueless.

9/27/2011 01:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you ! Elected officials my I have another one?
Welcome to HELLINOIS....

9/27/2011 05:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's his facebook page, right? So, doesn't that mean he gets to control what's on it or not?

Or, are you saying you're grousing because he deleted YOUR question? You're not being real clear here.

9/27/2011 12:38:00 AM



no, what he's saying is o'conner is a fucking punk. re-read the posted comment again, this time after pulling your head out of the alderman's ass.

9/27/2011 06:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????

9/26/2011 01:14:00 PM

####

STOP!

If you were a police officer in Chicago, then you would know how to find out what his salary is.

Go Away NOW!

9/27/2011 06:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sure enough, two days after the pension changes passed the Legislature — departing Gov. James Thompson signed it into law — the city's unions lined up to endorse Mayor Daley's re-election campaign. He would serve another 20 years with organized labor's support and acquiescence.

*********************************
20 years behind bars for all these slimy bastards !!!!!!!!

9/27/2011 07:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
A petition to save the Police Helicopter has been initiated at Rahm's website. Individuals can vote and comment on this idea at

www.chicagobudget.com

under Public safety/ Air lift Maggie & Shanks

9/26/2011 12:21:00 PM

9/27/2011 07:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I woild think the face book page initiated by an Alderman, would be intended to be an open forum for his constituents to ask questions that are relevant. Sort of. transparent democracy in action. Evidently not! "I don't like the question, The answer might embarass me." You can't ask the question. Sort of like, It's my ball, my game, I'm going home. Typical of an Alderman who thinks he is part of the Irish Gentry. I know , "Lets have wine and horseshoes in the park.... Officer could you arrest that brown individual with the beer over there."

9/27/2011 07:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re. Thompson being a republican - do you think that was the first "one hand washing the other" between Daley and Big Jim? Maybe Daley was keeping Chicago in line all those years while he was governor, dontchathink?

9/27/2011 07:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That fucker Daley burns me up! I hope he flyers his real soon and rots somewhere!

9/27/2011 09:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Police Command Structrue
We should have 3 Bureaus: Field Operations (primarily patrol), Investigations, Administration each with a Chief. There should be 3 Patrol Areas: North, South, Central each with a Deputy Chief. There should be a Deputy Chief in charge of dicks and one of Organized Crime. Anything else of command under that is a Cmdr. The district cmdr. should have 3 capts and 3 Lts one for each watch and the tact Lt. We should build up the number of sgts, dicks and POs with the amount we could save by trimming the top.

9/27/2011 09:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My grandfather who emigrated from Italy was a street vendor. Sometimes idiots like you forget your own roots. My hat goes out to anyone who busts their butt to earn money to support their family. Try selling tamles in the cold brutal Chicago winter at 4:30 in the morning!

9/26/2011 07:11:00 PM


It is probably safe to say your grandfather played by the rules to enter this country. The martyrs you speak so highly of broke the law entering this country, and are stealing our tax dollars as they sit on the corner selling corn during those cold Chicago winters.

What a tool you are. Get your head out of your ass. They are dragging this country down, by design of the socialists in charge.

9/27/2011 11:18:00 AM  
Blogger john said...

One thing that hurts the pension fund are the former officers who are on disability. Instead of the city paying for their disability , the pension is. If someone has a duty disability from the job, the city should be accountable not the pension fund.


old retired guy

9/27/2011 11:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gas prices now headed down. Gasoline consumption has taken the biggest dive since they started keeping records. Why? EVERYBODY IS FUCKING BROKE! Millions out of work with no hope of ever finding another job. Families walking away from their homes because they can't pay the mortgage. And now we see these fat cat connected union bosses and politicians depleting our pension funds. These greedy bastards should be brought to justice. All this chicanery has been going on for years. Now that the state is broke the story comes out. This isn't just a Democrat heist. All these scumbag politicians are stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Go after these low life assholes and make them pay back every cent they stole. Jesus this is crazy!

9/27/2011 12:47:00 AM

i agree. the economy is exhibiting some odd patterns. not sure what to make of it. real estate continues to decline. I've noticed that heroin dime bags continue to increase in weight. what used to measure out to .1 to .2 grams now is regularly weighing in at .3 to .5 per dime bag. i have been making drug arrests for many years and haven't seen as many drug "give aways" as i'm seeing these days since maybe 2004. on the westside these events are happening daily. Maybe demand is down with the widespread impoverishment of the U.S. It is truly frightening times. I cant imagine we will get much during our next contract negotiations. city will scream broke and public already hates us just for having a decent job and a pension. Stay safe and stay employed . dont give the city any reason to fire your ass. i've also noticed an increase in number of urine tests for drugs the city is requesting. the realist/cynic in me suspects emmanual and gmac would love to fire older officers just cause their salaries and heath care costs are higher. wouldn't put anything past 9.5. remember this is the same slick POS who was a head of FREDDY/FANNIE and allowed the mortgage/banking crisis to happen. He now is trying to turn the public against teachers,cops, and firefighters by suggesting that we are greedy and coddled. only a POS would try to make us take the hit for a crisis he is partly responsible for creating. be careful out there. it is a dangerous city right now both physically and politically.

9/27/2011 01:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"OK, so what do you propose they do for a living then?"

Not my problem.

The illegal immigrants are not the least bit worried about me, about what they might be doing to my job, my family, my country, my culture.

The term reconquista -- re-conquest -- which they use does not endear. That's a little more serious than a few tamales.

Like Germany -- which has its own economic problems -- now being expected to bail out Greece, we simply can't take the whole world onto our shoulders. No matter what one's opinion may be, the peanut butter jar always has a bottom.

"They get up early at 3 A.M. in the morning and make it fresh for the day. By 4:30 A.M. they are out on the streets. Even during winter season."

Yeah, I know those winter 3 AMs. My father was sitting up all night nursing a miserable old boiler that the landlord was too cheap to replace.

In the morning, the sidewalks had to be shoveled and scraped and salted -- and the telephone began to ring, people wanting things fixed. By 4:30 PM it was getting dark again and that heat had better be coming up...

Lots of people "work hard."

"Try selling tamales in the cold brutal Chicago winter at 4:30 in the morning!"

You'd think Mexico City would have easier winters -- I know it has about 17 million more potential customers.

What's the draw? It must be the free food and medical here so they can keep the cash money they take out of the local economy (once the organized criminals get their cut) and wire-transfer it across the border.

"Sanctuary City."

God bless. Stay safe.

9/27/2011 04:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Police Command Structrue
We should have 3 Bureaus: Field Operations (primarily patrol), Investigations, Administration each with a Chief. There should be 3 Patrol Areas: North, South, Central each with a Deputy Chief. There should be a Deputy Chief in charge of dicks and one of Organized Crime. Anything else of command under that is a Cmdr. The district cmdr. should have 3 capts and 3 Lts one for each watch and the tact Lt. We should build up the number of sgts, dicks and POs with the amount we could save by trimming the top.

9/27/2011 09:54:00 AM


Yeah, keep on going with that shit. Take a trip to NYC and take a look at NYPD for a look at a professional police department. Chicago is a fucking joke. Retirement cannot come soon enough. The only unit I care about is the best unit on the CPD: RET

9/27/2011 04:49:00 PM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

...and would someone PLEASE bound & gag that fucking idiot from the Chicago Civic Federation, Lawrence Msall?

This fool is another pantyless cheerleader for shortshanks & 9.5's agenda of revenge against The Police.

We note some more shit-talk from him about how The Police are responsible for the city being in a financial hole...

It's raining assholes becuase these muthafuckahs just fall from the fuckin' sky talking the same silly shit.

They'll never own up to their buddies destroying this city...

Bunch of watercress sandwich nibbling, vespa scooter with a side-car riding, culotte, birkenstock & burlap drawers wearing matching raspberry beret, ankle sock & scarf having nitwits!

Fuck these fools... They're all multi-millionaires with not a damned thing in common with the captive tax-payer.

Head for deep water, sew their dumb asses up into a sail weighted with a few cannon-balls then kick the whole squirming, crying, shitting mess overboard, pirate style...

9/27/2011 05:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alderman Mary Ann O'Connor, not Patrick O'COnnor...try to follow along

9/27/2011 06:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"OK, so what do you propose they do for a living then?"


how about....get the fuck out! for starters...

9/27/2011 07:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we get a US Attorney here. They are the only ones that can investigate these bastard politicians. The only difference between them and the criminals we arrest every day is these assholes passed laws limiting the agencies that can investigate them. So while we're busy putting the common black and hispanic criminal in jail the white man is above the law because he has the power to limit the number of agencies that can investigate him. We're locking up people for theft of candy bars while our elected officials are stealing gold bars. Hello Jessie, Al and all you other white haters where are you now. Haven't heard you lately.

9/27/2011 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

UN-f*ckinbelievable
they should all be in prison.

9/27/2011 10:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

end gold braid pensions now

9/27/2011 10:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????
--His no legal exp guy makes Captains pay. How nice. Keep paying your dues for Bullshit. just another clouted system

9/26/2011 07:43:00 PM


Where is it written that in order to become president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 Chicago that you need to have legal experience.
All you have to be is a patrolman.
The president of the FOP for many years now has made captains pay.
Did you complain when Nolan or Donohue were getting that same pay grade?
Let it go buddy.
Let it go.

9/27/2011 12:09:00 AM

D-8 pay, my man. Look it up. Much better than a captain's pay, by far.

So you let it go, buddy.

Stroke.

9/27/2011 10:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we get a US Attorney here. They are the only ones that can investigate these bastard politicians. The only difference between them and the criminals we arrest every day is these assholes passed laws limiting the agencies that can investigate them. So while we're busy putting the common black and hispanic criminal in jail the white man is above the law because he has the power to limit the number of agencies that can investigate him. We're locking up people for theft of candy bars while our elected officials are stealing gold bars. Hello Jessie, Al and all you other white haters where are you now. Haven't heard you lately.

9/27/2011 09:16:00 PM

You mean all the white politicians like Carothers and Jones? Oh, that's right. They're black. How about Gutierrez? Oh, that's right. He's Hispanic. How about Obama? All of the politicians are thieving shits, not just the white ones.

9/28/2011 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
What is FOP President Mike Shields salary? Anyone anyone?????
--His no legal exp guy makes Captains pay. How nice. Keep paying your dues for Bullshit. just another clouted system

9/26/2011 07:43:00 PM


Where is it written that in order to become president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 Chicago that you need to have legal experience.
All you have to be is a patrolman.
The president of the FOP for many years now has made captains pay.
Did you complain when Nolan or Donohue were getting that same pay grade?
Let it go buddy.
Let it go.

9/27/2011 12:09:00 AM

D-8 pay, my man. Look it up. Much better than a captain's pay, by far.

So you let it go, buddy.

Stroke.

9/27/2011 10:46:00 PM


Aw fuck you both, all I make is crummy D1 pay, now that ain't right I tell you! 28 years at an entry level position.

9/28/2011 07:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Can we get a US Attorney here. They are the only ones that can investigate these bastard politicians. The only difference between them and the criminals we arrest every day is these assholes passed laws limiting the agencies that can investigate them. So while we're busy putting the common black and hispanic criminal in jail the white man is above the law because he has the power to limit the number of agencies that can investigate him. We're locking up people for theft of candy bars while our elected officials are stealing gold bars. Hello Jessie, Al and all you other white haters where are you now. Haven't heard you lately.

9/27/2011 09:16:00 PM

You mean all the white politicians like Carothers and Jones? Oh, that's right. They're black. How about Gutierrez? Oh, that's right. He's Hispanic. How about Obama? All of the politicians are thieving shits, not just the white ones.

9/28/2011 05:47:00 AM



Remember, Big Jim Thompson was once a US Attorney here. He has been collecting his favors ever since and parachuted that US Attorney position into the governor's office.

And then, on near his last day as governor, Thompson signed that pension legislation allowing Daley to pay off labor leaders with our pension money to obtain labor peace and to get Daley re-elected 5 times.

9/28/2011 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

police should stick together and change the salary of union officials they should make thier rank and a stipend .

9/28/2011 01:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"the economy is exhibiting some odd patterns. not sure what to make of it. real estate continues to decline. I've noticed that heroin dime bags continue to increase in weight. what used to measure out to .1 to .2 grams now is regularly weighing in at .3 to .5 per dime bag. i have been making drug arrests for many years and haven't seen as many drug "give aways" as i'm seeing these days since maybe 2004."

--9/27/2011 01:50:00 PM

Yow.

No dealer, no banker ever did anyone a favor. The credit companies are also sending out credit cards -- with vicious fees and terms you would not believe -- 36% interest and more -- but with high credit limits. These are going out to hook in the most desperate and the poorest of the poor.

These motherf__ers probably have a good supply, and are giving out more to get the hook in deeper, to create a REAL bad jones that will have their customers sniffling and crying and twitching around, robbing and stealing twice as hard when the supply is tightened back up again and the quantity halves and the price doubles.

"Adjustable-rate habit." Look out.

Like in the jailhouse, payback on that "borrowed" cigarette is always two-for-one...

9/28/2011 04:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
police should stick together and change the salary of union officials they should make thier rank and a stipend .

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hey dipshit, ever think they get paid what they do because they don't get any overtime, paid for holidays, etc?

I'd say it's a safe bet the average guy up there works a lot more hours than you or I do.

9/28/2011 09:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those street vendors on 26th street are not independent business people. They work for others who own the carts and have the clout. The same goes for the unlicensed ice cream trucks that run out of the garage on Pulaski. Don't be a fool into thinking that these are just some person who scrapped together a few bucks for a cart. Granted, they work hard, but they are really salaried. I went through this thing a few years back.You can write them a citation, but they do not carry any ID, so you would have to arrest them and have someone haul their cart away. Not easy to do. Some have vendors license, but you cannot sell fresh cut food or cooked food on the street out of a cart.

10/05/2011 03:40:00 PM  

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