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01-20-2009, 12:37 PM
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You guys aren't talking about the big Ford plant, are you? because that is naturally in Ford Heights and not Chicago Heights.
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01-20-2009, 01:46 PM
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Flower of love
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Nope. The Ford plant is still Chicago Heights. Ford Heights starts on the other side of it.
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01-20-2009, 08:02 PM
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Hi, At1WithNature. Yes, I was talking about the Ford Plant. Come to think of it, that is not in Chicago Heights. Hearsay (which shouldn't really be belived) dictates that the Ford plant is in Chicago Heights. This is why East Chicago Heights is known as Ford Heights. Duh!!!!
There seems to be a contradiction since the poster above me says that the Ford Plant is in Chicago Heights. Confusing because of the boundaries.
I also want to change the subject to something more fun. Because of changing times, I used to read Home Guide and Home Guide Plus to look at the many historic homes advertised. I do not know if those two magazines are still in publication. There are town profiles in Home Guide and Home Guide Plus that give an brief history of towns like Blue Island, Harvey, Oak Lawn, and Chicago Heights.
Also, anyone ever research digitalpast.com for fun? There are some beautiful postcards and pictures of these suburban towns from the early 1900s. A few are older than that. Try it sometime.
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01-20-2009, 08:43 PM
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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The real answer is the plant buildings are in both Chicago Heights and Ford Heights.
Ford Motor Co: Chicago Stamping Plant - 1000 E Lincoln Hwy, Ford Heights, IL - (708) 757-5700
Ford Motor Company: Plant Engineering - Chicago Heights, IL - (708) 756-6588
More info:
"Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,456 at the 2000 census.
The village adopted its current name in 1987. Prior to that point, it was known as East Chicago Heights."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Heights,_Illinois |
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02-09-2009, 11:10 PM
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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02-10-2009, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by At1WithNature
Chicago Heights, Harvey, Cal City, etc. are exactly why white flight occurs. People are afraid that their towns will end up as drug infested, morally handicapped, disgusting cess pools which are corrupted to the bone by local law enforcement and so-called mayors.
For example, this article is less than 1 month old:
FBI: Police officers were muscle for 'drug dealers' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime
you have the worst of the worst chicago has to offer moving from projects to the ghettos of the burbs. don't fool yourself, corners in harvey and the heights make more money from crack than A LOT of corners on the south and west sides of chicago and of course these dope holes are run by gangs and guns. those people, who are ghetto ( ghetto meaning not caring about education or crime), slowly move through the southern suburbs like the black plague moved through Europe...hopefully, towns like tinley park and matteson can create a buffer zone so the filth doesn't spread into Will County from that point of enterance.
But there is no hope for Chicago Heights. Their police force is on the GD's, Latin King's, and 4CH's payroll. That town is long gone...if it wasn't for Marion Catholic, the entire town of some 30,000 odd people would be ghetto. |
Have you ever walked in Harvey or Chicago Heights. I have to disagree, Harvey drug crime is not as bad as the notorious south and westside hoods.
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02-10-2009, 02:18 PM
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02-14-2009, 11:07 PM
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I was born and raised on wentworth in the Heights. It was always crooked and had the worst racist cops money could buy. The mob introduced drugs into the area in the early 80`s enforced by the police dept. I lost many friends to either drugs, jail or death. I no longer live there and the last time I visited it looked as if the entire neighborhood had been leveled buy a very large bomb. If you wonder who still runs the Heights take a look at the Chicago Heights website and have a look at the greasy young mayor. My only wish is that before I die I get to see the majority of the police dept. indicted and jailed as they should have been years ago.
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02-15-2009, 12:27 AM
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I drove through the Heights for the first time tonight going to some sh#$y town in Indiana for a family get together.
Man, what a dump the Heights and surrounding areas have become (I am familiar with Matteson, Homewood, Flossmoor, etc). I grew up on the South Side and had no clue the Hood went so far South. Unreal and very depressing - why can't low income people at least try to keep their homes and neighborhoods in good shape? Do they not care about their kids? I do not understand.
I grew up with nothing and we still kept up our yard and home even though we were pis# poor. We tried to landscape, keep the neighborhood nice - but wtf happened between I-57 and Indiana along the Lincoln Highway???
It is a mess and years ago was not wealthy but was at least a decent area. Just sad.
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03-08-2009, 12:11 AM
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still crooked
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Originally Posted by bluedog100
I was born and raised on wentworth in the Heights. It was always crooked and had the worst racist cops money could buy. The mob introduced drugs into the area in the early 80`s enforced by the police dept. I lost many friends to either drugs, jail or death. I no longer live there and the last time I visited it looked as if the entire neighborhood had been leveled buy a very large bomb. If you wonder who still runs the Heights take a look at the Chicago Heights website and have a look at the greasy young mayor. My only wish is that before I die I get to see the majority of the police dept. indicted and jailed as they should have been years ago.
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Amen!
And the City is still corrupt. But the Greasy young mayor has been swindled into the State Legislature. Check this recent article out.
Dems object to Deluca Appointment
Some Dems object to potential DeLuca appointment :: The SouthtownStar :: News
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Faux Democrat Anthony Deluca appointed State Rep
Turning Left
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