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I'm a South Sider by birth, born and raised and lived there for years - this is utter destruction of Jackson Park and it breaks my heart.
But nobody is being moved from their homes.
Change happens. Seems like the project is stalling money-wise but with Biden in office and so forth that will probably get the money flowing a little better at this point.
Normally I say leave it up to the local citizens but heck, it's Chicago and the leadership is going to do what they're going to do regardless. That likely means shoving the poorer folk further out and upscaling the area like they did with Cabrini Green a million years ago.
At least it could be a pretty good tourist attraction, as long as they keep muggings etc. to a minimum which they can....but that requires um....classic Chicago policing which is no longer en vouge.
Change happens. Seems like the project is stalling money-wise but with Biden in office and so forth that will probably get the money flowing a little better at this point.
Normally I say leave it up to the local citizens but heck, it's Chicago and the leadership is going to do what they're going to do regardless. That likely means shoving the poorer folk further out and upscaling the area like they did with Cabrini Green a million years ago.
Biden has nothing to do with it.
There has been a large coalition of local residents who have been fighting this for years.
You can't compare Cabrini Green to this area at all.
At least it could be a pretty good tourist attraction, as long as they keep muggings etc. to a minimum which they can....but that requires um....classic Chicago policing which is no longer en vouge.
I just saw this part ... lol. CPD is pretty much live and let live at this point. Or live and let shoot.
This project bothers the hell out of me. It's so personal to me I shouldn't even comment on it. Ugh.
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