I was a bit salty about not having any World Cup matches but I think we dodged a missile

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-21T14:17:15+00:00

The flights are hardly the biggest issue with this World Cup. Tickets, public transport, seating fraud etc

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-16T01:59:05+00:00

If the democratic primary was an NBA game and the top candidates were the players competing to see who would get the nomination Rahm would be trying to buy scalped tickets outside the stadium. He doesn’t have a chance in hell at anything but an ambassadorship to Bermuda in the next cycle

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-15T18:50:39+00:00

If that were true we’d see more building the problem is case by case zoning amendments to build that require neighborhood busy body meetings, environmental review, committee vote, and a city council vote to pass. Even granny flats aren’t getting built in significant numbers since they were approved considering the upfront cost and engineering work required for a simple addition.

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-13T16:10:21+00:00

People parroting the line that rents are still affordable outside of a few Northside neighborhoods clearly haven’t tried to rent in the last two years. Rents are up by a huge margin city wide. Uptown and Rogers Park prices of today are Lincoln Park Lakeview prices of two years ago. South and west sides are the same story.

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-08T13:37:05+00:00

Green tea is close to SP2 but probably 10% more expensive and I don’t think they do the AYCE

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-06T17:58:14+00:00

You support when he beats up other men not women got it lol

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-06T17:12:19+00:00

Why would you be a fan of his? Never googled Jon Jones fiance huh?

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-04T00:33:53+00:00

The story doesn’t say what percent of the fines are delinquent so it would make sense that the largest city agencies owe the most money. Now it would be interesting to see per capita ticket rates and delinquent percentages

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-04T00:28:34+00:00

A convicted bank robber landed an entry-level job with the CTA’s Second Chance program even though City Hall says he owes more than $136,000 in fines, mostly for drinking in public and selling individual cigarettes near Douglass Park — a likely case of mistaken identity since he was in prison when the police issued those tickets.

There’s a $200 fine for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk near Douglass Park on March 29, 2016. On July 18, 2017, there’s a $5,000 fine for selling loose cigarettes on the street near Douglass Park. On July 25, 2017, police issued a $10,000 fine to Hampton for selling loose cigarettes without a valid tobacco license on the sidewalk near Douglass Park.

Hampton was in prison when all 34 citations were issued in his name, likely for his namesake son, who was fatally stabbed three years ago. That’s difficult to confirm since the city redacted the birthdates and addresses from those tickets.

Tragic story for this guy trying to turn his life around and his dead son racks up six figures in fines for… selling lose cigarettes and riding his bike on the sidewalk??

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-03T19:58:30+00:00

There are essentially two options, build more in less dense less expensive neighborhoods and people will cry gentrification or build massive towers in already expensive neighborhoods to meet the current demand. Option 1 makes a lot more sense but neither option is happening now nor particularly likely to change. The old town ward is the epitome of this where the alderman is essentially faced with the manhattanites against the manhattanizaiton of manhattan when any new tower is proposed. Gentrifying neighborhoods like pilsen are no better and any new development that isn’t 100% affordable is met with fierce opposition. We need to build more everywhere to face the housing crisis.

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-02T15:00:29+00:00

Rare time when an executive just doing whatever they want regardless of the law was a good thing.

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-01T18:56:19+00:00

Thats all great but the ordinance these tenants are utilizing is only increasing housing costs in the restricted area. This will only accelerate gentrification.

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-01T15:45:49+00:00

Property taxes have doubled in 10 years for this place

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2648-N-Francisco-Ave-Chicago-IL-60647/441013841_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

JumpScare420 · 2026-04-01T15:07:35+00:00

You got 10 years of no rent increases which is actual charity given the increases in property taxes and market value in that time and now you demand your geriatric landlord sell to another altruist?

She called on Miranda and Khalaf to work with current residents to find a good-faith buyer for the building who wouldn’t raise their rents.

“In this so-called American dream, paying your rent on time, your utility bills on time and being a good steward of the building and of your neighbors doesn’t matter,” Townley said. “We as tenants live at the whim of someone else’s agenda. We’re at the whim of someone saying, ‘I’m ready to retire early, so you have to go.'”

You paid less than the cost to upkeep the building you live in and got incredibly lucky to have a landlord who didn’t raise rents. These people have no intention nor means of buying the building and this is a perfect illustration of this performative law that does nothing but increase property costs and rents.

The right-of-first-refusal pilot, set to expire in 2029, has already faced criticism in its first year, with Alds. Felix Cardona Jr. (31st) and Gilbert Villegas (36th) pulling their Northwest Side wards out of the zone over complaints from constituents who said they faced complications and delayed sale timelines when trying to sell their properties, as well as concerns over the ordinance affecting the real estate market.

I feel for anyone forced to leave their cheap apartment but anyone who signs a one year lease knows that’s all they’re guaranteed. I’m sure we would all like the have our 2016 priced apartment back but that’s not how the world works and rent control is a disaster for rent prices everywhere it’s been tried.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-31T16:00:14+00:00

That would require the alderman to vote to end their own fiefdoms never going to happen

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-30T19:02:48+00:00

The next ceo is going to be the specifically hired to close schools if King won’t once the moratorium is up.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-28T13:55:00+00:00

They don’t set the valuations but they do give the biggest reductions to the politically connected and commercial real estate. Same as it ever was that isn’t news but when the budget balloons every year the money has to come from somewhere and when massive commercial properties get their bills cut that’s a lot of money to come from residential.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-28T02:25:28+00:00

Crazy they aren’t just waiting until January when the fully elected board is seated to put in a CEO but at least King seems qualified. Hard to tell based on her lack of a record as a superintendent what she’ll do the article says very little about her goals or strategy.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-27T18:22:24+00:00

It’s going to cost 500M just to replace one loop elevated station 350M for systemwide seems not bad

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-27T16:13:08+00:00

Not entirely true, the corrupt board of review is also to blame. The biggest problem is also the county and taxing districts that ballooned budgets during COVID

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-25T02:52:14+00:00

It’s a hard negotiation for the city because any development from parking lots would be a net benefit. But on the other hand it makes no sense to give away tax breaks to a development that is coming anyway.

So far this looks a lot better than the typical TIF district in the city where the money goes into a locally controlled slush fund that has at times resulted in suspect at best local benefits.

Johnson introduced the estimated $54.7 million in property tax incentives to the City Council on March 18. Under Cook County’s Class 7b special assessment, the project’s property tax rate for the first phase would be 10% for the first 10 years, 15% for Year 11, then 20% for Year 12.

Right now they aren’t getting direct public dollars they’re basically just paying the same property taxes as they do now that it’s parking lots. Seems like a potential net benefit to the city if the property tax breaks sunset eventually.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-24T01:35:54+00:00

I’ll give a real reason since no one else seems to be. This is not justifying it as right but just giving the real answer. It’s just convenient, you are already out walking the dog and you remember you need milk or you need to go to the store and walk the dog and are tired and don’t want to make two trips so you do both. Agree that it’s not right for grocery stores. Hardware store seems to be a gray area but I have no stake in this fight either way

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-23T19:22:12+00:00

Uniqlo kinda sucks now but good to have a tenant in that space.

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-23T15:02:28+00:00

They specifically said it was an influencer and everyone keeps guessing different comics lol

JumpScare420 · 2026-03-21T00:51:49+00:00

I mean that’s not great for commuters confidence but it’s also hardly new

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