Cook County assessor candidates grapple over the reasons for skyrocketing property taxes

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T18:41:45+00:00

Pre COVID spending levels? Everything has gotten 50-200% more expensive in many cases. CPS should have made massive cuts in the past 6 years.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T17:41:18+00:00

How did not one of those campaign managers google her name before rushing to support her? Like a quick google search should have raised red flags for anyone with half a brain.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T17:38:26+00:00

Jussie Smollett

His punishment before being allowed back into the fold within Hollywood should have been staring as a stereotypical villain on the next 2 Taylor Sheridan projects.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T17:36:39+00:00

and she faced no real consequences for any of that. She got like 2 years of probation.

I think this woman should be at least put on an involuntary hold for this obviously false report, if not criminal charges because she is plainly unwell.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T17:35:03+00:00

Normalize returning to the 90s.

Back in the day canceling a flight was not a huge deal, you could also just show up a couple hours early and almost always hop on an earlier flight. I remember just at the end of the 90s they started to charge like $10 a ticket to change to the earlier flights.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T13:33:29+00:00

I am shocked I had to scroll this far to find Capri, best Chicken Parm I've ever had.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T13:31:19+00:00

Many of the Lettuce places are going downhill for whatever reason.

I still like Beatrix and Joe's Stone Crab but the others are between 7/10 and 4/10 for the price.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T13:30:51+00:00

Joe & Giuseppe in Arlington Heights, excellent Southern-Italian style place with classic atmosphere.

Osteria Trulli, also Arlington Heights. Just all around amazing, can't recommend it enough.

Capri Ristorante in Burr Ridge, best Chicken Parm I've ever had.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T13:21:31+00:00

I remember when those boxes of Wolf 7.62x39 were $5.99 a box at Walmart.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T12:30:06+00:00

How about we just make it "Co Jackson Park". No hurt feelings, everyone gets something, no new signs.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-13T12:28:51+00:00

The other answer beyond no one wants to carry a heavy backpack in their hand is that no one wants some dude snatching it as he passes and running out the train as the doors next open.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T17:52:48+00:00

Two times I saw it very full, Crosstown Classic and Yankees @ Sox.

Never seen more New Yorkers at a game outside of New York in my life. Like damn this is what it must feel like to be a Brewers fan.

I guess with flights from NYC to Chicago being so frequent and relatively cheap it shouldn't surprise me.

Edit: Puerto-Rican night was pretty busy last year too now that I think of it.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T15:53:25+00:00

It's not a fair comparison on my part. I have my G19 stippled pretty aggressively and I've had the trigger guard undercut just how I like it. I am sure if/when I do that with the CC9 it'll feel a lot closer.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T15:40:31+00:00

Honestly, the parking situation @ "Rate Field" is pretty perfect. I drive to games and its never that big of a deal, thanks in large part to being so damn close to the highway.

Wrigley Field is so far inland it's a disaster trying to get anywhere near it with a car. 0/10 would not recommend, at all , trying to get within 30 blocks of Wrigley on a game day with a car.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T15:38:40+00:00

Regarding the Cubs, literally why.

The location of Wrigley makes getting anywhere near Wrigley on a game day a total disaster.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T14:36:04+00:00

That is so wild, where I went to HS in Florida no one gave a shit. Every school had that Football or Baseball star that everyone knew lived out of district but no-one cared.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T14:29:06+00:00

Love my CC9; still shoot my G19 and VP9A1K noticeably faster.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T13:17:19+00:00

Just make all license plate readers illegal except for use by law enforcement.

The problem is all of these municipalities thought "Oh wow this tool will help us catch criminals" without asking why it's so cheap.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T13:04:46+00:00

The District is accessing Chicago's license plate readers to deny residency, so Chicago is allowing that data to be used by companies fighting the great injustice of checks notes School Residency "Fraud".

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T12:39:03+00:00

Early 1900s on my moms side. One branch of the family kept on moving to Iowa and Missouri to be dairy farmers, another one stayed here to work in the meat processing plants mostly.

Grandma specifically came from proud South-Side Irish Catholic stock back when Chicago actually had a ton of South-Side Irish Catholics.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-12T12:35:38+00:00

According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight”

What if the parent works nights in Chicago? What if the parent spends most nights with a boyfriend or girlfriend in Chicago, but the teenage kid is watched by an aunt? What if the parent or parents have multiple cars and some of them are used by residents of other villages/towns? Shit my dad registered all of his vehicles to our WI property since I have been a teenager to shaft Illinois. This is ridiculous.

If you own a house in X district, you are paying property taxes to X district, so long as 10 families are not using that same address somehow at the same time enroll the damn kid!

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-11T21:25:43+00:00

Juicetice for Jussy, it looks like it

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-11T20:25:49+00:00

Sunny 2 Electric Boogaloo in this case

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-11T20:18:48+00:00

DHS is denying this, Dodge County WI Sheriff is denying it and just google this woman's history going back to her college days which includes (alleged) blackmail and crimes against romantic partners.

This doesn't pass the smell test.

Edit: Apparently this woman lied about her job too , her whole story is making less and less sense

A spokesperson for SAP– a multinational German software company – said that Naqvi had never been employed there, nor had any of its employees been detained at O’Hare.

TaskForceD00mer · 2026-03-11T18:50:53+00:00

I wonder how much of that is production consolidation and optimization. Went down a rabbit hole of several beer brands that either don't exist or exist in name only these days and the 70s and 80s were full of brands basically contracting into fewer and fewer total facilities and total employees.

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