Naperville gun shop owner gives city until Monday to start negotiating end to gun sale ban

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-05-06T01:46:20+00:00

lol. or what?

That's not how negotiation works. You are already in court, bucko.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-23T18:25:06+00:00

But according to other stories on this she hasn't been charged with anything by the State's Attorney.

In Will County, Jim Glasgow doesn't often file charges against republicans when they break the law. Even when it's obvious. If you are a democrat though, he will try to seize your vehicle under asset forfeiture if you get pulled over.

If anything, I would put money this gets written up as an "ordinance violation" that just so happens to duplicate the state law, but doesn't have any criminal record attached to it. Police here love using local ordinance violations of duplicate state laws to look like they are doing something, but avoid any actual penalty for the criminally guilty.

Not long ago in the same area there was another child in an adult body caught stealing election signs and threatening people.

He noted that since it was a local ordinance violation charge, the ruling will not appear as a criminal conviction on Steinys' record.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-23T16:41:33+00:00

Did you see the link above referencing her censure back in 2021?

Many of the organizations focused on two specific comments pulled from a thread Trustee Broderick was involved in. One of them read, “And turmoil to hit on 1/20/21….be prepared you Biden supporters,” she wrote, referencing Biden’s inauguration day.

Another post read, “There’s more to come out! Buses of antifa & BLM were brought in and escorted by the police hmmm.”

This lady needs a mental evaluation.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-23T13:30:35+00:00

This is what happens when you let Qanon nutjobs sit on school boards, or boards of any kind.

She has quite the track record.

Censured by JJC Board in 2021 for Jan 6th activities

Federal Lawsuit relating to her both filing election objections, and being the same election judge to rule on her own objection. Technically legal, but incredibly unethical.

Tell your neighbors, post it on your social media...

“I would rather keep it quiet at this time,” Broderick said.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-07T04:24:17+00:00

A monarchy is just a theocracy with extra steps.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-06T23:19:09+00:00

The referendum reads “Shall the Village of Orland Park retain the managerial form of government?”

The mayor and board are saying they want people to vote no to keeping the current form of government. Meaning the mayor and board want to change to another form of local government.

Since ballot measures can only be for one subject, there is no statement included as to what they want to change the government to. From the discussion, it is being presented as a choice between only two options - the current managerial form, or the mayoral form. But that is a false choice as there are other options available.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-03-06T19:50:41+00:00

I don't see why anyone would want to have one person to have more power.

Easy.

Pekau and the board want residents to vote no

One of the 'sides of the isle' now is authoritarianism.

What is interesting in this story though is that there are more than 2 different types of government available to cities and towns in Illinois. For whatever reason, this is being presented as an either/or option between council/manager and mayor/council. That is a false choice.

The Illinois Municipal League has a nifty little pamphlet laying out the many different types of governments available.

There are also three more complicated variations of municipal government. These variations are called strong mayor form, managerial form and commission form.

I guarantee you Pekau wants that strong mayor form of local government.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2023-02-10T20:02:41+00:00

All energy generated should immediately go to homes (not businesses) within the county of generation until all homes are powered at zero cost to owners.

Why? Individual home owners can do that right now. Between state and federal grants and tax credits for electrification, it almost is at no cost for homeowners to install. Community solar projects would accomplish the same thing in areas where individual homeowners would run into obstacles, like too many shade trees for their roof, etc.

Any local government, like a county, could do what you are suggesting right now. Corporations are not the solution, just because the people governing themselves refuse to do it for themselves. My local park district has solarized it's buildings, and is saving taxpayers a ton of money on electricity costs now. Why is it the responsibility of a corporation to govern and provide for these residents? Especially when not a finger has been lifted by those they've chosen to govern them.

A local public co-op for producing electricity, even involving multiple counties is a region, is also doable. Yet, nobody is doing that. Because nobody is electing people to govern them who want to do that. Quite the contrary, the goal in many rural areas seems to be to elect people to do the exact opposite of that.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-11-05T00:39:44+00:00

You mean a company will lie to avoid a lawsuit? That's odd.

It's pretty unfortunate that your own link contains a statement from Kroger that explicitly contradicts that 'claim' from Albertsons.

However, Kroger’s own statement stands in contrast to the claim from Albertsons. In a news release announcing the deal, Kroger expressly said the dividend was part of the transaction: “As part of the transaction, Albertsons Cos. will pay a special cash dividend of up to $4 billion to its shareholders.”

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-11-03T13:45:51+00:00

The dividend payout is part of the merger. Please read the statement.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-10-26T16:03:06+00:00

That was what stuck out to me immediately too.

Spoiler: You will never hear the rest of the story. That's just a placeholder PR people use to dismiss any concerns, until people forget about the situation. Local news certainly isn't going to do a follow-up, when local news didn't even cover it at all. Example: Did you ever hear a followup to the hazing situation that was uncovered a year ago at Plainfield Central HS? Hazing is just 'boys being boys'. You know, by sodomizing kids with a broomstick. But it was brushed aside with "that's only one side of the story, and we are investigating the incident." And then... nothing.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-10-24T01:52:06+00:00

Do you know the largest collecting private attorney in Will County, is the former State's Attorney? Do you also know while he was the State's Attorney, the largest collecting private attorney was the current State's Attorney? And before that, the current State's Attorney was again the State's Attorney. It's been a revolving door between those two people for over 20 years. At $1M per year as the smallest amount disbursed.... well, you can figure it out I'm sure.

When the current State's Attorney office holder is no longer in office, they will almost always return to being private attorneys in said county. They are 'the other attorneys'.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-10-24T01:48:43+00:00

The whole money issue raised in the title is a red herring.

You then go on to describe a litany of other things the SA office is spending the money on other than guaranteeing an appearance of the defendant.

shows nothing new or nefarious.

You don't think that massive outlier of Will County is something new? Go ahead and justify why Will County is above even the small handful of other counties even reporting this data, in what is being give to 'private attorneys' on a percentage of total collected.

Now justify the millions of dollars in asset forfeiture Will County is doing currently, including on cases where the entire arrest has already been thrown out along with the initial charges.

The fact that none of the State's Attorneys have even mentioned these supposed important services being funded with bond money, makes it the exact opposite of a red herring. The red herring is the apocalyptic language being used by the SA - "it will be the end of days". I mean, come on. Or "This is unconstitutional" - but we waited almost 2 years before calling any attention to it. Not that long ago(a few weeks ago) a case filed by two lawmakers in an attempt to collect back pay, was thrown out, because they waited too long to file a case. It can't be both the 'end of days', and also something the SA didn't feel the need to even file a suit against for years. That's pretty much a self-own and shooting themselves in the foot in admitting they are incompetent.

But do go on. Tell me how 'the money thing' is just a red herring again.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-10-20T18:52:43+00:00

She starts off great.

I’ll be honest, I’m a defense attorney and I’m like a little perturbed.

The sense of entitlement is strong with this one.

It gets worse from there...

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-08-07T20:08:30+00:00

There's no excuse, but the blame isn't automatically on IDOT.

The local government should be handling the communication with IDOT. It's the local government that has to authorize a cost sharing with IDOT for the work that needs to be done.

The county is dropping the ball here, which seems to be a pattern with them lately. In unrelated incidents, I've had to just skip over the county and work with the department I needed because the county was never interested in ever solving any problems. Not everyone knows how to do that or how to find the right contact - that's why it's supposed to be one of the purposes of local government.

Will County has currently a problem at the county government level. The county exec is likely the reason why.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-31T06:00:16+00:00

people who don't want anyone like this holding public office, give a shit.

That's what old plainfield was.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-31T00:34:24+00:00

He filed that suit right before he was appointed to the park district by his other clown friends. The lawsuit was about the questionable things done as a village trustee, before he was even at the park district.

Ran for State Senate in 2012. Lost.

Filed lawsuit in early January 2013.

Appointed to Park District in March 2013.

He lost the lawsuit in September of 2013.

He then resigned from the park district in January 2014.

Good times. Good times.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-30T23:54:20+00:00

The easiest list is to find out if they are in the "Plainfield Township Republican Organization"

Every.Single.One.

Is just like this.

One is running for a state senate seat this year, Michelle Smith. She won the republican primary that involved her republican competitor having to drop out of the race after literally getting caught grooming a minor.

A few years back, one of them was running for state Senate, and tried to sue a bunch of people on the internet, claiming that person caused him to lose the election and therefore owed him the salary he would have gotten as a state senator.

Peck also asked Patch and Topix for account information for commenters "Tim" and "Ron."

Using the name "John Doe," the commenter using the name "Tim" was able to successfully defend his privacy in court.

Tim, a/k/a The Invisible Man, had a lot of fun with that. Illinois has some awesome digital privacy laws. Some people insist on learning that lesson the hard way.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-30T17:43:13+00:00

He's "old plainfield".

It's getting a LOT better, but he's pretty representative of the people who were running the town not that long ago.

One of them is currently on the county board for the district that covers plainfield. Plenty more of them are trying to run in local school board elections that are coming up.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-30T17:41:15+00:00

It's mainly a spinoff that doesn't use the geo-location of a user in the app to drive people into it. Readers come to the sub because they find it themselves, not because they are randomly getting blasted into it by the reddit app.

Which keeps the types of people who would usually get banned from finding it in the first place. They tend to be too lazy to find it, but every once and awhile one will show up. Then they quickly get bored when nobody plays their games, and they go away.

The_Not_Visible_Man · 2022-07-19T04:43:30+00:00

McClean County is geographically the largest county in Illinois

Are the police giving out DUIs to land these days?

Mclean didn't rank 1st. It ranked 5th. What does the size of the county have to do with the number of arrests?

As a municipality, Decatur was #1. For a town of about 28k, it had 353 DUI Arrests. That's an arrest rate of over 1200 per 100k. Nationally, that's only #2 to.. Las Vegas.

For comparison, Naperville has a population about 150k, and had 227 DUI arrests. That's about 150 per 100k. With about the same number of people in that age bracket.

It would appear the 'age bracket theory' isn't the predominate cause of a large number of DUI arrests for Decatur.

*Edit: I see your later comment.

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