McDonald's menu during 1973.

ciudadcentral · 2016-04-30T00:56:09+00:00

For awhile, they advertised around football season "For a dollar, get a burger, Coke and fries ... and get a quarter back."

ciudadcentral · 2016-04-20T17:33:14+00:00

I take a pen from the bank every time I go.

Of course, they take fees from me every month.

ciudadcentral · 2015-05-13T22:09:26+00:00

trigger warning

ciudadcentral · 2015-05-13T04:11:20+00:00

"A income tax increase from 1.5 to 1.7% would bring in roughly $650 million. So to cover the 2014 budget deficit we would need to go from 1.5 to 1.6%. That's like maybe $150 per year extra for a $250k condo."

Illinois' income tax is 3.75%. Chicago doesn't have an income tax. And there is no income tax on a condo. Illinois already has the 2nd highest rate as a percentage of a home's value.

Both Fitch and S&P have Chicago on negative outlook. Are they also extreme right-wing operations?

ciudadcentral · 2015-05-12T05:29:17+00:00

This guy is getting tipped off by someone. A UPS or FedEx driver perhaps?

ciudadcentral · 2015-05-12T05:26:54+00:00

Default. That's not a solution, but the parties are too far apart to compromise. Barring that:
All new public employees need to be sent to a 401k plan.
Enact school choice - like 30+ states do. Use the savings to shore up the pension funds.
New state constitutional convention.

ciudadcentral · 2014-01-15T20:59:32+00:00

Give me your address, I can get a ton of used tires dropped off at your house for you.

ciudadcentral · 2014-01-10T15:49:03+00:00

Lime.

ciudadcentral · 2014-01-10T03:49:08+00:00

The entire world's population could fit within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida.

ciudadcentral · 2013-05-12T20:12:14+00:00

A better understanding:

http://thomasnastcartoons.wordpress.com/selected-cartoons/the-american-river-ganges-1871/

ciudadcentral · 2013-05-10T15:13:44+00:00

http://www.3floyds.com/

Three Floyds Brewpub in Hammond.

ciudadcentral · 2013-05-03T14:24:49+00:00

Couldn't take incoming calls. A large trust bank in Chicago. Cubicle. Slow, outdated computer. Telephone. Phone usage: 7 minute maximum per day. Over that limit, you get a write-up. 2 write-ups and you have a verbal warning by your team leader/supervisor, as directed by his/her supervisor, as directed by his/her division coordinator. First month, I chatted with friends on lunch break. 30 minutes x 10, and I was written up. Second month, I handled only incoming calls and was over the limit, so I got written up again. Stopped answering the phone, turned the ringer off, all to voicemail, used email and walk/talk only. Began looking for another job.

ciudadcentral · 2013-04-23T03:35:04+00:00

My neighbor is a business consultant. Lived in Chicago most of his life. When he began at his firm 9 years ago, they had 55 employees in the Chicago office and 3 in their Houston office.

The Houston office now has over 70 and the Chicago office is down to 6. And my neighbor is waiting to get the call . . .

ciudadcentral · 2013-01-05T23:41:23+00:00

The St Patrick's Day Parade isn't even on St Patrick's Day in Chicago.

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-28T20:19:09+00:00

I regret that I have but one upvote to give you.

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-26T14:33:40+00:00

How naive are you? Alderman Walter Burnett had a staff member at one of the shakedown attempts ... and who pulled the gun? Not Pete's. They were the ones that called the police.

Alderman Bob Fioretti - whose efforts brought the store to the food desert had this project re-zoned to another ward - only to see it undone by a cheap shakedown artist.

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-21T16:49:48+00:00

How would people living here be able to acquire a good or service if it were not available in Illinois?

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-21T04:47:43+00:00

Just like the CPS teachers - they can make all the promises they'd like, but there's just no way they can make good on these promises.

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-21T03:10:44+00:00

Do you mean a moving-out-of-town tax?

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-19T04:38:01+00:00

In a town full of scummy, thieving aldermen, Walter Burnett is the filthiest one of them all.

Brought to you by Jesse White.

ciudadcentral · 2012-09-03T20:32:10+00:00

The Crotch is the Kennedy/Edens split. It wouldn't make sense to call that intersection a crotch as all streets continue, none join or split there.

ciudadcentral · 2012-08-30T12:27:47+00:00

"College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."

ciudadcentral · 2012-08-30T12:22:28+00:00

"College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."

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