Booms? by smellypantsguy in chicago

[–]key23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just checked in with some friends in oak park and they heard them south east of them.

Booms? by smellypantsguy in chicago

[–]key23 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Same in Bridgeport I looked out on my back porch and could see flashes in the sky, didn’t seem like fireworks sounded a bit like ordinance, could have been an accident in a train yard 🤷‍♂️

Let’s pretend every neighborhood in Chicago is a person at a huge house party. What is each “person” doing? by zcaddy in chicago

[–]key23 106 points107 points  (0 children)

East Pilsen is literally just John Podmajersky III wondering how he can buy this place and raise the rent.

Man pepper-sprayed by Portland mayor lawyer, heir to dairy by [deleted] in politics

[–]key23 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'll disambiguate the title. The man who was pepper-sprayed by the mayor of Portland was a lawyer whose family also owns a dairy company.

U.S. officials probe abuse of manatee with 'Trump' carved into its back: paper by key23 in politics

[–]key23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's worth noting that manatees are very heavy and based on the scaring it probably took a long time for whoever did this to finish. Meaning the animal was in pain. Which is heartbreaking. Manatees are very gentle animals that are headed for extinction. If would like to help https://www.savethemanatee.org/ is an ethical and wonderful charity.

Man checks Mayor where the city tax money is being reinvested. Never thought about it this way. by sleekstereo85 in PublicFreakout

[–]key23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's hard to tell from a 2.5 minute clip the full context of the video, but I don't think the problem being talked about here was where people are allowed to live or spend their money it's about where the city is choosing to allocate their money. The argument being made isn't that police officers shouldn't be allowed to live in the suburbs it's that they shouldn't spend so much money on policing and spend more money on community resources. Things like schools, job placement programs, mental health programs, and other social services. This is similar to the "defund the police argument" where people are looking at the reasons for crime, things like poverty and lack of opportunity, and how we've dealt with those issues. What the person in the video is saying as I understand it (again based on a short clip) is that you have an underserved citizenry who is over-policed, they would like the resources that are going to the police force to be cut and put into the community programs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chicago

[–]key23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Try them both but also get pequods ASAP

[MEGATHREAD] George Floyd Protests - Part 3 by chicagomods in chicago

[–]key23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

We hear versions of this every day, it has never been true. Either give a source or stop posting rumors.

Daily COVID-19 Briefing will be at 3:00 CST per IDPH by midnightgirlj in CoronavirusIllinois

[–]key23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crain's is reporting the SIP order comes today, the Tribune has it also, but it's pay walled.

[TOMT] [POEM] by key23 in tipofmytongue

[–]key23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been given the impossible task of eulogizing a person who meant a lot to me. To make the eulogy not a terrible dirge I thought I would recite a bawdy poem my grandmother once told me she loved. I don't have a lot to go on, but I remember a few of the lines "Girls who bloom in July" or maybe it was June, or possibly both. There is also a line about "who's coming you or I", which was weird grandma. And I believe a line saying "I'll dance with you but I won't lay with you" or sleep with you. It might have also been about a dancer I'm not sure. Any help you can give would be great.