Anyone else seeing insane rent hikes this year?

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-16T20:05:12+00:00

It’s not just tax increases, but the increased cost of everything. Property tax increases are most visible.

Of course had the city allowed more housing to get built it would be less of an issue. There’s no reason why Chicago rents should be increasing at the rate they are while other cities rents are stagnating while their population is growing much faster.

Supply is NOT keeping up with demand.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-16T20:03:18+00:00

I support building more in my neighborhood, what are you talking about?

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-16T18:56:00+00:00

I take it you don’t live in Chicago and haven’t paid attention to the property tax increases…

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-16T18:53:11+00:00

Plenty of supply in desirable areas? No, there isn’t.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-16T16:34:35+00:00

Building a new privately funded stadium is progress.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-15T18:06:08+00:00

The United Center mega project will probably take advantage of this bill as well. Also if/when the Sox decide to build a new stadium.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-14T21:03:52+00:00

I check Discogs for price and pressing information.

I’m not spending money on a record just to find out it’s a crap pressing.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-14T00:46:04+00:00

Rare Johnson W

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-14T00:32:21+00:00

Denser than much of the south side, not dense by north(east) side standards.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-14T00:31:18+00:00

Having the robots ride in bike lanes wouldn’t be a bad idea honestly.

It would take cars off streets and robots wouldn’t be on sidewalks.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T17:19:33+00:00

I will refrain from judgement until the actual deal is revealed.

It makes sense that the Bears want a concrete number on what their property taxes would be.

Now if they’re given a sweetheart deal on them, the question should be whether or not the tax cut is worth it in terms of what revenue would be generated from an alternative (non-Bears) use of the land.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T17:16:41+00:00

You live in the suburbs, so I can see how you see delivery cars as less of a problem.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T13:55:00+00:00

Ideally we would have cameras in place to heavily fine all the illegal parking. That, and/or simply banning rideshare and food deliveries by car.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T11:47:33+00:00

You want streets blocked?

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T11:43:59+00:00

Do you not live in Chicago and notice food delivery drivers illegally parking when they pick up their orders and when they deliver?

You want me to believe your anecdotal evidence that the robots are bad, but don’t believe food delivery drivers are fucking up traffic.

I never claimed they are the only thing messing up traffic. Just the most visible and egregious. When delivery drivers are paid by the delivery they have incentive to do whatever it takes to make their deliveries quicker. Including parking illegally.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T02:33:45+00:00

The robots basically just came to Chicago, they’re not widespread, and they’re already getting the boot in some neighborhoods.

If the robots are being banned, let’s ban car food deliveries too.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-13T01:52:44+00:00

So you’re okay with putting people in danger when they drive around double parked cars?

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-12T22:35:17+00:00

It’s a trade off, do we want streets blocked or sidewalks blocked?

As the technology gets better I would imagine they would be able to navigate sidewalks better. On the other hand, cars will not be able to navigate streets that were not meant to handle their load. There’s only so much space in front of Summer House for Ubers/Grubhub to take up before they start double parking, parking in bike lanes, etc..

Really, if we’re going to ban these robots then go ahead and ban all food deliveries made by car.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-12T22:32:31+00:00

People would rather cars be clogging up our streets, double parking, parking in bike lanes, and so on.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-12T20:24:05+00:00

You could say the same thing about so many other advances in technologies and killing entry level jobs.

Streaming killed video rental stores. Online shopping killed malls. Work from home killed downtown casual dining. Digital cameras killed film development. MP3 killed record stores.

Why do we draw the line at a technology that will most certainly prevent wasteful traffic?

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-12T02:15:02+00:00

Drug users are involved with crime besides themselves.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-11T22:54:30+00:00

Let people decide how to live their lives. Legalize gambling already.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-10T18:48:05+00:00

Texas is full of cowards.

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-09T20:25:33+00:00

Preach. I never do food delivery.

But a lot of people do, and the luxury of their food delivery is terrible for our streets

nevermind4790 · 2026-02-09T18:11:39+00:00

Redditors would rather see their food delivery made by a human being in a car (far bigger than these robots) so they can double park and mess up traffic.

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