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Post by Blue Star on Sept 23, 2013 8:04:41 GMT -6
I've seen some on the news in the Mag. mile area, in the last few years. It seems like hey're moving into areas to rob/kill etc... peeps with more money/income
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 8:35:10 GMT -6
Job, that would be my problem. I don't know Chicago at all. With my luck and sense of direction, I would end up in the worst sections of the City without even knowing it.
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Post by job on Sept 23, 2013 9:06:20 GMT -6
Job, that would be my problem. I don't know Chicago at all. With my luck and sense of direction, I would end up in the worst sections of the City without even knowing it. Like most big cities, the safest area of Chicago is the downtown. Every once in a while, a foreign visitor will pull into one of the projects to "ask directions." Bad things always happen to them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 9:26:14 GMT -6
One time my mom and I took a wrong turn and ended up right in the middle of East St. Louis. My mom thought we should stop and ask directions. I at least was smart enough to run every stop light and stop sign to just get the hell out of there. For some reason, when my mom and I would go anywhere, we would get lost. We had a lot of fun though.
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Post by dumdave on Sept 23, 2013 9:33:30 GMT -6
I was in a car load of other students driving from Dallas to Chicago (and leaving me off at Streator). Someone took the wrong exit & we ended up in East St Louis in the middle of the night. Not a good place to be.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 9:48:29 GMT -6
If I remember correctly, years ago there was a couple from Quincy that took a wrong turn and wound up in East St. Louis. They were found murdered and their car stripped of everything. East St. Louis scares the crap out of me. I don't know if it's still as bad as it used to be but it was the fear of every Quincian when traveling to St. Louis to take a wrong turn and end up there.
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Post by job on Sept 23, 2013 10:10:59 GMT -6
Eastside went rapidly down hill in the late 60s. Prior to its spin downward, it was not a bad place to live. I had a half a dozen fraternity brothers who lived there. About ten years ago, there was an interest arbitration involving police pay.in East St. Louis. Reading the award was enlightening. There were only two "working" squad cars in a town about three times the size of Streator, and the cops had not had a raise for over five years. Its population has dropped from around 80,000 to around 30,000. In the mid 70s, there was an Illinois Supreme Court case involving an Eastside school board member who had put out a "hit" on another board member. We had dinner on the "Hill" in St. Louis about a month ago, but we kept clear of East St. Louis.
There are other spots to avoid in Illinois. Ford Heights, formerly known as East Chicago Heights, comes to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 10:40:08 GMT -6
Yes Job when driving route 30 through the area you are talking about at night I always keep my fingers crossed.
Downtown E St. Louis looked like a ghost town last time I was foolish enough to be there at night.
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Post by job on Sept 23, 2013 12:05:31 GMT -6
Yes Job when driving route 30 through the area you are talking about at night I always keep my fingers crossed. Downtown E St. Louis looked like a ghost town last time I was foolish enough to be there at night. When I was a young lawyer, I worked for a state representative/ attorney who represented Dist. 169, East Chicago Heights. I ended up going to the school board meetings most of the time, and I was scared from the moment I pulled into the parking lot. For some reason, school board meetings brought out a lot of people who would hang around the school. One night, at the end of the meeting, I started to leave. The principal told me to stick around a while. I told him that it was late, and I wanted to get home. I changed my mind when he told me that a group of Blackstone Rangers were hanging around the parking lot. I used to negotiate contracts with a woman who was an IEA negotiator. She told me that the IEA had replaced the IFT in the grade school in East Chicago Heights and that she was going to negotiate the contract. She was a pretty little blonde, and I tried to talk her out of it. About a year later, after a bargaining session, she was dragged into a local motel and repeatedly raped.
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Post by chevypower on Sept 23, 2013 23:10:18 GMT -6
Give it time family man, I believe the national Guard will be the norm for all towns. The good book is right on the money. That's ^ NOT family man!! R U drinking again? lol didn't catch that until you mentioned it blue, thanks.
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Post by chevypower on Sept 23, 2013 23:18:34 GMT -6
Chicago has so much violence going on now that they might consider calling out the National Guard.......... knew it would come down to this. Don't the innocent children that are being gunned down deserve as much manpower as it takes to keep them safe? Well, as always, you are looking at this in a positive manner, so yes I agree, the Children deserve to be safe also.
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Post by ironeagle on Sept 24, 2013 6:04:17 GMT -6
IF and that is a Big IF Quinn and Emanuel call for National Guard troops to secure Chicago. They better have a ROE that goes something like this if we see something Illegal going on we Arrest and charge the person under MILITARY Law and if Fired upon can RETURN FIRE. They better not be going in as feel good troops as a show of Force as the Gangbangers will just lay low until they leave and come back out.
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Post by Blue Star on Sept 24, 2013 6:44:38 GMT -6
From the Times FB page: "Governor Pat Quinn would be open to using Illinois State Police to assist Chicago police combat city violence. Quinn said state police help in East St. Louis but that any state help would have to be through coordinated partnerships. The governor is only allowed to deploy the Guard in specific situations like a terrorist threat."
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Sept 24, 2013 6:52:52 GMT -6
And yet still not a word about utilizing project Exile, a program instituted while Rahm was a WH employee of Clinton.
Quite progressive these Democrats, blood for gun control.
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Post by Blue Star on Sept 24, 2013 9:46:21 GMT -6
What is project Exile Sniper?
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