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Home Front: Politix

Illinois governor shutters $65 million migrant camp in Chicago

2023-12-11

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Tuesday, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that he is shutting down reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
's planned $65 million camp to house illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists near Brighton Park after an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report showed toxic chemicals on the property.

According to NBC, the EPA released an 800-page report that showed the site set to house over 2,000 im~~migrants~~ colonists had mercury, arsenic, lead, cyanide, pesticides, and PCBs found on site.

In a statement, Pritzker's office said, "EPA standards on sampling and remediation are clear and known to the City. Those are not the standards the City chose to use." It continued, "The City did not engage with IEPA or the State before releasing the report and when it did release the report, was unable to explain the lesser standards they did choose to use and how they arrived at those standards."

"But while the City might be comfortable placing asylum seekers on a site where toxins are present without a full understanding of whether it is safe, the State is not. This site will not move forward as a shelter with State involvement," the statement concluded.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
said that the discovery of toxicity at the site was no surprise.

Residents of the area had filed a lawsuit against the city last month to halt the construction of the site claiming that it violated zoning laws.

"These people are just getting off the bus and everything's given to them," Richard Palacios, a long-time resident said. "As a taxpayer, I don't think that's right."

Posted by:Fred

#11 lead poisoning

Bloody weekend in Chicago sees at least TWENTY-TWO people shot, four fatally - with not a single arrest made in the crime-ridden, Dem-led city

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-11 16:59

#10 No problem. I wasn't driving, so didn't know the address anyway.

I do remember them being visible from the road, though.

The threat of nuclear war when I was in elementary school school was so ever-present that most of the kids had nightmares about it quite often.

Kids today are fed very different fears.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-12-11 16:57

#9 Gave you the wrong gouge. NOT Wilke Rd, but 1515 West Central. Bldg in the middle with two humps was the command bunker. Launch silo's were positioned to the east and west of the bunker in what is now a golf course.
Link to map.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-11 16:32

#8 You can get lead poisoning in lots of Chiraq neighborhoods...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-11 16:14

#7 ^^I remember my dad driving us by there a very long time ago.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-12-11 16:03

#6 Used to be on Wilke Road out in Alington Heights.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-11 09:07

#5 Back in the old Cold War days, the Army had Nike Hercules missile batteries on the lakefront.

Chicago’s sites were largely in the boondocks as well, but three Nike installations were spread along the densely populated Lake Michigan shoreline, from Jackson Park on the south side to Montrose Point on the north. In some cases rockets were housed only a few hundred yards from ranks of high-rise apartments.

Those were equipped with something other than conventional warheads. O.o

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-11 08:56

#4 Honey, let’s take the kids to the park on Saturday. I’ll pick up some Tyvek suits.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-11 08:30

#3 That might be a strategy for chess moving the migrants out of the city. Wouldn’t do much for tourism.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-11 08:29

#2 History of Brighton Park area.

Big railway switching and repair facilities near there.

And P2k, almost anywhere in Chicago within 10 miles of Lake Michigan was at one time related to something industrial, rail transit or stockyard.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-12-11 08:13

#1 According to NBC, the EPA released an 800-page report that showed the site set to house over 2,000 ~~immigrants~~ colonists had mercury, arsenic, lead, cyanide, pesticides, and PCBs found on site.

Wonder where they could test in Chicago and not find similar levels of contamination.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-11 06:52

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