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2023-12-11 Home Front: Politix

Illinois governor shutters $65 million migrant camp in Chicago

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Posted by Fred 2023-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 06:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 08:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 08:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 08:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-11 09:07|| 2023-12-11 09:07|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-12-11 16:03|| 2023-12-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-11 16:14|| 2023-12-11 16:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 16:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 16:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-12-11 16:59|| Front Page Top

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