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By Steve Rhodes
“Chicago could increase its stock of affordable housing and invigorate its neighborhoods by lifting its longtime ban on coach houses and similar dwelling units, a group of real estate experts and urban planners said in a report to be released Thursday,” the Sun-Times reports.
Chicago has a ban on coach houses?
I feel like I know people who have lived in them! I think I’ve looked at a couple over the years when looking for a place to live!
Posted on May 10, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“A pair of New Jersey nursing homes where at least 66 people have died of COVID-19 – one of the country’s worst such outbreaks – are connected to a Chicago-area family with a broad reach in the business of long-term care, including ownership ties to more than a dozen Illinois facilities. One of them, in west suburban Willowbrook, had one of the state’s earliest serious COVID-19 outbreaks,” the Tribune reports.
Posted on May 7, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Inbox:
AUTONOMOUS TENANTS UNION ANNOUNCES INDUCTEES TO COVID-19 LANDLORD WALL OF SHAME
Posted on May 4, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“Eighteen employees at a Tootsie Roll manufacturing plant on the Southwest Side have tested positive for COVID-19 since the end of March, the company confirmed Tuesday,” the Sun-Times reports.
The paper only managed to get a statement out of the company assuring us that the health and safety of its workers is their “highest concern.”
Fuck you, Tootsie Roll.
Posted on April 29, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“… a report that Trump repeatedly refuses to read.”
That makes him a national security threat who should be removed from office. But somehow we don’t live in that world because we’re awful. https://t.co/4S6L95W3Cq
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 27, 2020
Posted on April 28, 2020
