▲ 22 r/uichicago
Wait a second...there's no student newspaper?!
Really...?
u/FlanFar5123 — 7 days ago
▲ 35 r/Pilsen
Don't be scared or intimidated to question BSL.
You have a right to publicly question his stupid positions.
You have a right to be really unhappy with his keeping the streets filthy, blocking all construction, which leads to soaring rent, blocking compassionate outreach to the plaza homeless, creating drama at every chance he gets, and doing absolutely nothing for the community.
Remember, he is the one who joined a flag burning and got within inches of Gov. Pritzker's face to scream at him, on Veteran's Day no less, all for publicity.
You and I are the normal, hard working, quiet, law-abiding renter. We have rights, too!
And, we vote.
u/FlanFar5123 — 10 days ago
▲ 32 r/uichicago
UIC has a James Turrell, and it’s falling apart
This one's for the architecture and history buffs. Very interesting info! Along with a dash of UIC mismanagement.
u/FlanFar5123 — 10 days ago
▲ 27 r/Pilsen
Just to show you how BSL's brain works
Lori Lightfoot was complimenting Pilsen's progress. You know, the stuff any normal, decent, law abiding citizen would want for their community.
Then BSL flipped a sh*t.
He said "the most vulnerable being left out. The marginalized being left out of the conversation.” Yes, they are Byron. You are the one that has done absolutely nothing to house all the homeless people in the plaza and living in tents underneath the viaducts.
“We’re still waiting for a true partnership that stands up to the big developers. That stands up to the corporate interests that continues to try and buy their way into the community." 'Buy' their way in? How else are they going to do it? Yes Byron, what you mean is that you halted all housing development in Pilsen and are therefore directly responsible for the surge in gentrification, surge in rents, and subsequent displacement of people you care to claim to care about.
"The alderman has opposed a number of private real estate developments in the community." Which is funny because he himself a property owner in Pilsen who gains from all the lack of development, which then inflates values and rents.
So THAT's a little peek into Byron's endless cycle of despair he brings wherever he goes.
AND THAT WAS SIX YEARS AGO! He has not changed one bit.
u/FlanFar5123 — 1 month ago