Welcome new citizens!
Nobody would ever walk up to Bill Murray and give him Sox crap, it would be rightfully laughed at. This stuff is just cringe.
I frequent Altius dispensary in Orland Hills. Today I popped in to pick up and noticed a new addition. A brand new flock camera on the property of Joey’s Red Hots. This camera is not facing out over 159th street, it is pointed directly at Joeys drive thru and the dispensary parking lot right next door. When I asked the dispensary workers about it, they didn’t even know it went up. I walked out with their manager to show him and saw his unease about it. I also called Joeys. If you live in the area you should too. But any way this is just a warning because it seems posting these up to point at dispensaries is the latest flocking trend. You’re probably being tracked everywhere already but now they are preparing to take notes on what you’re buying too.
Flock has access to ring cameras and are invading your privacy. We waste tax dollars on these and pay an absurd subscription fee on these.
JB Pritzker allows flock and AI and surveillance data centers to built using our tax dollars. He has not made a single statement regarding flock and has no interest in removing them from Illinois.
We need to stop funding incredibly unproductive and wasteful things like this. We've already wasted more than 15 billion of Illinois tax dollars on AI and surveillance data centers. Let your alders, local reps and our senators know that you want them to stop wasting tax dollars on your surveillance and replacing your jobs.
JB Contact Page:
https://gov.illinois.gov/contact-us.html
Duckworth Contact Page:
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy
Find and contact your local Chicago Alder Search: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/lookup_ward_and_alderman.html
Find and contact your Illinois Reps: https://www.elections.il.gov/electionoperations/districtlocator/districtofficialsearchbyaddress.aspx
Federal taxpayer dollars are funding massive catering contracts for the Broadview ICE detention center in Illinois. Video evidence reveals dozens of unopened catered meals being tossed into open dumpsters, mixed directly alongside used DNA testing kits and biohazard medical waste.
Why is ICE over ordering and trashing fresh provisions from Nimbus Kitchen while completely ignoring both federal and Illinois Good Samaritan Food Donor Acts?
The facility is choosing to dump perfectly edible provisions into open refuse containers alongside potentially hazardous Bode Technology DNA testing supplies. This demonstrates a complete failure in basic operational oversight and waste management.
Read the full forensic breakdown and view the evidence docket here: https://www.eyesonice.net/p/taxpayer-waste-and-biohazard-negligence
Relevant Contact Information for Public Inquiry:
Broadview Service Staging Center (ICE): 708.449.2985
Bode Technology (DNA Supplies): 703.646.9740
Nimbus Kitchen (Catering): Commercial inquiries routed through nimbuskitchen.com
Mt. Moon Fest returns this year to Peoria Heights! A great line up this year of punk, emo, indie rock & collaboration with Defkon for DJ sets.
All profits go to Peoria Opportunity Foundation, a local affordable housing developer.
tickets are mtmoonfest.com
I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!
Examples could include things like PTown, Springpatch, Blo-No or (my favorite) Shampoo-Banana (never mind how common they are)...
incl. nicknames for schools or other institutions, geographic features etc.
Greetings from West Texas!
I'm plotting a trip in early to mid October to see more of Illinois than just Chicago for the first time. Looking for tips on accommodations,, eats (no meat), and things to do.
I'm planning on flying in between 10/7 and 10/9. I want to visit Sr. Louis first to go to the zoo, aquarium, and Jeff Goldblum concert at Powell Hall (10/9).
After STL, I'll be going into Illinois. I'll take a day trip to Peoria 10/13 to visit the zoo and see Weird Al in concert. I'll ultimately leave most likely 10/14.
I'm between, I'll go to Henson Robinson Zoo, Social Zoo, Miller Park Zoo, the Capitol at Springfield, and the Abraham Lincoln sites in Springfield.
I'm into animals, nature, baseball, hockey, trains, history, and any quaint and quirky local attractions and events.
Might stay in Springfield, Bloomington, or Normal to be centrally located.
Considering flying into and out of STL, O'Hare, Midway airports and renting a car for just the Illinois stuff. Looking to save money on transportation and accomodations (Air BNB a room, not a whole place).
Thanks a lot!
Remember the national headlines about a Texas deputy using Flock Safety's 83,000-camera network to search for a woman who had an abortion?
It turns out Aurora’s local neighborhood cameras were swept up in that search, and our police department's audit logs omitted those crucial details.
To be clear, the woman was not from Aurora, and we don't know if her plate generated a local hit. But because Flock operates as a nationwide dragnet, if anyone that Texas was searching for had driven through Aurora at that moment, our local cameras would have flagged them.
When the story first broke about this case (articles linked below), the Texas sheriff and Flock claimed the search was just a "welfare check" to make sure the woman was medically safe. But newly unsealed court records prove that was a cover story.
Unsealed detective affidavits show Texas deputies were actually running a formal "death investigation" for a self-managed abortion that happened more than two weeks prior. There was no medical emergency. Instead, deputies were:
We cross-referenced Aurora’s official May 2025 ALPR audit logs against unredacted logs released via FOIA from a Massachusetts police department. Because Flock is a shared nationwide dragnet, an out-of-state search queries connected cities simultaneously.
By matching the data, we verified the exact Texas agency involved, and the search date directly corroborates the reporting in the news articles linked below:
This Texas abortion investigation ran straight through Aurora’s local street cameras. Look at the screenshots below:
If another state hadn't released their logs, we would have never known local tax dollars were siphoned to assist a Texas abortion investigation, a clear violation of Illinois sanctuary protections. Shame on APD for keeping our community in the dark. What else are they scrubbing from our public records?
Which brings up the bigger question: why did police in Johnson County, Texas or South Hadley, Massachusetts even have access to Aurora’s street cameras in the first place?
APD’s ALPR policy (Policy 427.7) lets out-of-state agencies bypass local oversight through automated vendor prompts. We need to shut down this network, close the vendor loopholes, and demand an independent audit.
Meet (and Contact) Your Aldermen here.
APD FOIA records
SHPD FOIA records
Article Links:
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
https://cybernews.com/security/texas-police-abortion-investigation/
