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Public works projects around the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $200 million, The Washington Examiner reported Saturday.
Illinois approved a $224 million legislature budget earlier this month that included $174 million for road work near the presidential center and $50 million for the Garfield Gateway rail project two miles away, the report said.
About $200 million of that total budget would come from state taxpayers. Half of the $50 million is funded through a 2016 Transportation Department grant.
The presidential center would sit in Chicago’s South Side neighborhood.
Some residents are worried about getting pushed out of their lower-income community because of the gentrification that could result from the center’s presence, The Examiner reported.
“Our streets run red with blood from gun violence even as nonprofits dedicated to violence prevention are woefully underfunded,” Rev. B. Herbert Martin, Sr. wrote in a letter to the Chicago Tribune last month. “Community members face eviction and displacement from their homes because of gentrification across our city.”
Martin, Sr. said there was “no justice” in asking taxpayers to fund the center.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on the other hand, called the Obama Presidential Center a “transformational project” in a statement on the breaking ground ceremony for the metro stop Friday.
“Bringing the Obama Presidential Center to Chicago took leadership and vision, and we are gratified that our partners in Springfield also saw the potential for what this means for all of Illinois,” Emanuel said. “The state’s $174 million investment in infrastructure improvements near the Obama Center on the South Side of Chicago is money well spent.”
Part of the $25 million Transportation Department grant would also rehabilitate the original Garfield station house built in 1892 to serve a public purpose, such as a community space, Emanuel said.
It should have a black facade.
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If u axe me sh cago kan use nther lie barry. he dun left years ago.
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Barry is retired, a multi-millionaire, and still screwing the public.
Some people never change.
The legislature, dominated by semi-literate minorities from Shitcago “appropriafizicated” (das fancy talk meanin’ dey has gave) over $200 million borrowed Dollars for street repairs around the site of the Obamanation. The roads leading into Shitcago are falling apart even though they shut down all the interstates to one lane half the year. The reason for degraded roads is that they rent hundreds of miles of cones and barriers every year, and do not use concrete, only asphalt, even on high traffic trucking routes. From October to April they then salt the living shit out of the roads and run plows over them nonstop even if there is just a few flakes.
Some connected bastard obviously is selling asphalt and another one is renting them cones and barriers.
There are more pavement blowups already this year than I have ever seen before. I guess it is appropriate to have third world roads leading to a memorial for third world level leadership and corruption.
The state is going to hell in a handbag. We could try to elect a Republican but RINO’s own the Illinois party and whenever they get in they do not think about reform. They think about how they can steal now they are in charge. If the split California referendum makes it to the ballot this fall, Illinois will be next. The sign at Highway 47 will say “Welcome to Greater Iowa.” LOL! I can only hope.
As a former Chicagoan…you are way too soft on the thieves running Illinois and ChiCongo…
You want justice? Your like ignorantly put him in office for 8 years to destroy what made this country successful. He did NOTHING for you! And yet you blindly put his sorry ass back in office because of the color of his skin. My friends, your justice is at hand!
Maybe you can find a corner to sleep in when Rahm and Musk finish the catacombs that will likely be your new homes. Until then, either get used to kissing the rings of your Democrat masters, or wake up and vote for someone who actually gives a shit.
I won’t hold my breath.
Well, I don’t live in Illinois, so I don’t care. Actually, it’s better. The further that Illinois goes into debt, the more it will depopulate in the future. Once that happens, move in, kill the rest, and restart. See. It’s all just a big cycle in the long run. No reason to get angry.
When Chicago is depopulated, “far away from Chicago” gets more populated. Liberalism never recedes without a revolution or a catastrophe. It just spreads and infects as it goes along.
Eventually, I’m afraid, you will care. And the sooner you do, the better.
Especially when they move into your State, although California and NYC are even worse.
What the fuck is a presidential centre anyway?
Is it going to be a big bathhouse?
I DON’T CARE WHAT IT COST ILLINOIS
AS LONG AS IT DOESN’T COST ME ANYTHING
I HAVE NO USE FOR THIS BLACK GHETTO TRASH MUSLIM OR HIS WIFE/BOY FRIEND
WHAT EVER IT IS
Hey, we set up the Ulysses S. Grant Museum for almost nothing. Guess where it is:
A. Canton, OH
B. Starkville, MS
C. NYC
D. Bloomington, IN
And at zero cost to taxpayers.