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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

So where will everyone park for games?

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On Lake or Washington.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Never a good sign....

WHURRMAI GONNA PAIRK MY CARE TO SEE DA HAWKS NOW THANKS ALOT REISENDORF

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But in all seriousness, this is a terrific move and both families should be applauded for this. Density around destinations is a good thing. It's a pity they didn't have this idea 30 years ago, when the United Center could have revitalized its surrounding blight and opened as the Camden Yards of indoor arenas. I hope that it is done right with some real humanity behind it and not just West Side Rosemont. We shall see.

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The bleeding hearts and artists…

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Elections have consequences.

Green space is overrated. We have a whole country of green space. Are we going to run out of areas for grass in America?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Oly time it will be green is in the play-in game.

I thought the Penguins did a nice job weaving their new arena into the city. Even built around a church to do so. Pittsburgh isn't as transit-heavy as Chicago is, so there's still a good amount of surface parking, but hardly an ocean like we have.

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They are still trying to develop the poor sections around the arena. It’s hard to do. Mostly I get pessimistic because these things turn into anything but poor people living there.

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Why are the Bears so poor?

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$5 to watch your car, mister. make sure nothing happens to it

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

You got that one. I was sure CH would.

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Mixed-Use Housing starting in the low 900s sounds like a good plan though.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I see that they're talking about putting a Pink Line station at Madison/Paulina. Another thing they should have done years ago.

If they're going to do that, they need to bring back the connector between Ogilvie and Clinton. I feel like a world-historic schmuck every time I look out the window at the Clinton station, pull into Ogilvie, about-face and walk down the weird stairs to the old concourse, out to Clinton, walk two blocks north and up the stairs to the station I just gazed at like five minutes ago. And don't get me started about coming home from Thalia Hall and having to walk all the way to the front door on Madison Street because all the side doors are locked.


I know my Pink Floyd when I see it, just didn't have a worthy rejoinder.

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Gotcha. Without some sort of NYC type controls I do not understand how to make affordable housing stay that way.

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Yeah, that's really about it. Some would argue that mortgages are a de facto form of rent control, but that's far afield. I'm just glad there will be less surface parking around an important Chicago location.

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This looks like one of those development plans that’s totally going to happen.

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First residents will move in and promptly complain about the traffic and noise

Christ, If Jerry is gonna is willing to do this, just do SOX park in the South loop with this money. Rather have that then this.

Comiskey is fine the way it is and sits empty half the year. Unitedcenterville can be a year-round revenue-generator. Also cheaper and easier to build a few buildings on some parking lots than it is to build an entire baseball stadium.

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I think they put it into a program that devotes it for 30 years or so in a recorded document.

This isn't exactly the gift some are making it to be. Gentrification was more than making its way to the UC area so this is just anticipating the market. Don't get me wrong, I still like it and I do expect they will put at least 25-30% into affordability. That would be a great place to live for someone in the program.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I'm curious about the "6,000-seat music hall" they're including. It's not without precedent: Madison Square Garden has always had the Felt Forum sandwiched between the arena and Penn Station for smaller shows, and part of the billion-dollar SoFi Stadium campus is the "YouTube Theater," which looks like it would have been rejected by Harper College for being a little too dull:



I don't think we have any concert halls that crack 5,000. I don't think the Chicago Theater, Auditorium, or Riviera do, though it's not as if I've tried to do a headcount. Rosemont might. I like the idea of more venues, sure, but I'm not sure which niche this United Center Concert Hall would fill or cannibalize. If it came down to it, I would rather see the Uptown finally get restored.

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I was at the Aragon Ballroom this weekend for the Saw Doctors. It has a 5K capacity

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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I think that and the Park West are the last two big venues I haven't really been to. Took a pass on LCD Soundsystem last May. People don't speak warmly of the acoustics. But yeah, I wasn't counting the Aragon or Radius because they're not really auditoriums per se.

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