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‘I’ve never had to think about my own safety in this way before’: Shaken by summer looting in affluent neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are moving away.
Chicago Tribune ^

Posted on 08/27/2020 6:35:28 PM PDT by simpson96

They understand why protesters and rioters have poured onto the streets of downtown, and some acknowledge that crime is worse in other parts of Chicago. Some also agree with protesters that something systemic needs to be changed.

But they don’t want to wait it out here in the city, fearful of stepping outside at night and hoping for things to maybe get better.

They want out.

“Not to make it all about us; the whole world is suffering,” said Amber, a 30-year-old nurse who lives in River North. “This is a minute factor in all of that, and we totally realize that. We are very lucky to have what we do have.

“But I do think that I’ve never had to think about my own safety in this way before.”

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Amber, who requested her last name be withheld out of concern for her safety, said she and her husband are actively eyeing a home near the Indiana Dunes National Park, about 50 miles outside of Chicago. The millennial couple, both age 30, currently live in River North, where much of the summer looting has been centered.

“We’re just looking for more safety,” she said.

Amber’s husband also works as a nurse. The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising, Amber said, but living smack dab at the intersection of the downtown unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly difficult.

“I think people forget that people do live here, too — it’s not just the Guccis and the Jimmy Choo stores,” she said. “And I completely support it all. You stealing shoes means nothing to me — that doesn’t hurt me at all. It’s just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chicago; civilunrest; illinois; looting; riots
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To: nwrep

If tbe right people steal stuff its ok for amber


41 posted on 08/27/2020 7:12:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NorthWoody

Shes a libtard


42 posted on 08/27/2020 7:12:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

I know. There are some in my own family.


43 posted on 08/27/2020 7:14:12 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Blue Jays

Amber and her moronic beta-male husband will literally make it dangerous to walk your dog or go for an after-dinner stroll in typical suburban neighborhoods. They embolden the most violent Biden voters to attack.

44 posted on 08/27/2020 7:17:01 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: simpson96

The Democrat Party should be renamed “The Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another?” Party.


45 posted on 08/27/2020 7:19:44 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: The Antiyuppie

“If only they could be dispersed, like, only ten city refugees per square mile”.

Bonus—if they move to Cuba.


46 posted on 08/27/2020 7:20:14 PM PDT by Does so (Neo-Venezuelans = Democrats = Rioters = Looters)
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To: simpson96

“Amber’s husband also works as a nurse. The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising,”

What an absolute moron. Talk about incapable of connecting the dots. I feel sorry for the place they’re moving to.


47 posted on 08/27/2020 7:20:23 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: 2banana
She’ll never make that connection. That’s why having Democrat voters move into Republican areas is not good.
48 posted on 08/27/2020 7:25:07 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: simpson96

Meanwhile, here in Tulsa, our local U-Haul shop is jam packed full of recently arrived trucks. Please, oh please, don’t let them be from chiCongo, orygone, kommiefornia....


49 posted on 08/27/2020 7:31:21 PM PDT by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: simpson96

I always wondered what kind of people could live in Chicago and not do anything about the crime and suffering. Now I know, morons like Amber and her husband. Selfish and self centered.

Do not move to Arizona.


50 posted on 08/27/2020 7:59:32 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Kamala tosses out race cards as fast as a Las Vegas Blackjack dealer)
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To: simpson96

Why not stay and defend your utopia?

You voted for it and now surprised you got it?


51 posted on 08/27/2020 8:09:34 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: simpson96

Plague carrying rats fleeing a burning ship. They have learned nothing.


52 posted on 08/27/2020 8:32:11 PM PDT by robel
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To: simpson96

Amber - Stay in Illinois! We don’t want or need anymore BLM Left wing idiots from Illinois ruining Indiana.


53 posted on 08/27/2020 8:42:44 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: LouAvul

I’ve spent some time in Owasso.

The area is a comfortable place. I was intrigued by the soccer fields in Tulsa apparently used as water overflow repositories.


54 posted on 08/27/2020 8:51:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: simpson96

I bet they don’t own a gun or support the second amendment.


55 posted on 08/27/2020 9:04:42 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: simpson96; All

Kamala Harris Sponsored Bill to FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports<>

24News ^ | 08-12-2020 |
Samantha Foster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. . In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls,..Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877890/posts

HERE’S HOW THEY TREAT CONSERVATIVE Congressional DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT STUFF LIKE THIS and why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress
Democrats weren’t happy with his votes against abortion and on being the only democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports.
Those who live in Chicago already voted at their local public library. But in the reshaped 3rd Congressional district Daniel Lipinski lost because of redistricting. Which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd in a district that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway Wards which were reliable Dan’s father William O Lipinski supporters. But since most had areas with hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to Gutieriez’s district. Those results are posted below which actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.
Man Accused Of Raping 3-Year-Old At McDonalds Previously Arrested At Texas/Mexico Border
dfw.cbslocal.com ^ | February 28, 2020

Posted on 2/29/2020, 11:42:35 PM by lowbridge

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says a man who prosecutors allege sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl in the stall of a McDonald’s restroom located in Chicago’s North River community 600 North Clark street should have been turned over to the agency last year.

Christopher Puente, 34, is charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault. Cook County prosecutors said he confessed to detectives that he’d placed the child on his lap while he was in a restroom stall, pulled off her pants, and covered her mouth when she started calling out “daddy daddy.”

The father had taken his two children to the restroom, taking his son into a stall while his daughter waited just outside in the restroom. According to prosecutors. Puente, who was in the next stall, lured the girl into his stall while her dad was preoccupied, pulled her into his lap, pulled down her pants and underwear, and sexually assaulted her.

In June 2019, ICE lodged an immigration detainer with the Chicago Police Department on Puente, who has several felony convictions and a prior removal, after he was arrested for theft.

“How many more victims must there be before lawmakers realize that sanctuary policies do not protect the innocent?” asked Robert Guadian, field office director of Chicago Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). “Puente should have been in ICE custody last year and removed to his home country. Instead, irresponsible lawmaking allowed him to walk free and prey on our most vulnerable.”
Print this up and get this out there in your precincts

There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which would prevent Trump get reelected. Letting that happen will create problems we don’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved.

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Besides corruption here is just some of the million$ that the Biden are involved in
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The CCP’s (China Communist Party) newspaper The Global Times has endorsed Biden Claiming he would be the easiest to work with.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8


56 posted on 08/27/2020 9:26:31 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: simpson96

Amber, you are a vacuous moron.


57 posted on 08/27/2020 9:31:51 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: 2banana

If she’s going to keep voting democrat she’ll bring the hellhole with her... she and hubby need to stay where they are...


58 posted on 08/27/2020 9:38:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (BLM is a white liberal 'elite' Marxist Group that's playing the black community for fools.)
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To: ocrp1982

Same can be said for California and Colorado. Good observation.


59 posted on 08/27/2020 10:00:40 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

60 posted on 08/27/2020 11:13:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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