Posted on 05/18/2020 2:11:48 PM PDT by PBRCat
As states around the country begin to open up, Illinois appears to be stuck in a COVID shutdown that may never end. This week, neighboring states Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa all began opening what Illinois' governor deems "non-essential" businesses - including bars, dine-in restaurants, small retail shops, gyms, nail salons, and hair stylists.
Yet similar businesses in Illinois remain closed.
There are now frequent rallies, protests and a growing number of lawsuits with the hope of getting Pritzker to reopen Illinois. This past weekend saw two large rallies - one at the State Capitol in Springfield and another at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.
A Facebook group with over 35,000 followers called Reopen Illinois was one of the organizers, along with many grassroot groups. One of main speakers in Chicago was Matthew Erich Mancow Muller, a Chicago shock jock. Other speakers included Illinois GOP chairman Tim Schneider, Will County GOP Chairman George Pearson, a Republican committeeman and Amy Jacobson, a radio host on WIND 560-AM.
I personally saw no hate speech signs while taking over 100 photographs.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to use 300 Chicago Police Officers and 200 traffic aides to close the Chicago Lakefront, bike trails and beaches - now off limits to healthy joggers, bikers, fishermen, boaters, and dog walkers. Some want these officers reassigned to neighborhoods and perhaps to help at nursing homes where over half the COVID 19 deaths are occurring.
There have been 961 people shot with 194 homicides this year in Chicago
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Oh, we tried that already and it didn't work.
Ignore Governor Creosote.
Open your businesses.
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Keep it up, Illinois. Don’t give up! Don’t back down!
There’s Illinois and there’s Chicago.
Went to Highland, Indiana for Breakfast this morning - it was great! Open Seating- no face masks. All Illinois cars in the parking lot.
I think brown , the little nitwit governor of Oregon, just learned her lesson that not only a legislature but a COURT can also strike you down pretty quickly! Shes toast !
The beautiful thing is that Trump pivoted to the reopening America side on April 16 and we are at May 17 one month later in America is pretty much already re-open and were not looking back
The next page it is going to be the illegal activities of all the Obama people
for the last three years !!!!
and their democratic cohorts !!!!!
no I dont think theres gonna be a lot of people convicted and going to jail
but its gonna be a bunch of very bad press VERY BAD for the Democrats for the next six months leading up to the election
as we have the drip drip drip of revelations
And deeply hidden super top-secret insider government information ( that trumps had in his little fingers for the last three years and knows it !!!).
that he just wants to release it all summer and all fall of 2020
and the conservative talk shows can just get on and talk about this nonstop until there is at least a trial and somebody convicted of something!
Right ? I mean can we at least have some trial or something????
The media stories are already written. These people will be labelled as “far right,” racist, gun toting nuts threatening violence and, oh yeah, white supremacist nazis.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to use 300 Chicago Police Officers and 200 traffic aides to close the Chicago Lakefront, bike trails and beaches - now off limits to healthy joggers, bikers, fishermen, boaters, and dog walkers. Some want these officers reassigned to neighborhoods and perhaps to help at nursing homes where over half the COVID 19 deaths are occurring.
There have been 961 people shot with 194 homicides this year in Chicago!
Really surprising that the non existent MOB has not paid a house call on this idiot!
Read post #5. This is EXACTLY what my wife and daughter did this weekend in OHIO. They also reported lots of fellow NY licenses plates outside the restaurant they were dining.
In the case of IL, with all the states around them opening, I’ll bet there were traffic jams on I-65 and I-94 outbound this weekend. It will continue. Then enough of these good folks will eventually leave and not come back.
When I say ‘folks’, I’m including sports teams.
The state will began to lose what little tax revenue it has coming in. Eventually, unless outright Martial Law is enforced to keep residents IN the state, and yes Governor - I hope you’re reading this...
... you’ll be reduced to a city/state populated with state employees, homeless, illegals, and those folks you like to call ‘at risk’ that you can’t stop from nightly gun play.
Suggest parking the yacht offshore in Lake Michigan. Should be safe there - for awhile anyway [giggle].
Well, there’s my $0.02 - with interest.
They think that San Fran Nan will strong arm Trump and the pubbies to fund the lockdowns with trillions more dollars. Trump and the Senate have to stay strong. No more money until you reopen!
Until he blocks the roads.
to note: I was in the Boston area during the Marathon Bombing. Probably the first most of us ever heard of ‘shelter-in-place’. Here’s what the didn’t tell you: even with importing 9,000 officers from else where, they couldn’t close down the Boston area, and they certainly could not keep folks in their homes.
Good luck trying to close down a state with people determined to leave.
“Until he blocks the roads.”
Then it will be time to go around the roadblocks.
"The Region" is open now?
I thought they would drag their feet a bit longer.
I miss Indiana.
Restaurants opened today! Lake and Porter Counties cashing in on a business boom from Illinois refugees.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a toll gate is placed at every single border exit.
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