Sites where Obama met felons, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, etc.
Site where Obama sat in church and listened to Rev.
Wright......
Posted on 11/07/2008 5:42:14 AM PST by KeyLargo
Illinois banks on Obama buzz to boost tourism
By CARLA K. JOHNSON – 13 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's tourism Web site beckons visitors to "experience the city the Obamas enjoy." The Illinois Bureau of Tourism plans to launch a three-day getaway promotion featuring Barack Obama sites. And tour guides at the Old State Capitol in Springfield may get new scripts to stress two important speeches the president-elect made as a candidate.
It's all part of Illinois tourism officials' rush to capitalize on the Obama buzz.
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Sites where Obama met felons, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, etc.
Site where Obama sat in church and listened to Rev.
Wright......
Let’s hope they survive their visit to Chicago.
LOL! “Hey everybody, come visit the murder capital of the country! Look at all Obama did for it!”
and he is Billy Ayers house, and here are Farrakhan’s armed guards.
Come take the tour down Lakeshore,bet you don’t make it to Gary.
I’m bringing my dog...He gets “excited” when he sees iron fences....probably will “stop and Lift” at every third post!!
That’s funny...I’ve been cancelling all trips to Illinois. Their irresponsible choices of neo-marxists and traitors won’t get support from me.
You stupid FREAKS! People ain’t gonna be able to afford to go on vacation after your idiot boy toy taxes them to death. I hope IL economy is first to go down craphole after Obama gets through screwing up the free markets. Sorry IL freepers...
Okey, dokey. Let’s see, the majority of folks who can afford a vacation didn’t vote for him so have no wish to visit that den of corruption. The majority of folks who can’t afford a vacation because they haven’t gotten their share of the “spread the wealth”. Nope, sorry, I don’t see a boost in tourism in Chicago.
It already has.
From the Illinois outhouse to the Washington White House. 
Judge mugged near Obama’s house Monday
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
November 7, 2008
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com
The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama’s home in the Kenwood neighborhood.
Judge Eileen Brewer, a highly rated Harvard Law grad like Obama, lives a few streets away from the president-elect. The robbery happened Monday night, hours before voters would elect Obama president and retain Brewer as a judge.
“He really beat me up,” Brewer said of her attacker.
She had just dropped off her son’s tutor and was on her front porch when he struck. The man weighed over 200 pounds, and she had a tough time fighting him off, she said. “No broken bones, just Advil injuries. He punched me in the stomach, on the arms, my back. He dragged me across the porch,” she said.
After fighting unsuccessfully to hang onto her purse, Brewer chased the mugger down the block, shouting.
“This happens in Hyde Park,” she said.
Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, who also lives in the neighborhood, was mugged on her block last year.
The neighborhood next to the University of Chicago is a pocket of affluence among higher-crime areas.
Brewer and Obama live just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, in the Kenwood neighborhood.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1266202,CST-NWS-judge07.article#
Priceless.
I worked in Chicago years ago, and I loved being in the city. But I will NEVER visit that hellhole. I won’t visit my family in IL, but I’ll gladly send cash for them to come to ME. Screw IL. I am so glad I don’t live there anymore.
How about that $100,000 gazebo in the “park?”
Actually, Chicago is pretty low on murder per capita rates. It ranks well below Detroit, DC, Baltimore, Philly, etc.
“Actually, Chicago is pretty low on murder per capita rates. It ranks well below Detroit, DC, Baltimore, Philly, etc.”
“pretty low”
HUH??
Grim stat: Chicago ahead of N.Y., L.A. in murders
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1240036,CST-NWS-cops24.article#
Chicago Murder Rate Highest in Nation
by David Schaper
Morning Edition, September 2, 2003 · The number of murders in Chicago this year tops 400 over the Labor Day weekend, more than any other city in the country. In an effort to combat the rising murder rate, one Chicago police district mounts surveillance cameras on light poles and sends out more than 100 extra officers to patrol the streets. Hear NPR’s David Sch
“More people have been murdered in Chicago this year than in New York - even though New York’s population is three times greater. When Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew were killed last month, they pushed the city’s homicide total for the year to 436 and counting. New York has had 430 homicides.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1417745
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/01/2008-11-01_chicago_buried_in_murders.html
From a non-MSM source, http://www.cityrating.com/crimestatistics.asp:
Murder Rates Per Capita
DC = 5.75 times the national average
Baltimore = 5.48 times the national average
Detroit = 5.16 times the national average
Philly = 3.04 times the national average
Chicago = 2.7 times the national average
Yes, Chicago, has murders, but it has less than many large American cities.
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