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Frank Sinatra's Chicago is no more
Fox news ^ | 04/21/2023 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 04/22/2023 9:20:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

"As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!" -Mehmet Murat ildan (Turkish playwright)

That didn't take long. The Mayor-elect of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, responded to a group of teenagers who recently attacked cars and assaulted drivers in the Loop by what sounds like justification for their behavior. While saying he does not "condone the destructive activity" (there's a euphemism) and that it "has no place in Chicago" (when it increasingly does), Johnson added, "it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities."

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Chicago is toast.
1 posted on 04/22/2023 9:20:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Forget it, Jake; itโ€™s Chi-town.


3 posted on 04/22/2023 9:25:42 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Chicago needs a Fallujah-style block-by-block clearing from a division of Marines. Crush the ghetto trash into oblivion. Deport the survivors.


4 posted on 04/22/2023 9:27:38 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chicago will soon long for the law-and-order days of Mayor Lightfoot.

Just kidding here. But it would make a good Babylon Bee article.


5 posted on 04/22/2023 9:29:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Itโ€™s so sad watching this decay. My wife and I used to do long weekends in Chicago when the Reds were playing at Wrigley. We would take the L and walk all over downtown. We never once felt unsafe there. We wonโ€™t be going back.


6 posted on 04/22/2023 9:30:18 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Frank Sinatra was born in New Jersey.


7 posted on 04/22/2023 9:30:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe he meant “toppling down” and not “toddlin’ town”? ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘


8 posted on 04/22/2023 9:33:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since when was Chicago Frank’s town? He was all about NYC, Palm Springs and Vegas.


9 posted on 04/22/2023 9:34:02 AM PDT by albie
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Cal Thomas is still alive?

Good for him on his commentary about a once great city.

10 posted on 04/22/2023 9:34:51 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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Don't worry, everyone ... Frank's frame of reference was Chicago, That Toddlin' Town.
11 posted on 04/22/2023 9:36:57 AM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At the very least these utes ignore those “opportunities” at most they pi$$ on them.


12 posted on 04/22/2023 9:41:43 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s the same ones that ruin every inner-city.


13 posted on 04/22/2023 9:54:52 AM PDT by boycott
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To: albie

Ever heard of the song ‘My kind of Town’? That’s where that’s coming from. ‘My kind of town, Chicago is’ (line from song)


14 posted on 04/22/2023 9:56:39 AM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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Hoboken NJ to be specific across the street from my grandmothers family.


15 posted on 04/22/2023 10:02:01 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chicago is on track to becoming another Memphis. Once a shining gem of a metropolis, now a dystopian, crime-ridden hellhole.


16 posted on 04/22/2023 10:03:57 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

White folks stay away!


17 posted on 04/22/2023 10:06:16 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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Seriously, my daughter got a full-ride scholarship to Rhodes College. We did a fact-finding mission, and once I saw the surrounding neighborhood, we crossed that one right off the list.


18 posted on 04/22/2023 10:09:17 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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Starved of opportunities in their own communities

BS most of the can’t even read let alone anything else they have caused their own problem and caused the tax payer more problems for bigger prisons.

Slackers don’t deserve pity only a kick in the ass to get them started.


19 posted on 04/22/2023 10:10:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: LibertyWoman; albie; nickcarraway
(Chicago Is) My Kind of Town--Frank Sinatra (1964)

The Wrigley Building is still there, but judging from the videos, the people no longer smile at you.

20 posted on 04/22/2023 10:27:32 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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