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Originally Posted by harperpollock
Also, Louis - since you know about that stretch of Milwaukee - what was the reason the building at Milwaukee/Prindiville was demolished? That was out of nowhere. Did we really need another empty lot? Not that the building was significant or anything, would rather it go over the Max Gerber space going down. Was sad when they tore that building down.
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I don't know why that building came down, but suspect it is just to reduce the maintenance costs in anticipation of some future new construction many years down the road. If there was impending new construction there, then I'd have heard about it, so I think we are going to be looking at a vacant lot for a while.
It's something of a shame though, it was a solid double bow truss building which could have made one nice large restaurant or two smaller retail spaces.
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Originally Posted by brian_b
I'm certainly not a legal expert, but it seems to me that if things were really happening the way they are being reported, some alderman should be getting ready for the big house. No?
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Unfortunately that's not going to happen unless the Feds take interest in the situation. The only way that will happen is if this information gets out, so do your part and let people know Moreno's been doing this to all kinds of businesses in his ward. Moreno showed up with the cops during that one fight that broke up and tried to illegally shut the show down. There is a video of him and his chief of staff and a couple of other people standing down one of the side streets and high fiving and celebrating after the massive police response. Clearly the Congress was on his hit list. Some of the videos of Moreno personally trying to get the theater shut down can be seen here:
http://chicago-pipeline.com/2012/04/...gress-theater/
Unfortunately this is par for the course for Chicago alderman: bully businesses and then try to shut them down when they don't pay out. V-Live, which was owned by Ivan Fernandez (the owner of Aragon as well) before it was put out of business by the Congress, had a freaking shooting death on the dance floor and didn't even get a knock on their license and Congress gets one fight and is shut down? Smells pretty fishy to me. Now why on earth would Moreno have it out for the Congress, a business which just put one of Ivan Fernandez's business under? Hmmmmm? I'll give away the answer: follow the money, Moreno accepted huge donations from Fernandez's businesses and Carranza wouldn't play ball. It's no coincidence that Congress's biggest competition is the Aragon and its closest competition was V-Live and the owner of both just so happened to donate on a large scale to Moreno.
PS: Let's not forget this is the same alderman who just got busted accepting free recycling bins to be installed on city streets from a private contractor on the city's behalf that were slathered in giant banana republic style "Alderman Joe Moreno" ads with a big fat image of his ugly mug on the side of them. Next thing you know he'll try to pass an ordinance requiring all citizens in his ward to hang a portrait of him in their homes.