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• That article about the trailer park is quite funny. They actually try to get you to feel sorry for the residents of some beloved trailer park.

  It’s a TRAILER PARK, people, and you’re TRAILER TRASH

  Hurry up and build some real homes on that site, because its existence is too damn embarrassing

• Blair Kamin for Alderman! Or Mayor! Whatever it takes to get some common-sense solution to the Children’s Museum fiasco.

• UP – Living in Queens or Jersey, you would have a fond understanding for Trailer Trash…

  Kate & Joe, Interesting in your link to an the rental issue From Tribune – “Meanwhile, Ald. Edward Burke (14th) proposed an ordinance that would require owners who rent their condos, townhouses and other residential property on a daily or weekly basis to meet certain standards and obtain $400 licenses. Licensing was seen as a step that ultimately could lead to imposition of hotel-like taxes.” Cripes!

• How the hell can this idiot Burke keep getting reelected? He won’t stop until he’s destroyed all commerce in the city.

• the urban politician,

  You keep sinking lower and lower and lower into inhumanity.

  Last summer I spent some time at Harbour Point Estates and talked to some of the long-time residents – people who’d been there for decades, raised families there and seen them go on to college and success in life. Hard-working people making a go of life as best they could.

  In a civilized world the only “trailer trash” are the people who slime themselves by using that term.

• Jane, Jane, Jane,

  Have you ever met Ed Burke or seen him speak? He’s one of Chicago’s most knowledgeable citizens.

  The thrust of his proposal is perfectly sensible, and long overdue.

  Illegal short-term occupancies can be a major threat to condo associations and neighborhoods, and a major threat to the life of the people who occupy them.

  Do us all a favor and read and learn a little before spouting off.

• Joe I could agree if they were even remotely a fraction as tough on slum lords and building owners. On the same tangent, Mayor Daley is still talking behind scenes about issues of licensing developers, and some not having license for various projects.

• UP that was so classless and ignorant of you to say. They are people not trash.

• That sounds too over the top for the Urban Politician. Perhaps a faux Urban Politician. Perhaps not.

  In any case the sentiment is wrong. I suggest the author of that statement read “Whose Side Are You On” which covered the future of the union movement and dealt with such “trash” as lives in Hegewisch.

  Tom Geoghean, the author, mentions the word “dignity” quite a few times referring to grandparents that work two jobs to help put their grandkids through decent schools and other types of “trash” that live in such areas.

  Now as even one of the residents said the area needs the new homes, but to condemn the people who live there is simply wrong.

  As for Ed Burke he is right on this issue. He is also very bright. He is also very devious. He is many other things also. One of which he will never be is called “Mayor”. He finished off his chances of that between 1983-1987.

  Which is a good thing.

• irishpirate,

  Too over the top for the urban politician?

  Not too over the top for someone at the same IP address that the urban politician almost always uses.

  Maybe someone he lives with is mad at him and posting this garbage from his computer.

  Or maybe the thin veneer of intelligence he sometimes shows has worn off and exposed the snotty unfeeling arrogance that’s behind much of what he has to say. This is really no different in quality than his recently yowling “racists” at the people in the town where I live.

• Oh well we all say stupid stuff sometimes.

  Perhaps we should cut him a break.

  Or not.

  The beauty of IP addresses.

  It was a stupid, mean spirited comment. I can accept that sometimes if it is also humorous and original. Alas, twas not.

• Joe, I must have struck a nerve. I guess that “thin veneer” of intelligence is capable of something!

  Looks like I’ve struck gold.

  Trailer trash is trailer trash, and deep down you think of them the same. Keep pretending

• the urban politician,

  You did strike a nerve. I think you struck a nerve in everyone who has any sense of decency at all.

  I spent a large part of my growing-up years in an area that other people would consider a slum – because it was. I spent a good portion of the 4 1/2 years I worked as a social worker in many hard-bit neighborhoods. People in my extended family have lived in trailer parks.

  When you have any experience with life at all you learn not to judge people by where they live.

  In just the past week you’ve characterized some people as racists simply because they live in Wilmette and others as trailer trash based on where they live.

  Do you have any awareness of how repulsive a person you appear based on these posts?

• I judge people by where they live all the time.

  So do you. Even worse, I judge people by their race.

  Can you believe that? I’m a horrible person.

  At least I admit it. I’m more willing to live with that than you would ever be. I guess the pseudotolerant racial utopia that you believe to live in suits a person like you just fine.

  That’s what I learned living in New York–there really isn’t a lot of BS here. People judge eachother here every second of every day, and there really aren’t a lot of hurt feelings over it.

• the urban politician,

  Sorry to disabuse you, but I don’t judge people by where they live.

  And it’s evident that you haven’t learned anything living in New York. I suspect that New York is just like Wilmette, a place you’ve never been to even though you may be residing there.

  Tell us what your occupation is, up. It will increase people’s sense of nausea when they read it.

• “God made us…God don’t make trash”…remember that poster from your college days?

  Trash and class are not just a matter of economic status, as the recent headlines about certain upper-income “celebrities” can attest.