On Wednesday, crews began demolishing one of the worst slums in America, the Jericho Circle Slum (formerly known as "Westwood"), operated by America's Slumlords, the Aurora Housing Authority (AHA) in the second largest city of Illinois.
As a battle continues about the future of the site, how to demolish ALL of the failed public housing complexes in Aurora and how to prevent anyone from living in rotten housing again, it's a huge victory for everyone who worked so hard to make the demolition of Jericho Circle a reality.
Alderman Rick Lawrence, West Aurora Superintendent Dr. James Rydland with the entire school board, many community members, police and others played critical roles to solve the problem and force Mayor Tom Weisner to not support the AHA's scheme to operate Jericho Circle as long as possible and replace it with another mistake.
Turns out sometimes if you ask simple questions, speak up, find out facts and take action about chronic problems in our community, some people be forced to listen.
Thank You, Aurora for demolishing one of the chronic problems of recent history.
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Wrong, again. It was the Housing Authority's idea to tear down Jericho Circle.
Of course then, the rest did join the bandwagon.
Worst in America you say? C'mon man let's keep it somewhat real here.
Oh sorry, it is only one of the worst in America. Now that is truly accurate and professional journalism. My apologies...........
Now lets do the entire east side.
Guess who is trying to bring her welfare queen ways to the East Side Allissa Dockery she is running for the Board of Ed
Good old Openline is suppressing the voice of the people again! It's an old story; when the trend of the comments goes against Openline's bias because so many people are trying to tell the truth, he shuts down comments on that post. Of course that means any comments supporting him also get shut down. Look -- the post on him endorsing Fee had lots of comments -- all gone now. The post naming the so called "Madigoons", comments not allowed. The post on Kifowit living outside the district she's running in, no comments. The post on Biggert living outside the district she's running in -- oh, that's right, there's no post on that because Openline favors Biggert.
Well, here we go again. Openline posting another hit piece against Kifowit that he obviously knows is false. How can we tell? He doesn't allow comments on it. Openline is a coward and can't handle the truth, and being called on it. Instead, I'll post my comment on the "endorsement" from carefully selected aldermen here. So who do we have in this contrived piece? Alderman Rick Mervine, Alderman Alan Lewandowski, Alderman Rick Lawrence, Alderman Juany Garza and former Alderman Chris Beykirch. We already knew Rick "Illegal Entry" Lawrence was against Kifowit, because Openline takes his marching orders from Rick. Bit of a last Hurrah from Rick, since he'll be off the council after the next election. As Openline frequently points out, Garza the "Christmas Killer"'s opinion doesn't count. Mervine and Lewandowski both have minimal time on the Council, and were hand-picked by Weisner, who, according to Openline, is the next to be indicted by the Feds. And then Beykirch, who sold his soul when he abandoned his constitutents and quit his aldermanic seat for a city paycheck. I also love the "Kifowit could not be reached for comment". Openline probably didn't even try, and if they did why would Kifowit bother responding to this rag? You'd only misquote her and twist her words, anyway.
I'm sure this comment will be deleted, as Openline has been VERY busy deleting and shutting down comments lately. That's because there are so many people watching Openline and making sure the truth comes out. And Openline can't handle the truth.
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