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Finally got a Bluesky account (I have been reading my fav profiles for a while), but Schumer ticked me off. I had to share info about the CR. But he and 9 others vote yes anyway. They didn't listen to us.
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![Despite the brutal killing, tenants said they hadn’t seen a spike in crime or a sprawling criminal enterprise operating out of the building, as the Trump administration has suggested.
Murray said there were migrant families who had been paying rent through the state’s rental assistance program and stayed once the money ran out. She said they were trying to make the building more inhabitable, too.
“That was the Venezuelans that was starting to clean the hallways and stuff,” she said. "[It] wasn’t management.”
Recent asylum-seekers often landed in rundown buildings like the one at 7500 S. South Shore because they had very few options after living in tents or being evicted from city-run shelters last year. Many struggled to find affordable apartments with landlords who would rent to them.
More families receiving state rental assistance ended up in the 60649 ZIP code covering South Shore than any other in the city. It’s the ZIP code with the highest eviction rate in Chicago, according to a WBEZ analysis of court records. Most of the money provided through the program went to tenants who found rentals on the South Side and the West Side.
Darren Hightower, who has lived in the building for two years, said he had “never noticed any gang activities while I was there.
“I’ve seen graffiti on the walls, loud music, pets in the hallway, multiple-people-in-one-unit type activity,” he said. “But I’ve never seen anything crazy.”
He said he had repeatedly called property management and even the police about squatters, to no avail. He said he was “disgusted” it took the raid to finally call attention to problems.
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Renderings of President Donald Trump’s ballroom project show just how much the structure will tower over the White House itself.
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This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
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