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For reference, this is 300 W Washington - PIN 17-09-442-008-0000, assessed at a market value of $2,190,360.
tax bill of this vacant lot in downtown Chicago
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For reference, this is 300 W Washington - PIN 17-09-442-008-0000, assessed at a market value of $2,190,360.
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tax bill of this vacant lot in downtown Chicago
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
tax bill of this vacant lot in downtown Chicago
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
2023: $292,593.15
2024: $70,386.00
change: $222,207.15 decrease is a 76% drop
the property owner lost every recent appeal at the Board of Review (the last one was 2020) so this is likely because property values have dropped a lot
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i'm making a more technical point that i've seen no evidence that american soliders have a positive duty to refuse an illegal order. illegal orders create a defense to a charge of failing to obey an order, and negate a defense to a criminal charge, but don't create an independent duty, as far I know
July 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
i'm making a more technical point that i've seen no evidence that american soliders have a positive duty to refuse an illegal order. illegal orders create a defense to a charge of failing to obey an order, and negate a defense to a criminal charge, but don't create an independent duty, as far I know
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I'm not convinced that there's actually a written rule that applies to the US Military that states that officers or enlisted are "supposed to refuse illegal orders". I think instead that "the order was unlawful" is established as a defense in a court martial for refusing to obey an order.
July 5, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I'm not convinced that there's actually a written rule that applies to the US Military that states that officers or enlisted are "supposed to refuse illegal orders". I think instead that "the order was unlawful" is established as a defense in a court martial for refusing to obey an order.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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We’re doing it again! Come watch wrestling with new friends and Japanese snacks!
Sunday from 5-8 at Kombini + Kanpai.
Sunday from 5-8 at Kombini + Kanpai.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We’re doing it again! Come watch wrestling with new friends and Japanese snacks!
Sunday from 5-8 at Kombini + Kanpai.
Sunday from 5-8 at Kombini + Kanpai.
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Spied in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood today. At least 5-6 small billy goats just roaming the sidewalk, with no human nearby. Charming, delightful, and utterly mysterious. Any locals know who these cuties belong to?
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Spied in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood today. At least 5-6 small billy goats just roaming the sidewalk, with no human nearby. Charming, delightful, and utterly mysterious. Any locals know who these cuties belong to?
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The annual property tax bill on this parking garage went down $8,000
Wrong direction
Wrong direction
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The annual property tax bill on this parking garage went down $8,000
Wrong direction
Wrong direction
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Azm vs mei suruga youtu.be/0buPDFDTDm4 🔥🔥🔥
#ChocoPro Full Match - AZM vs Mei Suruga at Emi Sakura 30th Anniversary show "Cult Heroine #stardom
YouTube video by ChocoPro wrestling
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Azm vs mei suruga youtu.be/0buPDFDTDm4 🔥🔥🔥
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alright man. let's wrap up this olivia nuzzi shit by 12am CST tomorrow. no more of this shit. we have moved on as a society.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
alright man. let's wrap up this olivia nuzzi shit by 12am CST tomorrow. no more of this shit. we have moved on as a society.
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This is a niche answer but when I was a teenager I used to see a band called You Stay Here I’ll Go Get Help listed on concert flyers around Chicago.
Never made it to see them and that is an un-googleable band name, so it’s a mystery for the ages
Never made it to see them and that is an un-googleable band name, so it’s a mystery for the ages
What's a band or musical artist you never got to see live but wish you had when you had the chance? Here's a few: Chuck Berry, The Beastie Boys, Aretha
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is a niche answer but when I was a teenager I used to see a band called You Stay Here I’ll Go Get Help listed on concert flyers around Chicago.
Never made it to see them and that is an un-googleable band name, so it’s a mystery for the ages
Never made it to see them and that is an un-googleable band name, so it’s a mystery for the ages
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“You’re not breathing” is a precursor to “Ocean waves,” and they mean the same thing: Fight, but take care of yourself, because the struggle is long, and if you let it destroy you, they win.
PTA shut down production and ballooned the budget on this movie so he could cast Benicio del Toro, and the very first shot of him instantly proves it was worth it
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“You’re not breathing” is a precursor to “Ocean waves,” and they mean the same thing: Fight, but take care of yourself, because the struggle is long, and if you let it destroy you, they win.
Reactivated my law license for 2026. as always, my practice is strictly limited to the needs of time-travelers. Bu now you should always already have had me on retainer going forward.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reactivated my law license for 2026. as always, my practice is strictly limited to the needs of time-travelers. Bu now you should always already have had me on retainer going forward.
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SabreTalk Episode 2 is now available!
🩸 Breaking the Muta Scale with my #AEW Blood & Guts review
✈️ Talking pro wrestling tourism in Japan with a community member
🤼 Why Riho would have ran the blade
Listen. Like. Love. Subscribe 🐺 #WrestleSky
🩸 Breaking the Muta Scale with my #AEW Blood & Guts review
✈️ Talking pro wrestling tourism in Japan with a community member
🤼 Why Riho would have ran the blade
Listen. Like. Love. Subscribe 🐺 #WrestleSky
One for the Sickos | AEW Blood & Guts Review + Wrestling Tourism in Japan | SabreTalk Episode #2
YouTube video by Kit Sabrefang
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November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
SabreTalk Episode 2 is now available!
🩸 Breaking the Muta Scale with my #AEW Blood & Guts review
✈️ Talking pro wrestling tourism in Japan with a community member
🤼 Why Riho would have ran the blade
Listen. Like. Love. Subscribe 🐺 #WrestleSky
🩸 Breaking the Muta Scale with my #AEW Blood & Guts review
✈️ Talking pro wrestling tourism in Japan with a community member
🤼 Why Riho would have ran the blade
Listen. Like. Love. Subscribe 🐺 #WrestleSky
Can anyone recommend a good paper that summarizes the state of the field on Demi Moore’s hairdo in A Few Good Men? I assume there’s a deep and well-developed academic literature on the topic.
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Can anyone recommend a good paper that summarizes the state of the field on Demi Moore’s hairdo in A Few Good Men? I assume there’s a deep and well-developed academic literature on the topic.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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I couldn't pack it into the article, but there are great quotes from anonymous National Guardsmen who had been called out to prevent unrest during a (failed) roundup of freedom seekers.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I couldn't pack it into the article, but there are great quotes from anonymous National Guardsmen who had been called out to prevent unrest during a (failed) roundup of freedom seekers.
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My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
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it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it
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Chicago, "The Wrestling Center of the World," 1957
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Chicago, "The Wrestling Center of the World," 1957
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Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.
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The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard