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Illinois Corruption

People who do not live in Illinois usually do not realize just how corrupt this State tends to be.  Case in point:

 

The “dwelling contractor” listed on Wisconsin building permits, Bulley & Andrews, is the same company caught up in the alleged “scheme to defraud” Cook County taxpayers by removing toilets from one of Pritzker’s Gold Coast mansions. The toilet scheme is still being investigated by the feds.

In April, Bulley & Andrews scored a taxpayer funded firm-fixed-price contract worth nearly $9 million to convert the former WestLake Hospital in Melrose Park into a COVID-19 acute-care site. The contractor also worked as a subcontractor doing similar work at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin. Both jobs got done, but neither site opened.

The contracts were issued as part of a $1.7 billion effort spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which Bulley & Andrews hadn’t worked with since 1944. A Courthouse News investigation raised concerns that much of the work had been “awarded to contractors without transparency.”

Pritzker’s administration didn’t respond to a request for an interview about the state’s role coordinating the work on the alternate COVID-19 treatment sites with the federal government.

Go here to read the rest.  The toilet scam came to light five weeks before the good people of Illinois Cook County elected the world’s dumbest billionaire Governor

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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Thursday, May 28, AD 2020 9:30am

In Cook County the only relevant item to the electability of anyone is the “D” following their name. in Chicago D stands for Corrupt. The crazy thing is most of them are either resigned to to or are gleeful about it and defend it.

I lived there for a short time in the mid and late 80s. It was bad then. I was shocked how much it had changed, and not for the better, when my daughter started attending college there six years ago. Did you you that a whole new neighborhood was unofficially established in the 90s that caters to the homosexuals, called Boystown? It’s now recognized by the City and more importantly is “officially” listed as a neighborhood by Google. I think it’s also an insult to Father Flanagan’s Boys Town.

ken
ken
Thursday, May 28, AD 2020 11:27am

Boystown-complete with a bar named “Manhole”.

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Tuesday, June 2, AD 2020 7:46am

My niece is starting a new job in Chicago in August. She just graduated from college. I can’t feel happy for her because of where she has decided to live. She wanted to get away from her parents since high school and went to college as far away as she could get while staying in Ohio.

Young adults have a fascination with so called garden spot cities. The truth is, Chicago, outside of its most expensive neighborhoods, is no place any sane person would want to move to.

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