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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:12 am 
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A monument most of us have driven by thousands of times and given zero fucks about, has to go.


Aldermen Ed Burke and Gilbert Villeagas want the city to remove a monument to Italian fascist Italo Balbo near Soldier Field, according to the Sun-Times. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the monument of his air comandante to Chicago in 1933. "I'm amazed the citizens of Chicago have not demanded that these symbols of fascism—a street and a statue bearing Balbo's name, donated by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, a sidekick of Adolf Hitler—be removed decades ago from the city's landscape," Burke said. "It is now time Chicago does something permanent about this embarrassing amomaly

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The Ricketts family will pay for it.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:15 am 
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Add an "a" on the end of the street and replace the statue with this




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rogers park bryan wrote:
Add an "a" on the end of the street and replace the statue with this




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Economic solution. I like it.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:36 am 
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Wasn't he a hobbit?


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Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
Wasn't he a hobbit?


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:18 am 
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He was a war hero on our side in WW1.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:01 am 
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Is Burke really that desperate for attention?

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I think a Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) statue or Walt Disney statue would be great. Both born in Chicago.

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Walt Disney

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jimmypasta wrote:
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TELL IT TO JERRY!


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:13 am 
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Look closely, I see serial numbers on those "Magic Bands"


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Look closely, I see serial numbers on those "Magic Bands"

:lol: :lol:

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There's a Confederate statue in a South Side cemetery and at least one pastor has an interesting take on it.

The Rev. James Dukes, of Liberation Christian Center, a South Side church, said that juxtaposition is a "healthy example" of how people should recognize "a past that is long passed."

"We can't erase the Civil War. We can't erase the fact that there was a Confederacy and a Union," he said. "But at the same time, those type of monuments acknowledge the fact that Harold Washington could become the mayor of Chicago because of the victory that took place over the Confederacy."

"I don't see it as a contradiction or a disrespect," Dukes said.

Instead, the monument should serve as a reflection of what black Americans went through during the Civil War and the Jim Crow era, he said.


However, a local history professor says:

"White men — North and South — were united by their support of segregation. They abandoned the whole issue of racial equality as one of the key things that was supposed to come out of the war," she said. "In that sense, this monument is troubling."


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His daughter certainly is breathtaking.

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There's a Confederate statue in a South Side cemetery and at least one pastor has an interesting take on it.

The Rev. James Dukes, of Liberation Christian Center, a South Side church, said that juxtaposition is a "healthy example" of how people should recognize "a past that is long passed."

"We can't erase the Civil War. We can't erase the fact that there was a Confederacy and a Union," he said. "But at the same time, those type of monuments acknowledge the fact that Harold Washington could become the mayor of Chicago because of the victory that took place over the Confederacy."

"I don't see it as a contradiction or a disrespect," Dukes said.

Instead, the monument should serve as a reflection of what black Americans went through during the Civil War and the Jim Crow era, he said.


However, a local history professor says:

"White men — North and South — were united by their support of segregation. They abandoned the whole issue of racial equality as one of the key things that was supposed to come out of the war," she said. "In that sense, this monument is troubling."
Gotta change your avatar. Already spoken for. formerlyknownas would like a word.

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His daughter certainly is breathtaking.

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Is Burke really that desperate for attention?



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You know I spent some time reading about the guy...he's a legit hero. Like opposed the Nazi's, opposed anti-Semitism in Italy, decorated combat veteran...if there was ever a dude you'd want to put a memorial for he's it.


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