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To: Zakeet

Well, they did name I-355, toll road west of Chicago, Blagojevich Parkway, or some such name, only to have to pull the signs and name down after he went to prison.


17 posted on 02/23/2017 6:39:13 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1

Removed Trump Street Signs Now Missing:
Report
By Tom Schuba

The Chicago Department of Transportation doesn’t know what happened to the honorary “Trump Plaza” street signs that were taken down by city workers in December, the Chicago Tribune reports.

“I don’t know what happened to them,” transportation spokesman Michael Claffey told the Tribune in an email.

Claffey reportedly didn’t know what the city had planned for the signs, or whether they had already been destroyed.

The Chicago City Council voted in November to remove street signs honoring President Donald Trump’s riverfront hotel and condominium tower as a response to the Republican’s incendiary rhetoric and comments about the city’s violence.

The measure claimed Trump was running a “hateful, racist campaign against immigrants and minorities” and that the president had a “complete disregard for civil liberties dating back to the 1970s,” according to the report.

In October, Mayor Rahm Emanuel supported the move, but pushed for a more direct response to Trump’s candidacy.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/removed-trump-street-signs-now-missing-report-411676085.html


25 posted on 02/23/2017 7:02:37 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Bushbacker1

I-355 is the Veterans Memorial Expressway. They didn’t name a road after Blagojevich, but they did have his name on big signs over every toll plaza on the tollway. They came down after Blagojevich went away and, to Pat Quinn’s and Bruce Rauner’s credit, they have not put up their own names.


31 posted on 02/23/2017 7:17:58 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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