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Reporting on Chicago COVID-19 protest
Illinois Review ^ | May 18, 2020 | Mark Weyermuller

Posted on 05/18/2020 2:11:48 PM PDT by PBRCat

As states around the country begin to open up, Illinois appears to be stuck in a COVID shutdown that may never end. This week, neighboring states Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa all began opening what Illinois' governor deems "non-essential" businesses - including bars, dine-in restaurants, small retail shops, gyms, nail salons, and hair stylists.

Yet similar businesses in Illinois remain closed.

There are now frequent rallies, protests and a growing number of lawsuits with the hope of getting Pritzker to reopen Illinois. This past weekend saw two large rallies - one at the State Capitol in Springfield and another at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.

A Facebook group with over 35,000 followers called “Reopen Illinois” was one of the organizers, along with many grassroot groups. One of main speakers in Chicago was Matthew Erich “Mancow” Muller, a Chicago shock jock. Other speakers included Illinois GOP chairman Tim Schneider, Will County GOP Chairman George Pearson, a Republican committeeman and Amy Jacobson, a radio host on WIND 560-AM.

I personally saw no “hate speech” signs while taking over 100 photographs.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to use 300 Chicago Police Officers and 200 traffic aides to close the Chicago Lakefront, bike trails and beaches - now off limits to healthy joggers, bikers, fishermen, boaters, and dog walkers. Some want these officers reassigned to neighborhoods and perhaps to help at nursing homes where over half the COVID 19 deaths are occurring.

There have been 961 people shot with 194 homicides this year in Chicago

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If only a community organizer could rescue us!

Oh, we tried that already and it didn't work.

1 posted on 05/18/2020 2:11:48 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Ignore Governor Creosote.

Open your businesses.

L


2 posted on 05/18/2020 2:16:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: PBRCat

Keep it up, Illinois. Don’t give up! Don’t back down!


3 posted on 05/18/2020 2:16:39 PM PDT by An Appeal to Heaven
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To: PBRCat

There’s Illinois and there’s Chicago.


4 posted on 05/18/2020 2:18:07 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: PBRCat

Went to Highland, Indiana for Breakfast this morning - it was great! Open Seating- no face masks. All Illinois cars in the parking lot.


5 posted on 05/18/2020 2:24:09 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: PBRCat

I think brown , the little nitwit governor of Oregon, just learned her lesson that not only a legislature but a COURT can also strike you down pretty quickly! She’s toast !

The beautiful thing is that Trump pivoted to the reopening America side on April 16 and we are at May 17 one month later in America is pretty much already re-open and we’re not looking back

The next page it is going to be the illegal activities of all the Obama people

for the last three years !!!!

and their democratic cohorts !!!!!

no I don’t think there’s gonna be a lot of people convicted and going to jail

but it’s gonna be a bunch of very bad press VERY BAD for the Democrats for the next six months leading up to the election

as we have the drip drip drip of revelations

And deeply hidden super top-secret insider government information ( that trumps had in his little fingers for the last three years and knows it !!!).

that he just wants to release it all summer and all fall of 2020

and the conservative talk shows can just get on and talk about this nonstop until there is at least a trial and somebody convicted of something!

Right ? I mean can we at least have some trial or something????


6 posted on 05/18/2020 2:34:43 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: PBRCat

The media stories are already written. These people will be labelled as “far right,” racist, gun toting nuts threatening violence and, oh yeah, white supremacist nazis.


7 posted on 05/18/2020 2:43:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: PBRCat

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to use 300 Chicago Police Officers and 200 traffic aides to close the Chicago Lakefront, bike trails and beaches - now off limits to healthy joggers, bikers, fishermen, boaters, and dog walkers. Some want these officers reassigned to neighborhoods and perhaps to help at nursing homes where over half the COVID 19 deaths are occurring.

There have been 961 people shot with 194 homicides this year in Chicago!

Really surprising that the non existent MOB has not paid a house call on this idiot!


8 posted on 05/18/2020 3:12:29 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!)
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9 posted on 05/18/2020 3:14:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!)
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To: colorado tanker; PBRCat

Read post #5. This is EXACTLY what my wife and daughter did this weekend in OHIO. They also reported lots of fellow NY licenses plates outside the restaurant they were dining.

In the case of IL, with all the states around them opening, I’ll bet there were traffic jams on I-65 and I-94 outbound this weekend. It will continue. Then enough of these good folks will eventually leave and not come back.

When I say ‘folks’, I’m including sports teams.

The state will began to lose what little tax revenue it has coming in. Eventually, unless outright Martial Law is enforced to keep residents IN the state, and yes Governor - I hope you’re reading this...

... you’ll be reduced to a city/state populated with state employees, homeless, illegals, and those folks you like to call ‘at risk’ that you can’t stop from nightly gun play.

Suggest parking the yacht offshore in Lake Michigan. Should be safe there - for awhile anyway [giggle].

Well, there’s my $0.02 - with interest.


10 posted on 05/18/2020 3:24:46 PM PDT by jimjohn (2020: We The People - and not the government -shall re-open America)
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They think that San Fran Nan will strong arm Trump and the pubbies to fund the lockdowns with trillions more dollars. Trump and the Senate have to stay strong. No more money until you reopen!


11 posted on 05/18/2020 3:37:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: jimjohn
In the case of IL, with all the states around them opening, I’ll bet there were traffic jams on I-65 and I-94 outbound this weekend. It will continue.

Until he blocks the roads.

12 posted on 05/18/2020 3:41:30 PM PDT by sistergoldenhair
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to note: I was in the Boston area during the Marathon Bombing. Probably the first most of us ever heard of ‘shelter-in-place’. Here’s what the didn’t tell you: even with importing 9,000 officers from else where, they couldn’t close down the Boston area, and they certainly could not keep folks in their homes.

Good luck trying to close down a state with people determined to leave.


13 posted on 05/18/2020 3:51:21 PM PDT by jimjohn (2020: We The People - and not the government -shall re-open America)
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To: sistergoldenhair

“Until he blocks the roads.”

Then it will be time to go around the roadblocks.


14 posted on 05/18/2020 4:18:06 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: EC Washington
Went to Highland, Indiana for Breakfast this morning

"The Region" is open now?

I thought they would drag their feet a bit longer.

I miss Indiana.

15 posted on 05/18/2020 4:59:45 PM PDT by lizma2
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Restaurants opened today! Lake and Porter Counties cashing in on a business boom from Illinois refugees.


16 posted on 05/18/2020 8:13:23 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: sistergoldenhair

I wouldn’t be surprised if a toll gate is placed at every single border exit.


17 posted on 05/18/2020 8:43:08 PM PDT by PBRCat
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