Via Chicago Breaking News:The IBM Building in downtown Chicago and the Andersonville district in the city's Uptown-Edgewater neighborhood have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, which experts say shows their importance in architectural and urban history. Continue Reading
UU Note: According to the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce website, Ald. Shiller's home in the 1200 block of West Carmen falls into the Andersonville boundaries. This should do wonders for her property value. We congratulate her.
1200 W. Carmen is the equivalent of a Schaumberg or the Evanston of Uptown.
ReplyDelete1200 W. Carmen is a suburb of Uptown.
Helen Schiller is, I believe from Westchester County New York a very high income area.
sigh......what a Utopian, crime free street "in" Uptown.
ReplyDeleteSo far removed from the bullets and 'lotion ladies' selling their wares at Wilson and Broadway.
But I live in SOWI (south of Wilson.....gee, maybe I've coined a new neighborhood). I'll continue to avoid the streets after dark.
I personally like DAMN.
ReplyDeleteDreaded Area Montrose North.
I like it IrishPirate.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is that there was a question raised by CBS last fall that she may not even live in that property on Carmen.
ReplyDeleteWell the CBS question was implicit.
ReplyDeleteHowever, a neighbor did take a pic of her entering the abode more recently after some gang activity or some such fisticuffy type thang. Perhaps it was a shooting. I forget.
I believe Shiller does live there. I wish she was stupid enough not to live in the ward. Some State Legislator on da sout side was criminally charged for not living in her district.
The mere thought of Shiller before the Peoples Court and Judge Judy brings joy to my dark and twisted soul.
I feel like Dick Cheney and the constitution just contemplating the joy of it.
It's funny how the Edgewater Buzz has
ReplyDeletea different slant,
the location of
Andersonville.
Ho Hum. Let's just go back to criticizing her for not speaking out against gang violence or her back-room deals for Holsten or whatever TIF manipulation she's up to. I think where she lives probably ranks pretty low on the list. Let's move on.
ReplyDeleteSOOOOO? Who's going to challenge her residency requirement? An interesting note is the property was quite claimed to her by pizza boi.
ReplyDeleteRyan. An alderman MUST live in his/her ward. It's da law.
ReplyDeleteTo challenge Shiller's residency you'd have to file a complaint with the Chicago Board of Elections and then the Chicago Board of Elections would have to perform a fair and honest investigation, which, based upon past experience, is not likely to happen in this ward with this alderbeast.
ReplyDeletePast complaints against Shiller voters, such as the one against the former owner of the Wilson's Men's Club who facilitated Shiller's nonresident schemes, were a joke. No, they were worse than a joke.
The Board of Election investigations were so biased that they concluded they could find no evidence that the suburban owner really lived in his luxury suburban home with his luxury suburban wife where his luxury commuter car parked each night. Nope, they concluded that he lived side by side with the the numerous alcoholics and down-and-outs in one of the units of his fire-trap low-income housing hotel, which to this day, cannot pass a building inspection.
What do they say? You can't fight City Hall. Which brings up another good question: In these times of severe budget shortfall, how can the Mayor justify having his own captive Board of Elections when normally the county board would perform these duties?
Buenapk
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean the property was claimed to her by Pizza Boi...what's Pizza Boi... and what do you mean?
Folks,
ReplyDeleteShiller does live in the 46th ward. While most of us would agree that her neighborhood is Andersonville and not Uptown, the simple fact is that her home is within the boundaries of the 46th.
I do not find it surprising that she chooses to live in that area nor do I find the gerrymandering that put that area into the 46th all that surprising.
Stu Piddy...
ReplyDelete"Pizza Boi" is Sam Toia, scion of Leona's Pizza.
This issue has been discussed before on UU.
http://www.uptownupdate.com/2008/05/whats-your-aldermans-side-job.html
A quit claim is a brief legal document that you sign before a notary that cedes all of your legal interests in a property. Women sometimes have to do it when they have a mortgage on a property in their maiden name but then refinance the same property under a married name. (At least this is how I understand the purposes of a quit claim. I'm not a lawyer.) I don't know whey Toia would do a quit claim on that property.
...the 1200 block of carmen is pretty crusty. I'm glad she's still closer to uptown that aville.
ReplyDelete$600K homes on leafy streets. Landmark, albeit ugly, houses next door. Walking distance to nice restaurants and retail. Yeah, I'll take some of that "crusty", please!
ReplyDeleteGood luck on challenging Shiller's residency. Does she even have to own in the ward?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Joravsky had a good story about the "Alderman Protection Act" with old tale of how law's sponsor's political mentor and cousin, Thomas Lyons, actually lived in Glencoe yet was claiming he lived on Milwaukee Ave in Chicago. Mr Lyons described his home in Glencoe as a "vacation home".
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-incumbent-alderman-protection-act-house-bill-6000-joseph-lyons/Content?oid=1541592
You want to challenge her residency? Vote her corrupt, decieptful lying ass out of office in February!
ReplyDelete"It's funny how the Edgewater Buzz has
ReplyDeletea different slant,
the location of
Andersonville."
Ralph Allen - I am not sure I understand your post?
We at the Edgewater Buzz realize there will always be some overlap with the ECB and UU. Afterall part of Andersonville is in Uptown, part of Andersonville is in Edgewater. Edgewater begins north of Foster, but Edgewater's Alderman's Ward extends to Lawrence, but Lawrence is in Uptown's Alderman's Ward. Then you have Ravenswood - ah I wont go there... :)
Public records for the Carmen property indicate, years past, Toia owned the property and quit claimed it to the beast. Why he did it would be a question directed to Toia. It happend right after the beast pushed/supported some juicy south side TIF shenanigans thru city hall. Toia was the benefactor of her hard work. Probably just a coincedence.
ReplyDeleteHelen actually goofed on her 2008 disclosure by stating she didn't live at the address she listed as owning with Toia.
ReplyDeleteIn 2009 she corrected it by stating her interest in the building is via tenancy.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14964932/ShillerHelen
ReplyDeleteUnless something has changed since early last year Shiller and Toia still own the building on Carmen.
Someone more ambitious that I can search the County Recorder Website to see if anything has changed.
"Shiller and her allies have labored for decades to preserve Uptown as the last North Side lakefront neighborhood south of Rogers Park that is home to significant numbers of poor folks".
ReplyDeleteHinz, Greg (2009-08-18). "Battle of Uptown rages without end in sight". Crain's Chicago Business
The columnist Mike Royko once charged that "Shiller's main motive was that she was building a political power base which included as many winos as she could drag to the voting booth."[3] She has not, however, been indicted for voting irregularities.[3] She has been accused of "using the Wilson Yard project to cram the area with poor people to maintain her political base."[3] The neighborhood of Uptown is home to two R.E.S.T. shelters, one Salvation Army shelter, one Salvation Army day center for the homeless, four Cornerstone shelters, a transitional shelter program from Inspiration Cafe, a transitional housing program located at 1207 W. Leland for active drug users with mental illness from Heartland Alliance, another transitional housing program located at 1325 W. Wilson from Heartland Alliance, four nursing homes for people with mental illness, and numerous large SRO buildings, many of them for people living with mental illness. When looking at the number of social services in the ward, its rate is approximately 5 times higher than what is found in other wards.
Joravsky, Ben (March 30, 2007). "Helen's Voters". Chicago Reader.
VOTE. HER. OUT!!!!!!