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More of that fear mongering bulls***.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 02:02 PM) So im from DG and growing up the downtown area was a ghost town of crap. My parents had a victorian house a few blocks from the train. We moved away to a subdivision and I grew up there. Fast forward to now and the house is worth about 10 times what they sold it for and downtown DG is bumping. Go figure. From what I heard La Grange had a similar experience. In the 80's the downtown area sucked and was run down, but in the 90's/00's it became much more developed and is now thriving.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:31 PM) this is what rushing to be the absolute first by a few seconds or minutes gets you:

cnn.com hasn't taken anything down yet.

Have Gary Harris or Adrienne Payne announced yet? They're decisions are going to most directly impact the Big Ten next year. If they stay it's MSU's conference to lose. If they go the field is wide open.

Just remember though, only Republicans protect the wealthy.

Ha, geez. Basically you have guys that look middle eastern or disheveled old white guys. That doesn't help.

I wondered about this. How on earth did this guy think he was going to get away with it at the finish line? He had to know there would be a TON of video cameras rolling.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 12:27 PM) Definitely, difficulty is reno's are going for straight cash in recent cases. We are definitely going into a place that will need work in our preferred price point. Jenks, commute is a concern, but most of it is walkability. Logan Square isn't exactly a dream commute now on the blue line. But I hate driving, have since I first learned to drive. I haven't seen LaGrange, so I wouldn't be speaking from experience on there, however. Most of the western burbs along the BNSF will require a drive/park to take the train unless you can spend 6-700k+. Those homes within 5-10 minutes walks are obviously very desirable. I'm sure that's the case in all the suburbs though as a general rule. Another place to check out is Riverside. My buddy and his wife just got an awesome cap cod on a short sale there. Bought it for like $175k with comparables in the 3-400's. It needs a lot of work, but they'll make a nice chunk of change when they get it fixed up and sell it.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 12:32 PM) Love that this is turning into a real estate thread. I'll play. Wife and I are going to rent in the city for another year (maybe Rock's place?) before buying a house. She's obsessed with quality of schools in whatever suburb we move to. As such, she's really intent on moving to a Hinsdale area (she also grew up there, which I think is a huge part of it). Jenks is looks like you're in La Grange, she threw that out there as well, and Clarendon Hills. Jenks let me know your thoughts on houses and prices there (and schools). For whatever reason she's against northern suburbs. I'm trying to come up with suburbs with a mix of location (commute on train to city) and good school districts (maybe mix in some NW burbs). Obviously houses in Hinsdale are $$$$$ so we'd have to buy something older and try to do a renovation. Part of me thinks that could work well, part of me watches HGTV shows and sees what can go wrong and how the money going out seemingly never comes to an end and you end up way over your budget. Also trying to figure out if we can make this "the" house and hopefully never move, or leave it open to moving down the road. Just not sure how exactly to play this one moving forward. In Hinsdale enjoy your property taxes. That to me seems like a place to move when you're 40-45 with a few kids about ready to go to middle school or high school, not somewhere to start a family. Otherwise you're spending a lot of money on schools that you don't use. La Grange is a great town. We moved there mainly because our friends from college grew up there. My wife and I both grew up down "south" (central/western Illinois) in small towns so we didn't know much about any of the neighborhoods/suburbs in the Chicago area. But the schools are great (from what we read, our first kid is only 10 months old. But my wife really did research and found it to be one of the better school districts in the state, especially for the relative cost) and the home prices range from your multi-million dollar mansions to your 250-350k ranches/georgians. For each town you go west (Western Springs, Hinsdale) expect your property taxes and home prices to go up as well. The best part of La Grange is the downtown area. Tons of high quality restaurants and shops. And the commute is great. There are a couple of express trains in the morning that get you into Union Station under 25 minutes. Same on the commute home. If you can find a place within walking distance obviously that's great, but you can also get parking permits for like $25 and no wait list (other communities like Hinsdale or Downers Grove have wait lists that take several years to get). And it's definitely a family-oriented town. With one or two exceptions, everyone in my neighborhood is probably 30-45 with a couple of kids.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 12:09 PM) It's not impossible for police to be racial-profiling s***heads, let's not rule that one out. I find it unlikely considering you had multiple agencies involved, but anything is possible.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) Seems this has turned into a real estate thread. We've been following the market for houses pretty intensely past year. Ultimately, our end point will be Oak Park, but for now, we cannot afford a house there plus the property taxes, and we still would prefer living closer to the city. Recently we've been scouring for neighborhoods where we could find a SFH at our price. This past weekend, after checking out portage park and other neighborhoods, we think we are gonna continue renting and saving what we can. While nice, they are not close enough to the city for me, and I don't think we'll end up staying for more than 4-5 years, and I do not want to deal with price volatility on a timeline that short. This approach makes me a little nervous because in specific neighborhoods, prices have gained healthily. But I don't think either of us want to reach on price prematurely. How far were you looking outside of the City? Was it a specific time period on your commute? A lot of the western burbs, even though farther away in distance, are actually faster commutes. Metra express trains are the bomb. I'm out in La Grange and my train takes 20-22 minutes.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 11:18 AM) Would "Praise Allah" be probable cause? Coupled with "death to America," sure. We have no idea what the probable cause was, that's why i'm asking. And although there are s***ty and abusive law enforcement personnel in this country, I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt within an hour of a terrorist attack. There had to have been something else that made them suspicious. Maybe he told them something that didn't check out. Maybe he was acting erratically above and beyond what would be expected of someone who was injured in an explosion. I have no idea, and neither does anyone else but the authorities. That's why I want to see what they put in their petition to the judge. And if it turns out it was nothing but he's a brown guy who praised Allah a little too much for a racist guy that tackled him and yelled to the cops for help, I hope he gets every penny coming his way for being treated that way.

I'd really like to know what the probable cause was in the petition for the search warrant. There had to have been something he did or said that made investigators think he was a "person of interest" for nearly 24 hours. Something a Judge had to sign off on.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:40 AM) The only racist was the bystander who tackled the Saudi man running from the scene. As opposed to all the other people who were running away from an explosion. Now that I can see, depending on what the guy was doing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:38 AM) And you know this how? You work for the Post? Lol, alright man. 9/11 was an inside job too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:33 AM) Except he was, by definition, never a suspect. At the most he was a "Person of interest", and the police never described him publicly as that. Fine, it was poor journalism. It wasn't purposefully done with a racist or fear mongering intent.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:32 AM) Calling people suspects early in the case worked out great after the Olympic park bombing. Only a few million dollar settlements paid out. Which is why they never said this guys name. And the reporting of Jewell went above and beyond "police have a suspect and are asking questions." They concluded he was responsible in their reporting.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:21 AM) The NY Post was not reporting on "fact" when they claimed that their was a suspect in custody. I don't think they ever used the word in "custody." They said a Saudi suspect was being guarded at a hospital, which ended up being 100% accurate. Edit: Ok, they did use the phrase taken into custody, but it's clear they didn't throw him in jail. It's not 100% accurate, but it's not some made up story either.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:14 AM) The fact that they jumped to the conclusion that a victim of the bombing was a suspect because he was Saudi is where that comes from. Every victim probably will get a visit from the FBI, but the NY Post decided that they could get an advantage by running the story about the Saudi and calling him a suspect when he was in fact not a suspect and the police denied that they had any suspects. So someone that is kept under guard and whose house is searched for nine hours can't be labeled as a suspect? GMAB. The authorities have various "suspects" during their investigations. Some pan out, some don't. To claim that the media was doing that to invoke fear of brown middle eastern people is ridiculous.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 08:19 AM) The long-term unemployed are unemployable, research finds Very depressing.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 11:10 PM) because he's saudi. its BS So it's racist and fear mongering for news outlets to report on fact. Got it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 03:28 PM) My company's stock shot up big today, new record for the company. Exciting times for a very conservative (historically) company. Where was my tip?! Decent bounce back after a pretty brutal day yesterday.

Ok, but that's not someone who is crazy.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 02:19 PM) I told my mom the same thing. The best stuff so far for me has been the Peggy work stuff. IMO she is/has been the best part of the show. She's the only character you ever really rooted for (at least in the first couple of seasons) and even though she has become a little more Don-like she's still someone that you want to see succeed. Everyone else i'm pretty meh about. Don stopped being interesting a couple seasons ago (with a few exceptions here and there). We get it, he's troubled, he's got relationship issues, he likes to cheat. Let's move on. Same with Pete. Oh great, he's creepy Pete again. Nothing new. Roger/Joan just play the role of one-line comedian and curvy, confident woman. And who else? Does anyone care about anyone else? Not really. Really the heart of the show was cool characters interacting with each other. Pete/Don, Don/Peggy, Don/a client, Roger/anyone, etc. Now Wiener has gotten so full of himself it seems like he forgot that even a well-written character show is incredibly boring if all you do is focus on individual characters and their thoughts/emotions. You have to give them something to do.