Rahm to turn Reagan home into parking lot for Obama Library.

[OriginalShroom]

Politics at it's worst.. And most disrespectful

Now, the University of Chicago Medical Center has announced plans to turn Reagan’s Chicago home into a parking lot.

In 2012, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks denied Reagan’s home landmark status. The University of Chicago set demolition for January and the bulldozers quickly moved in. The wrecking balls are ready.

A "plaque" could mark the historic spot instead, say university representatives.

In January, Reagan’s home was granted a last minute stay of execution by the City of Chicago, at least for now. But the clock is ticking and it could be 90 days or less before demolition begins.

While the university is planning to kill Reagan’s home, University of Chicago is also aggressively lobbying to be the site of President Barack Obama’s presidential library.

Could the Reagan site become a parking lot for Obama’s library? Opponents of the demolition say yes.

There is good reason for them to be suspicious.

First Lady Michelle Obama and the president’s close advisor Valerie Jarrett are former top executives of the University of Chicago Medical Center. President Obama was a lecturer at the law school for twelve years. And let’s not forget, Obama’s Hyde Park home is here too.

This is still Chicago. Barack Obama’s Chicago. Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago.

It is safe to say that Democrats don’t want any reminders of a Republican president named Reagan and his glory days a stone’s throw from a future Obama Presidential Library.

Better to raze the building now, than later. But do they have the right to erase Ronald Reagan from Chicago history?

Only time – and that wrecking ball - will tell.

 

[boilermaker55]

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Politics at it's worst.. And most disrespectful

Now, the University of Chicago Medical Center has announced plans to turn Reagan’s Chicago home into a parking lot.

In 2012, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks denied Reagan’s home landmark status. The University of Chicago set demolition for January and the bulldozers quickly moved in. The wrecking balls are ready.

A "plaque" could mark the historic spot instead, say university representatives.

In January, Reagan’s home was granted a last minute stay of execution by the City of Chicago, at least for now. But the clock is ticking and it could be 90 days or less before demolition begins.

While the university is planning to kill Reagan’s home, University of Chicago is also aggressively lobbying to be the site of President Barack Obama’s presidential library.

Could the Reagan site become a parking lot for Obama’s library? Opponents of the demolition say yes.

There is good reason for them to be suspicious.

First Lady Michelle Obama and the president’s close advisor Valerie Jarrett are former top executives of the University of Chicago Medical Center. President Obama was a lecturer at the law school for twelve years. And let’s not forget, Obama’s Hyde Park home is here too.

This is still Chicago. Barack Obama’s Chicago. Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago.

It is safe to say that Democrats don’t want any reminders of a Republican president named Reagan and his glory days a stone’s throw from a future Obama Presidential Library.

Better to raze the building now, than later. But do they have the right to erase Ronald Reagan from Chicago history?

Only time – and that wrecking ball - will tell.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Reagan is the only President born and reared in Illinois....it takes a certain kind of hateful spite to bulldoze such history...

Reagan Chicago home in 2011
[correction: this is his birthplace in Tampico, IL]

Young Reagan would watch the horse-drawn fire engines galloping wildly down the streets to save the day and he decided that he, too, would become a firefighter. It was here, too, that he survived a bout with pneumonia – he had the fight in him even then.

You can almost imagine him skipping down these streets, playing with his brother Neil, whose nickname was "Moon."

What makes a man great? And what makes a great president? Historians pen large tomes about that. Every man is the sum of his experiences – his loves, his losses, his achievements, and failures. How he sees the world and how the world sees him.

And this place – this place was a part of Reagan's formative years – what he discovered and experienced here in Chicago helped him on the way to greatness.

Reagan is the only president who was born and reared in Illinois. Until shortly before Ronald's fourth birthday, the Reagans lived in Tampico. From there they moved to the Chicago apartment. After stays in Galesburg, Monmouth, and a return to Tampico, they settled in Dixon. The Reagan brothers both graduated from Eureka College, which is also in Illinois. All of these towns, and a few other northwestern Illinois communities, are part of the Ronald Reagan Trail. Chicago needs to be the next stop on it.

Marathon Pundit: Update on saving the Chicago Reagan home

 

[Clementine]

He is sending a message. It's incredibly disrespectful.

 

[boilermaker55]

Why didn't the reagan group buy the building?

Reagan is the only President born and reared in Illinois....it takes a certain kind of hateful spite to bulldoze such history...

Reagan Chicago home in 2011

Young Reagan would watch the horse-drawn fire engines galloping wildly down the streets to save the day and he decided that he, too, would become a firefighter. It was here, too, that he survived a bout with pneumonia – he had the fight in him even then.

You can almost imagine him skipping down these streets, playing with his brother Neil, whose nickname was "Moon."

What makes a man great? And what makes a great president? Historians pen large tomes about that. Every man is the sum of his experiences – his loves, his losses, his achievements, and failures. How he sees the world and how the world sees him.

And this place – this place was a part of Reagan's formative years – what he discovered and experienced here in Chicago helped him on the way to greatness.

Reagan is the only president who was born and reared in Illinois. Until shortly before Ronald's fourth birthday, the Reagans lived in Tampico. From there they moved to the Chicago apartment. After stays in Galesburg, Monmouth, and a return to Tampico, they settled in Dixon. The Reagan brothers both graduated from Eureka College, which is also in Illinois. All of these towns, and a few other northwestern Illinois communities, are part of the Ronald Reagan Trail. Chicago needs to be the next stop on it.

Marathon Pundit: Update on saving the Chicago Reagan home

 

[TruthSeeker56]

I don't see the big deal. It's not like Reagan spent his entire childhood in this Chicago apartment building.

Let the childish leftists play their games. What decent, honest person would want to have their name attached to a SHITHOLE like Chicago, anyway?

Let the Obamas build their library in Chicago. Maybe they can build a branch library in DETROIT too?

Two shithole cities honoring a shithead president. PERFECT!

 

[boilermaker55]

It seems your idea of decent and honest has different concepts that many others.

I don't see the big deal. It's not like Reagan spent his entire childhood in this Chicago apartment building.

Let the childish leftists play their games. What decent, honest person would want to have their name attached to a SHITHOLE like Chicago, anyway?

Let the Obamas build their library in Chicago. Maybe they can build a branch library in DETROIT too?

Two shithole cities honoring a shithead president. PERFECT!

 

[ScreamingEagle]

correction.....the former picture posted was Reagan's birthplace....in Tampico, IL

THIS is a picture of his South Side Chicago home....832 E. 57th St. in Hyde Park...not that far from Obama's current home...

 

[Redfish]

the issue is the motive behind this. rahmbo is a disgrace to the human race so I think we all know his motives are to destroy everything he can about Reagan and any other republican.

But you fools in Chi-town that made him mayor enjoy your murders and corruption.

 

[nodoginnafight]

They threw away some toilet paper Reagan once used too .... the bastards.

No one has the responsibility for maintaining structures like these. If his fans wanted to preserve it for history, they had every right to buy it and do that - like the folks at Monticello and Mount Vernon have.

 

[rightwinger]

Ronald Reagan slept here

Sacred ground

 

[Claudette]

Jeeze Hell of a nice looking house. Hyde Park. Can't be a cheap one.

I guess no one wanted to buy it or mayby the family still owns it and sold it to the Hospital. Who knows. Who cares. Not me.

I'm sure RR could care less as well.

 

[nodoginnafight]

Ronald Reagan slept here

Sacred ground

If some people feel that way ... good for them. They should buy the place and protect it.

Don't just whine because someone else didn't buy it and protect it for you.

I can't stand people who just sit back and whine about what the government isn't doing for them when they aren't lifting a finger to get the job done themselves.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Jeeze Hell of a nice looking house. Hyde Park. Can't be a cheap one.

I guess no one wanted to buy it or mayby the family still owns it and sold it to the Hospital. Who knows. Who cares. Not me.

I'm sure RR could care less as well.

it's an historical Queen Anne/Classical style 6-flat apartment building...RR lived there in one of the first floor apartments as a child....he later wrote some memories of it...

in any case it's a great opportunity for a great Chicago landmark AND educational center....Chicago could use it.....you can bet everything Obama will be preserved.....

The former Reagan home is adjacent to the University of Chicago campus, the school that provided the intellectual force behind “Reaganomics” and is a few blocks from its new Milton Friedman Institute—named in tribute to the architect of Reagan’s free market policies.

 

[jillian]

Ronald Reagan slept here

Sacred ground

If some people feel that way ... good for them. They should buy the place and protect it.

Don't just whine because someone else didn't buy it and protect it for you.

I can't stand people who just sit back and whine about what the government isn't doing for them when they aren't lifting a finger to get the job done themselves.

and notice... the people whining are the same people who think government shouldn't do anything for us.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Ronald Reagan slept here

Sacred ground

If some people feel that way ... good for them. They should buy the place and protect it.

Don't just whine because someone else didn't buy it and protect it for you.

I can't stand people who just sit back and whine about what the government isn't doing for them when they aren't lifting a finger to get the job done themselves.

non-whining people ARE lifting a finger...

On Friday, January 11, Eleanor Gorski, Assistant Commissioner for Historic Preservation at the Department of Housing and Economic Development in Chicago, who approves demolition permits, affirmed that she fully expects the review process will take the full 90 days—until March 29—and that granting the Reagan home landmark status, after all, is one of the possibilities they are considering.

If you wish to help the cause, you may send your tax-deductible contributions made payable to “Friends of Pres. Reagan’s Chicago Home” to P.O. Box 3772, Washington, DC 20027-3772.

Friends of President Reagan's Chicago Home

 

[jillian]

the issue is the motive behind this. rahmbo is a disgrace to the human race so I think we all know his motives are to destroy everything he can about Reagan and any other republican.

But you fools in Chi-town that made him mayor enjoy your murders and corruption.

it's politics.

do you think karl rove would protect president obama's home?

or would he put a parking lot there?

me? i think he'd salt the earth like carthage.

 

[rightwinger]

What the fuck?

Republicans won't even admit that Obama had a home in the US

 

[ScreamingEagle]

What the fuck?

Republicans won't even admit that Obama had a home in the US

you can bet someday Obama's home.....his 6,500 square foot, Georgian-revival mansion near the University of Chicago.....will become a Chicago landmark....

 

[ZimothyTahn]

'thou shalt have no other gods before me, except ronald reagan. suck that wrinkly, senile dick until the day you die.' --the conservative bible