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Thoughts?CHICAGO, Illinois, January 25, 2013 - A new Cold War is brewing here in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and it has nothing to do with the frigid temperature.
The apartment building at 832 E. 57th Street was once the Chicago home of a boy who would become a President.
No, it’s not Barack Obama of Hawaii. It was at the apartment’s first floor window that a young Ronald Reagan looked out upon the world.
But some powerful Chicagoans are planning to demolish Reagan’s historic home. Is it politically motivated? Is Mayor Rahm Emanuel behind the move?
Reagan as a child.
It was a different world back in 1915. Reagan's family had moved here from Tampico, Illinois. His father had gotten a job at the famed Marshall Field’s – now only a memory. A coin-operated gas lamp was the only home’s only source of heat.
But it didn’t stop a young “Dutch” Reagan from dreaming.
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
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
The Democrats hate Reagan because they have no national figure to match his prominence. Obama keeps trying to get others to think of him as Lincoln and is trying to elevate himself to the status of Reagan, but his efforts are just silly, he looks silly even trying. It infuriates the Liberals when the Conservatives keep mentioning Reagan because they have no one at all and Reagan was very popular worldwide. He was a figure of humor and grace, without malice, very successful before running for President. All of the things that the Liberals hate so much about Conservatives.
I do laugh when I hear his name mentioned with such reverance as you do. Is that what you mean by humor?
The Democrats hate Reagan because they have no national figure to match his prominence. Obama keeps trying to get others to think of him as Lincoln and is trying to elevate himself to the status of Reagan, but his efforts are just silly, he looks silly even trying. It infuriates the Liberals when the Conservatives keep mentioning Reagan because they have no one at all and Reagan was very popular worldwide. He was a figure of humor and grace, without malice, very successful before running for President. All of the things that the Liberals hate so much about Conservatives.
I think it makes some liberals laugh that Far Right Conservatives keep bringing up Reagan because the GOP of today would cast him out as a socialist and a leftie.
The Democrats hate Reagan because they have no national figure to match his prominence. Obama keeps trying to get others to think of him as Lincoln and is trying to elevate himself to the status of Reagan, but his efforts are just silly, he looks silly even trying. It infuriates the Liberals when the Conservatives keep mentioning Reagan because they have no one at all and Reagan was very popular worldwide. He was a figure of humor and grace, without malice, very successful before running for President. All of the things that the Liberals hate so much about Conservatives.
The establishment Republicans of today would cast Reagan out, but for exactly the opposite reasons than you state. The establishment Republicans are the leftist socialists who are endlessly annoyed by their Conservative base. Boehner wants more than anything to surrender to Obama. Hopefully, we will continue to weed these people out of the Republican Party.
The establishment Republicans of today would cast Reagan out, but for exactly the opposite reasons than you state. The establishment Republicans are the leftist socialists who are endlessly annoyed by their Conservative base. Boehner wants more than anything to surrender to Obama. Hopefully, we will continue to weed these people out of the Republican Party.
The spot would most appropriately used for a septic tank.
The vacant building in question is owned by the University of Chicago. University spokesman Jeremy Manier said they do plan to tear it down – but for medical and biological research buildings, not President Obama’s future library.
“The University’s permit request currently is under review by the city,” Manier wrote in an emailed statement. “Recent media reports that have speculated on other potential uses of the property are inaccurate.”
If it wasn't important enough to place on the National Registry of Historic Places, it's certainly not sacrosanct. If it was? They won't be able to remove it.
I couldn't care even one iota.
The University of Chicago (absolutely no stranger to conservative luminaries: libertarian, Reaganite, or neoconservative), is supposedly not going to do that.
Obama’s Library is Not Taking Down Reagan’s House - ABC News
Well IF that is true then I guess it is ok but then this is Chicago and might be a disinformation campaign.
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