"If You Lived Here Your Life Would Be Filled With Tragedy By Now"
So some folks in Chicago are attempting to derail Rahm Emanuel's campaign for mayor of that city by challenging his residency. Emanuel testified before the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners today that " he left behind his family's 'most valuable possessions' at his Chicago home, showing he always intended to move back." But there are other problems.
Part of the evidence being used in the residency challenge to Rahm Emanuel's candidacy is a YouTube video displaying his home for sale.
The realtor's tour-style video, which was put together for Real Estate Agent Charlotte Newberger, shows sweeping images of the Emanuel home at 4228 Hermitage Avenue set to wistful piano music.
Though the video is clearly labeled "Homes for Sale – 4228 Hermitage, Chicago, Il, 60613 – Charlotte Newberger," Emanuel's camp says there was a typo.
Not being an expert on municipal residency requirements in the Windy City, I have no idea one way or another whether the former Chief of Staff meets them. What is more interesting to me is the soundtrack to that the video made to show off the house. That is some sad, depressing Ordinary People shit right there. There might as well be a title card that says, "Buy this house and eventually everyone you love will die in it." I do not understand real estate!
Look: nobody ever sold a home by making a man feel invincible. Motherfuckers buy houses so when they die their body is not gnawed on by jack russell terriers in alleys. You buy a house in Chicago so that a homeless man can't try and climb into your abdominal cavity for warmth during the interminable winters. I'm honestly surprised there isn't a cowled and cloaked death figure standing awkwardly in the corner of every room in the video.
Are roving bands of jack russell terriers really that serious of a problem in the Windy City?
Nobody is safe from their tiny teeth.
I haven't lived there in quite some time, but isn't that area kind of slumming it for Rahm? If he is going to lie about his residence shouldn't it be something plausible? Is he trying to pander to the Bridgeport crowd?
I am assuming this does not, in fact, refer to 4228 South Hermitage. As much as living in a Back of the Yards warehouse might buy him cred with voters, I have a hard time believing that the US Representative for IL-5 could get away with living near Bridgeport.
It's not Bridgeport, it's North Hermitage on the northwest side of the city. It's not as solidly blue collar as Bridgeport. From my recollection it is more of a blue collar/middle class mix. Look it up on Google maps, there are rows of apartment buildings across the street and all of the houses are frame not brick.
Sorry, I was being somewhat glib/sarcastic/silly. 4200N (Berteau) in Lakeview is most definitely NOT blue-collar, not in the least.
Pete and Queen, as I have said it's been a while. Seriously though, yuppies have emigrated this far north and west?
Definitely. Maybe 11 years ago though it started turning over? During the Great Gentrification of Chicago, anyway. Everything along the Brown Line is pretty nice these days.
It's a decidedly not a blue collar 'hood. It's upwardly mobile Yupsters with kids. Million dollar rehabs. Julius Meinl. $2000 strollers.
They're just busting balls. Just the fact that you choose to run for office in Illinois should qualify you for resident status.
I could stare out the window at that 1 car garage for days.
Forgive my lack of plumbing savvy, but what the heck is 0.1 of a bathroom? The u-bend?
.1 is a half bath in real estate speak.. when a property has 2 half baths, they are shown as .2 etc…
By the way, just let me leave the snark for a minute. This is such a fucking stupid argument – not that The Awl is the one arguing it – from both sides.
Rahm clearly hasn't lived in Chicago since Obama got elected. He clearly put his house on the market. But Daley stepped down and shit changed. The guy was a US Representative from Chicago, he grew up in the area, who gives a fuck if he took a job in DC for a couple years? He's a Chicago guy who has owned a house in Chicago the whole time. Let him fucking run. If Alan Fucking Keyes can run for Senate in Illinois, then Rahm Fucking Emanuel can run for Chicago Mayor. I fucking hate all this procedural, partisan bullshit that has come to dominate every aspect of politics. What a bunch of whiny bitches.
Yep, drunk. Hi!
Oh no you will not raise the drunk comment bar like that, my friend. Not having it!
Whiny bitches, indeed!
Rahm is a permanent resident of arrogance, so he's completely qualified to run this cesspool of a city.