There is a debate amongst the wisemen of Evanston, and it is about crack. They are selling it over in the 7th ward, which is sort of like far away. I am totally going this September.
And I'd better go soon, because the City Council was like, Enough! Not really because of the crack, but because they've sunk a lot of money into a housing project there. This housing project has had a bit of a problem. All of the residents have fled, because there was a shooting there earlier this year. Yeah, I didn't hear about it either. One more thing for Dickson to blame on the media's relentless pursuit of Lindsay Lohan stories, I gather. Fuck you, Bill Smith.
Onwards. The city spent $44k, which is all it gets from the Feds every year, to redo the property. Now — and this is kind of a literary device, so hold on — the dealers hide the drugs underneath the newly renovated siding. Oooh, urban parable! Sad, but just the way I like my inner city decay: bite-size, and analogous.
Then something predictable happened. Lordeth Jean-Baptiste, who apparently think the crack dealers vote, threatened not to appropriate more money to re-renovate the site.
"I'm going to support the request, Ald. Jean-Baptiste said, "but I want to make sure that Community Development yells at people some times. If we want to make some lasting changes, we don't want to keep throwing money at problems."
Hmm, what are we throwing money at without getting lasting change? The police department, perhaps? Like, maybe, letting the delinquent youths of Evanston drink devil juice and smoke weed?
City vows drug market crackdown [EvanstonNow]
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