What happened?
Does anyone know what happened to what was going to be a Home Run Inn at 10900 S Western? The project was moving super slow. Now the signs are down and it looks like another stalled project. I was really looking forward to this place opening.
The neighborhood doesn't want a restaurant fill with NOGS. Every Home Run Inn is nothing but shitheads and trouble, they have to hire Chicago cops to stop them from running out without paying and fighting.
ReplyDeleteWhoever was funding it probably had second thoughts about opening up anything in "West Englewood".
ReplyDeleteTake a long hard look up and down Western Ave. then try to tell me the neighborhood isn't f@#%&d.
Western is not "the neighborhood" I went to Carmel in the 70's and used to take the Western Ave bus home sometimes...I was talking to a European American guy once and when I got off the bus at 95th and Western - he grabbed my arm and wanted to know why I was getting off there? Granted the urban ghettoheads are well represented on Western, but I doubt that is why they suddently stopped work... i heard that the city wanted interior revisions.....sounds more likely...
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DeleteAre you sure you did the math correctly? I don't remember 95th and Western being so sketchy in the 70's. I do remember riding my bike up to Radio Shack and the miniature golf, and the Baskin Robbins that Dib's worked at. Going to the M&R theatre, Evergreen Bowl, or hanging out at the Plaza. I think you mixed up your decades, Carmel. Or maybe your confused with the street numbers.
DeleteOh wait, Mt. Carmel, never mind.
Why dont you just take it easy with the neighborhood bashing. Actually, Its pretty good here and I dont want to leave.
DeleteYeah the 1970's - the Evergreen Plaza and alot of businesses have been patronized from people "outside" the neighborhood for a long long time. And if you hung around the Plaza - like I did - you would have noticed this....my point is that it is VERY obvious the clientele of many businesses in the area do not fit the demographics of our neighborhood....
DeleteBe happy we brought our money over across Western and helped your tax base.
DeleteWhen Home Run Inn can open a business anywhere it chooses, why would it choose 109th and Western?
ReplyDeleteConsidering this is such high profile, it would be nice if the alderman's office would get on here and explain what has happened.
ReplyDeleteFox's Pizza is 100% better than any Home Run pizaza I have ever had.
ReplyDeletehome run after a look at the hood was afraid of being over run by you know who, end of story.
ReplyDeleteit's simple, shitheads!
ReplyDelete19th Ward is going the way of the 18th. We now have three vacant storefronts on 103rd just west of Kedzie. They all have for rent signs. The blight is moving from 95th street south, has been hitting western and now Kedzie. Maybe if the 19th Ward moves fast they can tax the businesses more before they go out of business.
ReplyDelete100% correct that the 19th Ward is looking shabby - but guess what? Almost EVERYWHERE is looking shabby these days - the fact is that we are in the worst economic downturn in 50 years ! It is happening everywhere...my relatives in Glen Ellyn were talking about all the board ups there too! I travel the metro area and am astonished at the blight....it is the fruits of liberal Democratic policies .....the Obama Board Ups.....every boarded up business is a grave marker for jobs gone....tell that to "Pat" the ward hack who comes by your house this fall to tell you who to vote for...you know the "good guy" who is for "working families".... or just smile and nod politely....but vote Republican this November !!!
DeleteSounds like the number of tickets that had to be bought for Home Run in went up?
ReplyDeleteHaven't voted Democratic in a General election since Hynes threw me under the bus in 1994.
ReplyDeleteWhy does every comment have to turn imto an attack on our beloved leadership? Now its Tom Hynes. A man who gave up so much in order to dedicate his life to public service and the betterment of mankind.
ReplyDeleteThis is a man who would never throw anyone under a car much less a bus. How dare you say such a thing, just shut up.
doorbell ringer?
DeleteThe pro Tom Hynes guy is one of those who never did any work for Hynes.
DeleteExplain
Delete95th and Western didn't get unsafe until the 1980's. Ever notice the correlation between the opening of the Dan Ryan "L" and the decline of the plaza and the influx of crime out here? I remember when the Beverly Review police blotter had the names of the crime arrestees in it. So many of the arrestees lived either on State or Federal.
ReplyDeleteNo one ever thinks about the Lyndon Johnson Great Society programs (welfare) where they pay you to have illegitimate babies that grow up to be criminals. If the Great Society programs were never started, the mess you see on TV every night from the west side and south side would most likely not be happening. Why because the players, dealers, shooters and the victims would never have be born.
The libs alway act like Defense and its spending is so obscene. I say how about welfare? America, where the most poverty stricken people are the fattest.
let's keep focused people. our government is not going to create jobs we need them to get out of the way and
ReplyDeletelet the entrepreneurs do what they do. none of these pols are,our friends.look where all this social crap got us.
beloved leadership!!!! I do hope your jackin me........
ReplyDeleteI like Home Run Inn Pizza. I have never been to any of their locations. I know police officers who worked security for them. They all say the same thing...black gang bangers as customers. Everyone knows blacks don't tip. They didn't tip at Joe Bailly's..don't tip at Bourbon Street, Leonas, etc... Leonas almost lost their entire staff soon after they opened because of the ignorant blacks who invaded without tipping. Home Run Inn will attack trouble. Blacks are killing this neighborhood..just as they have killed other once great neighborhoods. I stopped going to Joe Baillys due the loud black patrons. Many people in the neighborhood started calling it Bro Baillys. I'm glad Pappas closed it...although I really loved the place...until the black plague descended upon it.
ReplyDeleteScottie Pippen also know as on Rush Street...No Tippin Pippin
DeleteThere is a real easy solution to that no tip problem and it does work. You put on the menu "Parties of 4 or more will have a 15% gratuity added"
DeleteI love it.
Back to the question at hand....does anyone KNOW what is going on with the work stoppage for this place ??
ReplyDeleteMatt needs to tell the story. What really happened here?
ReplyDeletehttp://chicago.everyblock.com/announcements/jun29-home-run-inn-5102620/
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This is the link to the thread discussing this issue on everyblock. Apparently the interior had changes which required permits, they plan on opening in the fall.
The work was stopped because of non union plumbing work. Simple. The Pulmbers contribute to the 19th Ward Dems.
ReplyDeletei doubt that very much
Deletesome one mentioned FOXES pizza, he was a total bullshiter for openers,alaways told story how he forced Capones sister Malfalda to sell the store to him,Henry Lang of Langs ice owned it and rented to fox,when Lang died family sold to fOX.Tom alaways had that bullshit squinty eyed look at customers when they came in like i can kick your ass if i want to, he tried it on a Italian kid who dragged him into the alley one night and kicked his ass big time, unfourtnatly the booze caught up with both Tom and his lovely Pollock wife and now the kids are trying to keep it afloat with the niggers,
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention Foxs. I knew of Foxs when it was across from G&L Auto Repair on Walden Parkway and next to the 19th ward office in 1967.
ReplyDeleteJust a few weeks ago I was going north on Western and turning left on 100th to go west. And as so many times before I almost got T-Boned by a south bound driver on Western . The only thing that saved me was that I drove up on the side walk. This was all because an ignorant “type 1” lady pulled west onto 100th and stopped on the cross walk till she figured out where she wanted to go.
The whole thing made my blood boil. My question is this, why is it after all these years on Western Avenue, Foxs has never constructed a parking lot for its place? In all those years they have been on Western every piece of real estate north of them to and including Jansons has been for sale, including the notorious Keyes. Their place on Cicero has parking lot and their place in Orland has a parking lot too. How many millions have they made on Western since 1967? And yet you still have the insanity of the 100th an Western.
Like the guy in the liquor store said they need a sign on the west side of Western under the stop sign. It would read” If you want to make a left hand turn out of here to north on Western, you ought to have your head examined”
Fox Vending was the Fox business you refer to on Walden Pkwy which later moved east to Wood and just north of the tracks. No affiliation to the pizza. Good old G&L Auto Repair though huh? Still going after all these years. It's gotta be more than fifty. Anyone know? When I was a kid I think my grandpa got gas there.
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ReplyDeleteLittle old Tom Fox was making pizzas in the window back in 1966-1967 in the building next to G&L's parking lot...Approx. 9935 s Walden Parkway. He latter moved to Delmar's Deli located at 9958 s Western. owned by Mafalda Capone, Al's sister. Correct Fox vending had no affiliation with the TOM FOX at the Pizzeria.