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Author:  NWsider4-3-3 [ Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:34 am ]
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cut-throat business. the demand for the t.v. guides caused people to put a $1 in the boxes and then take 4 or 5 sunday papers. some of the drivers stopped filling those boxes with sunday papers, another driver tried to throw some fear into a 15 y/o kid - accusing the kid of taking papers out of boxes.

the sun-times wingo-bingo game gave seniors a reason to make it to next week.

Author:  badrogue17 [ Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:38 am ]
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KDdidit wrote:
My first job in high school was stuffing Sunday papers. We’d start at midnight and stuff the first edition and then go to Mr Sub or Dunkin Donuts for a bit until the final edition came and finish up around 6AM. All for the princely sum of $3 an hour and all the Sunday papers you could take home. We were the opposite with TV guides, we’d skip adding them because we knew people would complain. That was when Deford was publishing the National, which was a pretty cool sports paper, but no weekend edition.

Today people would say you should make $15 an hour to do that.

Author:  KDdidit [ Sat Jul 09, 2022 2:59 pm ]
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Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

Author:  Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:11 pm ]
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KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

He's been pretty up front about that all along. He thought she had a chance to be able to fight Kim Foxx. That's part of why he is so pissed at Lightfoot now.

He has also been very upfront that Paul Vallas shouldn't run, because even if he wins nobody will let him accomplish anything and then they will just blame Vallas.

Author:  whitesoxfanfrank [ Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:26 pm ]
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KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.


You're a predictable liberal cuck.

Author:  Regular Reader [ Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:30 pm ]
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Kass has been a joke for decades.

A Royko wannabe. Who failed.

Author:  Warren Newson [ Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:32 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

He's been pretty up front about that all along. He thought she had a chance to be able to fight Kim Foxx. That's part of why he is so pissed at Lightfoot now.

He has also been very upfront that Paul Vallas shouldn't run, because even if he wins nobody will let him accomplish anything and then they will just blame Vallas.


Agreed. Kass has a lot of problems, but he's always been pretty open about his support of Lightfoot. Also, as I understand it, Hannity was providing Trump with messaging advice and other advice throughout his presidency. I don't think Kass took things that far with Lightfoot.

Author:  Seacrest [ Tue Jul 12, 2022 9:43 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

He's been pretty up front about that all along. He thought she had a chance to be able to fight Kim Foxx. That's part of why he is so pissed at Lightfoot now.

He has also been very upfront that Paul Vallas shouldn't run, because even if he wins nobody will let him accomplish anything and then they will just blame Vallas.


John Kass was an opinion columnist that often wrote about other subjects then politics.

To call him a news columnist is dishonest or ignorant.

Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Tue Jul 12, 2022 9:52 pm ]
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Regular Reader wrote:
Kass has been a joke for decades.

A Royko wannabe. Who failed.

I think he started off okay and was pretty solid on corruption but he eventually became a one-trick pony when he talked politics…and the repeated promotion of his podcast had a desperate feel to it.

Author:  good dolphin [ Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:48 am ]
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He was good as a check on Daley when few others were

I don't feel he's as dogged in his pursuit of truth with others

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:54 am ]
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Warren Newson wrote:
Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

He's been pretty up front about that all along. He thought she had a chance to be able to fight Kim Foxx. That's part of why he is so pissed at Lightfoot now.

He has also been very upfront that Paul Vallas shouldn't run, because even if he wins nobody will let him accomplish anything and then they will just blame Vallas.


Agreed. Kass has a lot of problems, but he's always been pretty open about his support of Lightfoot. Also, as I understand it, Hannity was providing Trump with messaging advice and other advice throughout his presidency. I don't think Kass took things that far with Lightfoot.



Agreed. This is just the woke dopes who forced him out at the Tribune making a big deal out of nothing.

Author:  Warren Newson [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:35 am ]
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Mr. Chicago man of the people now lives in Indiana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-est ... story.html

Author:  Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:46 am ]
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Warren Newson wrote:
Mr. Chicago man of the people now lives in Indiana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-est ... story.html

So? It is probably closer to the Loop than Vernon Hills.

And why does the Tribune care about the details of his house? It seems like some enterprising CWB type web site should determine where every Tribune guild member lives.

Author:  Seacrest [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:34 am ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Mr. Chicago man of the people now lives in Indiana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-est ... story.html

So? It is probably closer to the Loop than Vernon Hills.

And why does the Tribune care about the details of his house? It seems like some enterprising CWB type web site should determine where every Tribune guild member lives.


He lived in Western Springs for years.

Author:  BigW72 [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:52 am ]
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Kass is a regular substitute on AM560. He quite possibly has one of the worst and most excruciating radio voices I've ever heard and his stuttering and inability to articulate a thought and question rival Mike Mulligan.

I didn't read him when he was employed as a "journalist' so I'll refrain from commenting there. What I do know is he has no business being a radio host.

Author:  Bagels [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:31 pm ]
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he should have Tony LaRussa on as a guest

Author:  a retard [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:48 pm ]
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Seacrest wrote:
He lived in Western Springs for years.

Smart move.

Quote:
The Indiana house, which Kass and his wife bought for more than its $279,900 asking price, had a $2,796 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year. During his last year in Western Springs in 2019, Kass paid $16,432 in property taxes.

Author:  Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:27 pm ]
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Seacrest wrote:
Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Mr. Chicago man of the people now lives in Indiana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-est ... story.html

So? It is probably closer to the Loop than Vernon Hills.

And why does the Tribune care about the details of his house? It seems like some enterprising CWB type web site should determine where every Tribune guild member lives.


He lived in Western Springs for years.

Yeah, he went to the same church as my aunt and my late uncle, and later in life my parents (and nominally me).

Author:  SuperNintendoHjalmarsson [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:30 pm ]
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John Kass killed your uncle?

Author:  Nardi [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:48 pm ]
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SuperNintendoHjalmarsson wrote:
John Kass killed your uncle?

Don't think so, I just think he was late for church.

Author:  Warren Newson [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:29 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Mr. Chicago man of the people now lives in Indiana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-est ... story.html

So? It is probably closer to the Loop than Vernon Hills.

And why does the Tribune care about the details of his house? It seems like some enterprising CWB type web site should determine where every Tribune guild member lives.


1. Chicago is part and parcel of his brand. He very loudly and publicly moved there from Western Springs, but was quiet about the move to Indiana until the Tribune's story.
2. His podcast is called "The Chicago Way."
3. The pre-recorded intro to the podcast features a dramatic narration about a "man whose pen is mightier than the sword" and writes in "a tower by the river" as well as clips from The Untouchables.
4. The Tribune runs stories about every reasonably famous Chicagoan who buys and sells real estate.
5. I would give him crap if he moved to Vernon Hills as well.

If he wants to live in Indiana, that's cool, but he needs to stop leaning in so heavily to his Chicago identity.

Author:  NWsider4-3-3 [ Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:21 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Yeah, he went to the same church as my aunt and my late uncle, and later in life my parents (and nominally me).


a 2 or 4 mark church?

Author:  Seacrest [ Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:35 am ]
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NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Yeah, he went to the same church as my aunt and my late uncle, and later in life my parents (and nominally me).


a 2 or 4 mark church?


Which one?

Russian, Greek, Armenian, Eastern etc...

Author:  The Missing Link [ Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:47 am ]
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BigW72 wrote:
Kass is a regular substitute on AM560. He quite possibly has one of the worst and most excruciating radio voices I've ever heard and his stuttering and inability to articulate a thought and question rival Mike Mulligan.

I didn't read him when he was employed as a "journalist' so I'll refrain from commenting there. What I do know is he has no business being a radio host.


Yeah I heard him doing radio before and he is sort of inaudible as I recall.

I did used to read his columns and found that I actually enjoyed them for the most part. Didn't agree with him much politically but I always got the feeling that he was wired up when it came to Chicago politics. Main reason is that I never got the impression that he really had a dog in the fight politically speaking.

Author:  NWsider4-3-3 [ Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:48 am ]
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Seacrest wrote:
NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Yeah, he went to the same church as my aunt and my late uncle, and later in life my parents (and nominally me).


a 2 or 4 mark church?


Which one?

Russian, Greek, Armenian, Eastern etc...


just having fun

Author:  SuperNintendoHjalmarsson [ Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:32 am ]
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Nardi wrote:
SuperNintendoHjalmarsson wrote:
John Kass killed your uncle?

Don't think so, I just think he was late for church.


:lol:

Author:  KDdidit [ Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:25 pm ]
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Author:  Thomas-Sox-WorldSeries [ Thu Apr 06, 2023 5:10 pm ]
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KDdidit wrote:

The "discussion" after that post is embarrassing--as all echo chambers are.

Author:  312player [ Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:14 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
KDdidit wrote:


Whatever snitch, but lol at Kass still.

He's been pretty up front about that all along. He thought she had a chance to be able to fight Kim Foxx. That's part of why he is so pissed at Lightfoot now.

He has also been very upfront that Paul Vallas shouldn't run, because even if he wins nobody will let him accomplish anything and then they will just blame Vallas.


I don't think Vallas has won any race he's entered, I don't think any mayor can do shit about a D.A. who refuses to do their job. C.C. judges and Fox don't answer to the mayor, they can tell the mayor to get fucked and the mayor can't do shit. The only person in the state who can reign Fox in is J.B...and that fat liberal slob is just as goofy and useless.

Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:54 pm ]
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Kass mailed it in for the last 7 or 8 years and then bailed on the city to NW Indiana. Who cares what he thinks?

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