Trump Tower Declared 'Public Nuisance' After Killing Thousands of Fish in Chicago

[C0RI0LANUS]

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Source: The International Business Times (IBT)

A Cook County judge has ruled that Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago has been conducting operations that violate state and federal environmental law, operates without a legitimate state environmental permit, and has killed thousands of fish over the years.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson on Monday found that Trump International Hotel & Tower "committed a continuing public nuisance through a series of failures to comply with state and federal law dating back to 2008."

This ruling has taken years of litigation to achieve, with Friends of the Chicago River, the Sierra Club and the Illinois Attorney General having filed the lawsuit in 2018.

Read more: https://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-trump-towter-killing-fish-3743025

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The building's cooling systems have been drawing in excessive water from the Chicago River for decades.

Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago (Ghornephoto / Getty Images)

Lawsuit Linked Here:

https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/news/story/attorney-general-raoul-files-amended-lawsuit-against-trump-tower-for-continued-failure-to-follow-environmental-laws-and-protect-chicago-river

[Tarzanrock]

1. Chicago: Abate this Public Nuisance.

The City of Chicago needs to use its "police power" and confiscate the building and then "tear it down" to protect the public. Aesthetically and architecturally, it's an offending fucking eyesore which which doesn't at all blend in with the city's marvelous architecture which is yet another reason to tear this "public nuisance" down. Chicago: Abate this Public Nuisance.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. yes, that building is like a giant middle finger to Chicago, and at the same time, thousands and thousands of people

have given the middle finger to that building including me.

[live love laugh]

2. It's an eyesore with the name emblazoned in violation of city code

I was on Wabash last weekend and was telling my sister that I should go over and give the few occupants the finger.

Just as I said it a woman on foot walked by and held her arm straight up with the finger on full display. I cheered. Unfortunately we were moving through traffic so I couldn’t roll down the window to thank her.

[Iggo]

3. How many inspectors retired rich since 2008?

This didn’t just happen. Somebody had to let it happen. And someorangebody had to pay that somebody to let it happen.

[C0RI0LANUS]

4. Rudy Ghouliani and MyPillow Swindle probably stayed here during the DNC convention.

[Javaman]

6. I must resurrect this. I used to use it for george w. moron*

"born of a lightning strike on a pile of cow dung, the anti-midus turns everything he touches in to shit"

[Omaha Steve]

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