al right you know there is writers block when some non-descriptive bar get another mention but thi harry O's tax and village swindle is typical what s wrong with the nature of suburbia. Firt of all I have no relation with Nick Manousopoulos as was alleged in a previous days posting by are liquor and bar writer Baxter Lomax. After looking at Nick's picture I am not sure if he even is full Greek looks half a Mexican. I will say though Greek-Americans sitting on property for too long hoping to make a buck from the space has always been a major problem for suburbs, You see the Greeks in America and in general are Europe's only religious people left aside from Poles. he Greeks hated the sixties sexual revolution and many flock out of cities to get away so they could control the daughters of Pellopinisia so much better and in immigrating to these small villages and empty spaces many Greeks became property owners. Unfortunately many of these properties have gone downhill and declined and the number of cruddy bars that the city of Calumet City with it.
The village wanted to get rid of many of these places but some were owned by politically connected people in the village such as this Harry O's. That an alderman would ensure the sale of his family's bar by tax-payers of the village is an egregious example of callous expenditure of government in the conservative suburbs that seeks to maintain wealth of their family at the expense of others in society. this has been the basic rule and the reason the suburbs as separate political entities were even set up to be separate and give gains to other families out of the power structure of the large metropolitan city they sit next. Calumet City has had a huge influx of fat ghettos blacks who live off fast-food and unquestionably the Manousopoulos family was eager to sell and get ride of this building especially after the tax man had been inquiring why they were so behind. The south suburb’s municipal government paid $125,000 last May to buy a brick building that was long home to Harry O’s No. 1 Lounge, according to interviews and records.
Calumet City recently flipped the property at 816 Burnham Ave. for a fraction of what it paid last year, resulting in a $95,000 loss for taxpayers.
The buyer, Jose Rojas, owner of Cal City Bakery, paid $30,000 for the 2,456-square-foot building, according to interviews and records.
Rojas is a political supporter of Calumet City Mayor Michelle Markiewicz Qualkinbush. His bakery donated $200 to her campaign fund in August, state records show. Rojas says the contribution had nothing to do with the real estate deal and he gave because “I try to help out the city as much as I can.” Calumet City and other places around cities in America make this country cost ore with their core values of deceit and fraud using local governments as a source to further their fortunes and help their families escape the costs of bad investments and business deals.
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