Jack Schaller is dead and for years he didn't have to pay property taxes on his two story building in Bridgeport that housed his one hundred and thirty year old bar.
Jack Schaller dropped dead in may and already the Chicago Sun Ties was wondering why some of these properties owned by geriatric Chicagoans are not taxed at a high rate. The Chicago Sun Times didn't wait for this guy to mold in his crypt before they had to highlight that this famous bar and his property didn't pay a dime because of a law meant to protect elderly people from greedy developers and their cheap seedy construction and corporate strip malls they seek to replace everything old. This same paper once had an article about the decline of the neighborhood tavern never mentioning the real reason was the neo-liberal corporate agenda that demands sameness. everywhere. Schaller's Pump and places like this are rare antiques of buildings and how the urban environment looked unique and not so cookie cutter where everything is tailored for the automobile and most land these developers "redevelop" are in fact just concrete . 
Schaller's Pump and jack's property tax break prevented McDonald's Dunkin Donuts, or a Pakistani cuisine place where no one wants to eat at except Pakistani and Indian people. This place is a target in the gentrification world of the investor that seeks to replace everything with multiple business dwelling that is about as quaint as a Wal_ mart Supercenter next to an expressway. The Chicago sun Times though and their recent article are dismayed though of some grandfathers having a grandfather clause to protect their property from the property developer vultures who seek to destroy anything unique and of historical value for profit. As a bartender at the Itasca Inn I have seen our battle to remain and many old bars and buildings in DuPage County and the surrounding counties utterly destroyed to create assets for immigrant Muslims be it a dollar store, gas station, or another God dam Dunkin Donuts. obviously neo-liberalism capitalism seeks to own these spots that a jack Schaller and family owned a unique piece of history in a neighborhood and basically replace it with anything ahhh one can find in Edison, New Jersey or a Kent , Washington.
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