Who is Edward Davis, and why doesn't he get parking tickets in Chicago?
Can you get confirmation on the owner of this car?
We need some sleuthing help here. The more people who can do this, the more cover it gives all of us in going up against the Daley Machine and corrupt Democrats here in Chicago.
Tomorrow, when the Secretary of State’s office opens here in Chicago, if it is at all possible, please go down there and ask how to identify the owner of IL-plate X55 0474, a silver 2002 BMW. This is the “unticketable car” in our “Mystery of the Unticketable Car”.
We got a tip the owner’s name is Edward Davis, but we need this confirmed, and we don’t know if we’ll be able to make it to the Loop and talk to the Secretary of State’s office ourselves. If you work in Chicago, and you get a lunch break, maybe you could do some sleuthing and email the results to us at HillBuzz@gmail.com.
If the owner of this car really IS Edward Davis, then which Edward Davis is it? Doing a quick Google search, there are several potential EDs out there. One of them is a Daley appointee to a planning committee. Another’s a caterer. It sure doesn’t make any sense a caterer wouldn’t be getting tickets when parked in that yellow zone.
So, once we’ve solidly ID-ed the car’s owner, we can then work on the mystery of why this person’s being protected from getting tickets.
Then, it’s a matter of figuring out who else is getting this kind of protection.
And what system is in place within Chicago city government to carry out this protection.
This could actually be much, much bigger than one silver Beemer consistently parked illegally in Boystown.
Or, it could end up being this was the luckiest guy in the whole wide world until we happened to notice what he was getting away with for so long.
Either way, we need your help to solve the mystery once and for all.
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It’s a mystery that needs to be solved. I’m on it. Joe Lake, Bucktown
You guys PLEASE be careful. You are trying to upset some long standing apple carts. Don’t stop doing it, just be careful.
Busted! You guys are like Angie Dickinson in Police Woman. Today, you are PepperBuzz.
You guys are great! Don’t tell us how you did it but be very careful.
Uh, for the record, this vehicle has been ticketed 30 times since November 2007…mostly for parking outside a metered space. 12 tickets were paid, 18 were dismissed.
The most recent ticket in the database being issued in mid-December 2009.
Five months without a ticket would be a record for Mr. Davis…
Chicago parking ticket database: https://parkingtickets.cityofchicago.org/CPSWeb/web/SearchTickets.jsp
Also, one of Sidetrack’s more entertaining bartenders is Edward Davis….he’s also the caterer mentioned above.
Curiouser and curiouser.
OT, I read last year there is some really funny (funny strange not funny ha ha) payoff stuff going on the Chicago water department… Eg whole buildings getting free water if they go along w/the Daley regime.
I have no proof, but if you are into sleuthing the Chicago corruption this year: just a tip.
The Obama outing saga is heating up: http://tinyurl.com/37nxzc9
Forget the birth certificate for now …I’d rather see a list of Man’s Country members. Oh yeah, and how do I get one of those “no ticket” license plates?
Love this to be headline news everywhere. The lies and cover-ups continue.
Question. So if Ed Davis turns out to be a chief bottle washer somewhere…Could it be like all those signs that were put up at intersections looking for a real estate apprentice?
that was the loan-fraud scam where for a set fee you give out your id info, like soc security number, fico, name etc so another can use it to apply for a loan for a house.
So say someone who likes a nice ride but also likes his privacy AND easy parking unofficially contracts with someone to put a car in their name?
or
some poor schmuck doesnt even realize this cool car is in his name?
As farfetched as it sounds it IS chicago, land of flimflam, capital of razzle, dazzle and crafty people. shoot sounds like there is a large group of people there when offered two alternative choices, one legal and on the straight and narrow and the other illegal and more crooked than a DNA spiral, they would choose the crooked just for fun and practice.
Good luck everyone!
Why is it that every Google hit for that address seems to somehow involved the former GM of Gentry, a piano bar that once occupied Scarlet’s space? The name of the now-deceased former owner of Gentry? David Edwards.
Love the sleuthing. Bring those bass-turd corruptocrats down.
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http://tinyurl.com/296hs3n
Could it be this Ed Davis, from E-Democracy.org, speaking at CityCampChicago 2010?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehtgi0GB5k&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Ed first appears at 1:16.
Scratch that. I think this guy is from MN. Will search a bit more.
Then again, this Ed Davis guy is a city planner.
HB: Maybe go directly to the source to find out? This is from the City of Chicago Web site:
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HB: Maybe go directly to the source to find out? This is from the City of Chicago Web site:
File a Mayor’s Office FOIA Request
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a state law that provides citizens with access to public records. Each City department is a separate agency responsible for maintaining its own records, so requests should be submitted to the department that maintains the records you want.
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Fax: 312.744.8045
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Chicago, IL 60602
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Would a delegate to the DNC and a dude appointed by Mayor Daley to be Chariman of the Zoning department of Chicago get free parking?
There is an Ed Davis on face book that works at sidetracks. Do you know him?
Is the car parked anywhere near sidetracks? Sorry I am not familiar enough with that area of town any more.
Oops, didn’t see your post. Great minds think alike
Sidetrack is 2 blocks away from where the car is parked.
Ed Davis the caterer is also a bartender at Sidetrack on Halsted. He has a facebook page. Does bartending (and catering) enable you to earn a gold BMW and a free parking pass from the city? Maybe the City Planner is a better bet.
Go to this link https://parkingtickets.cityofchicago.org/CPSWeb/web/SearchTickets.jsp
and type in the plate with no spaces- X550474
Use the last name of Davis
Check out all the parking tickets this guy is able to get “dismissed”.
Wow, good work. What is interesting is there are no tickets dismissed or paid for year 2010; last one on list 12/19/2009.
Nice work, Jim!
motley, I noticed that, too. So…tickets were being issued, with most of them being ‘dismissed’ and just a handful ‘paid’ up until that date.
Then, something happened, and an exemption status, or whatever it is, was issued so they no longer even issue tickets.
I find it curious that this driver would park it in such a conspicuous space.
Curiouser and curiouser…
Might be interesting if we can find out who the judge is that dismisses all these tickets. And the lawyer. There has got to be a lot of paperwork behind all of this.
Wonder if some gay political operative or crony is getting perks for having sex with the right male politicians.
interesting. maybe a male pol is parking in gay town so he can have sex and not worry about tickets. fast and free access to some ass.
In the comments on the SCC blog for this story, one of the commenters tells how to look up the tickets for this vehicle by license number/last name….it is unbelieveable how many tickets have been dismissed for this person! Here’s the comment:
Go to this link https://parkingtickets.cityofchicago.org/CPSWeb/web/SearchTickets.jsp
and type in the plate with no spaces- X550474
Use the last name of Davis
Check out all the parking tickets this guy is able to get “dismissed”.
Here’s another Ed Davis. First photo down on left.
http://www.primetimersww.org/chicago/Herald%202010-04.pdf
Here’s another. Might be iffy, but one never knows these days.
……appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to serve as Chairman of the Zoning Department for the City of Chicago.
http://www.stjohnmbc.org/index.php/dr-a-edward-davis-jr/aboutpastor
the address seems to be condos or apartments. Soooo stymied there.
However real estate transactions are public. go down to the courthouse and lookup the address and follow the titles. unless of course he rents. if it is ‘him’.
I have had alot of fun tonite tooling around looking and poking. It was a slow night at work.
I even wound up looking through the pdf files for the chicago public school system supppliers. (yes it WAS that slow at work
) Wowza! what a fertile field for graft and corruption if i ever saw one! Wacker st alone is represented big time! Chicago caterers get a honking big payout too, and also boston’s Au Bon Pan as well.
Although shred-it at over 20k was amusing. Buy a tux was pretty neato too at over 10k. C.A.I.R.s did well too at over 100k. chicago gift and souvenir of 2002 at almost 25k was funny too. sigh. then beg and beg for more money cuz ‘its for the children’.
Turns out a neighbor addy may be someone you may have crossed paths with professionally. perhaps he would know which apt /who is the free parker
sorry forgot to ask are you familiar with a bar called Gentry? Seems to be closed now.
Thanks, RJS. How about some props on the Gentry lead?
Here’s a nifty photo for you Hillbuzz!
Me-chelle vs. Shrek?
Ho, ho, ho…Green Giant???
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Oh my gag! Thanks for the link to the First Thong. I posted it over at Cripes Suzette (w/a hat tip to a “kindly poster at HillBuzz).
OMG. Check out Dr. U’s expression as he looks at her disaster! Now we need a pic of another president looking admiringly at their wife/first lady.
I am just about 99% convinced she is color blind.
I thought there were only two points to thongs, and they were not only age-specific but pretty much age-exlusive too.
first if you are young and hot…thongs for the flash and enticement.
Second, if you are older and not so, um, eye-fresh, it is to avoid VPL. that is it, that is all, that is the whole shebang…to avoid panty lines.
WHY CANT EVEN HER HUSBAND TELL HER SHE LOOKS LIKE A RAGBAG LEFTOVER BOBOLI?
Its like when someone has a booger hanging from the nostril…if you really loved them you would tell them.
Same rules for clothing, especially if it truly heinous and DOUBLE DOG IMPORTANT if you know there are going to be pictures taken…tell your SO the clothes suck BEFORE the pics are taken and released into the wild.
What is she wearing, as my kids call them, “mom pants” for? I am near the fifty mark, wear skirts, and my kids said if I were to wear pants I had not embarrass them and wear “mom pants”. In other words, it is the low waist stuff in style. So much for fashion on the first girl (can’t bring myself to say lady)
BLUE SHOES??? I don’t get it.
Oy. What a mess! That ‘top’ is begging for a ‘Who wore it better’ trashing.
She’s even got the girls’ hair pulled back in those little buns. Is she too freakin’ lazy to spend five minutes brushing and styling it?
At least the little one put on a hairband.
And what’s going on with BO’s pants? They’re all rumpled and clinging to his legs. Ick!
Did he sleep in them?
And where’s Bo, the family ‘pet’?
Remember when W and Laura travelled, he’d always carry Barney onto the plane with him.
Sigh…
GACK!!!!!
I’m old enough to remember Jackie Kennedy during the days of JFK’s presidency. Even when Jackie went casual up at Hyannis Port, she’d never, ever, ever leave the bedroom, much less the house, in that get-up. And it’s for darn certain someone would have whispered something in her ear about “pantie lines.”
Man, that woman has no sense of style–or color–at all, does she? And those VPL–yikes! O looks irritated at his wife and kids taking so long.
Why doesn’t she just put on a hat that isn’t a baseball cap? That stupid pony tail is butt-ugly [no pun intended]
Nice underwear, by the way.
I saw the blue shoes, too!
Certainly no Jackie O or Barbara Bush.
i’d love to know whay that serviceman by the plane, who’s at attention is thinking!
oops, not a plane, its a truck..
Pants are just a tad too long to be capris and too short to be pants.
Butt Cleavage
Thong outline
and yes
BLUE SHOES.
Plus she’s slouching and has her hair in a ratty pony tail.
I’m saving this to post anytime some left idiot calls her a fashion icon.
We call that ” Butt ugly from head to toe”. I’ve thrown away better looking clothes than that after a garage sale. Looks like that’s where she does her shopping…which is also called Dumpster Diving. She is the most classless person to ever live in the WH. I am so glad I didn’t vote for this dopey duo. Never even considered it. He is not, repeat not, my President. And shame on the clueless idiots who put this sham of a president in office. May they be the first to suffer from his stupidity and arrogance. Let’s take out the trash every chance we have to vote..both local and federal.
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That picture of the first ” whatever” just about caused me to upchuck. Please post some type of warning before posting any similar picture. Thanks!
Didn’t some clown who interviewed d’ohbama say that he “just knew” barry was “presidential material” when he saw the perfect crease in his pants?
It looks as though barry is still wearing that *same* pair of pants (since ’08) from the wrinkles and the way the knees are all blasted out. Does he own more than one suit? Is there anybody in the white house laundry who can iron a pair of pants?
The man looks like a bum.
Not to mention that his shoes could use a shine.
All in all, a disappointing excuse for a “first family”.
That PCC (“Polite Company Conservative”) you are thinking of is David Brooks of the NY Times (Warning: have your barf bag handy):
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-courtship
Here’s a excerpt from that little ditty: “That first encounter (with Dr Utopia) is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.”
I think that was David Brooks who was all gaga about the crease in the pants.
I hate to say it–oh, not really–but you can take the girl out of the ghetto…
Oh, no you din’t!=)
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Mystery Solved – Sort Of
Hillbuzz is having a field day with this one.
The registered owner info popped up there, here and a couple of other blogs. TheExpiredMeter opines this might be a mistake – there is no signage designating a “No Parking Zone,” but the yellow line on the curb is usually indicative of some sort of restriction (distance from hydrant, crosswalk, etc.) Now here’s another twist:
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Th rest is at http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
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Also more at http://theexpiredmeter.com/?p=6223