would drive people away in a blieted corner and crime and things like that drive people out of e ighborhood. but having another busi there does not drive people away. the other thing that i want to talk about is this business about the 20 percent. and i also wins when they say it was unanimous and i thought that i could not have voted for that but i did because i was assured by the staff that the commissioners could vote otherwise if they felt that the benefits of the particular proposal out weighed the 20 percent, but now, as i look at it more, i think that it is really a poor matrix to use. i still believe that you have to look at the entire district from octavia to castro and see what kind of a concentration of formula retail you have when making a decision not just a real isolated area and it is even worse in this enstance because a lot of it is parking lot, and a lot of it is unused space, and so, it looks a lot worse than it really is in terms of the concentration. one speaker brought up the point that she felt that there was a huge concentration of formula retail within the entire di

john: many people left ighborhoods like these because there are so few basic services. , 11 in the ambulance> the reality is tt pick themselves up and put themselves in their cars to take them to the austral. john: said amidst thearbage and abandoned property there is life. >> you see this house, nice motorcycle of front. how does this person and i? >> two things. they have hope. to, they like their neighborhood john: they found a home owner. >> empty lots and and the houses across the street. what keeps you here? >> well, i want to stay here in the city. i'm here. >> to you ever worry about what happens in the empty houses and whether or not people are going to come aft your stuff? >> i kind of keep the lot cut, closed doors on the abandoned houses, stuff like that. >> to keep an eye on them. >> you have to >> to use to have neighbors. >> yes. >> people just -- >> they moved out. john: and this was typical of what you saw. >> it was neighborhood after neighborhood. nice trees with nice homes and then a block away it was these abandoned, bned out homes they were being devoured by the earth.

the police and folks across the ighborhood quickly organized a search. tamar boggs and chris garcia set out on their bikes with other friends and when the boys spotted a suspicious car wandering through their development they checked it out and saw the young girl inside. they relentlessly chased the driver on their bikes for 15 furious minutes, recognizing that the boys wouldn't give up, the man let jocelyn out of the car and drove away. she immediately ran to the boys asking for her mother. they safely brought her back home, and while they may not think of themselves as heroes, they certainly are. thanks to tamar and chris, jocelyn is home and the suspect is now in custody. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so recognized. >> i rise today to speak about the terrible fire earlier this week that destroyed much of the own of prophetstown, illinois. a