Posted on 09/28/2015 6:58:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chicago’s Loop hums with life and commerce today. A parade of companies, including Kraft and Motorola, has moved from the suburbs into the central business district. The greater downtown apartment market is booming, with thousands of new units being constructed. Chicago hotels will add 2,200 new hotel rooms this year to accommodate throngs of tourists. The city has rolled out new amenities and attractions, including an enhanced Riverwalk along the once-polluted Chicago River, and Maggie Daley Park, a fantasy-like playground that replaced the forlorn Daley Bicentennial Plaza section of Grant Park. Also opening this year: a long-anticipated elevated rail trail and a new nature preserve on Northerly Island.
With so much civic and commercial activity, Chicago seems to be going from strength to strength. Sipping wine on the Riverwalk while watching the architectural tour boats cruise by, one struggles to reconcile Chicago’s seeming vitality with headlines such as, FIVE REASONS CHICAGO IS IN WORSE SHAPE THAN DETROIT.
That seems preposterous, considering Detroit’s recent bankruptcy, not to mention its largely empty, windswept streets, abandoned buildings, and mile upon mile of so-called “urban prairie.” Most cities would kill for Chicago’s level of urban growth. But despite its many advantages—including America’s second-largest central business district, several elite universities, and a major regional airport—the Windy City is a fiscal basket case.
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Theft by the Dems, the Mob, and the Unions.
3 terms for the same group.
Socialism,Union deals that are unworkable and an moron for a mayor.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
It can look good until you run out of other people’s money.
Or, it can continue plundering the productive while exterminating the unproductive useless eaters unfit for their utopia.
By using the power of the federal, state and local governments to extort earned wealth from the declining number of producers.
Eliminate that and what is left of America’s great cities would be depopulated in less than one year.
Until the middle class is completely destroyed and there isn’t any more wealth to steal most cities are doomed to become not much more than government run holding pens for liberal victim groups kept alive on government handouts.
A LOT of federal (our) money has found its way to Chicago during the Obama reign of error.
Northerly Island, formerly Meigs Field until it was bulldozed by Mayor Richard M. Daley in the middle of the night to avoid the required 30 day notice.
They ran out of ‘Other Peoples’ Money’ to give to people who didn’t contribute..............................
BFL
By being profligate. You can have a marvelous job and still live beyond your means and end up in piper-paying mode.
The fact that the people of Chicago keep electing gangsters for Mayor, might have something to do with it.
And GOP.
Liberal Rauner is part of the infamous Combine.
IL is the Haiti of America - every one steals and looks the other way.
Until there was nothing nailed down left to loot.
It would benefit you far greater than for us to just tell you.
Here's a few words for you to familiarize yourself with to get started; Unions, Pensions, DemocRATS.
Democrats.
Yes, the city was robbed blind under the Daley administration. Right up until the moment he left too. One of his last acts was to sell decades of future revenues from parking meters to a private company for a quick cash infusion.
Sections/factions of the same group, yes.
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