Posted on 12/21/2016 5:56:55 AM PST by KeyLargo
From the title, I thought they were talking about the murder rate in Chicago.
Illinois losing 1 resident every 4.6 minutes
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Just import more immigrants. Mexicans, muslims, whatever.
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Lot of them showing up in west Michigan.
Gee....thanks.
Between high taxes, major crime problems in Chicago and corrupt government, no wonder why people are bailing on Illinois.
Not to defend Illinois, but even without a budget, a $7.8 BILLION deficit and $13.00 minimum wage, business is booming. Illinois ranks 2nd behind Florida in new business start ups according to the Chicago Metro Planning Commission. Drive down I-80 West from the Indiana border to I-55. It is a boom town. Amazon, Wal Mart, Macy’s etc. have built million square foot distribution centers with more to come. Cranes and Bulldozers everywhere along I-80.
Illinois, like California & a few others, make a case for each state using the electoral college system for voting, where each county has the same voting weight as the next.
This would have to be enacted on the state level, and with the lefties in charge, it will never happen.
I’m thinking of Colorado, a couple of years ago where Denver enacted tough gun laws, which causes the outlying counties to suffer. I think the same applies to Illinois.
I’m just happy I live in a red state.
The biggest question is unanswered: where in Illinois are they leaving from? I doubt the migration is even throughout the state.
On the brighter side they get a new illegal every 3 minutes...
Now, they are voting in two states... /s
Looks like there are a few places to go look for voter fraud....
I have to agree with you. I lived there for 5 years in the late 80s and have never met a more miserable group of people in my life. I worked in the hospitality industry in Chicago for 15 years and the front desk staff of the hotel I worked at hated when Minnesotans checked in because all they did was bitch and complain endlessly. Minnesota Nice is a myth.
I was actually in Chicago last summer for 3 or 4 days (it was actually the first time I have been there and been able to take in the sites). Anyways, while I was there, the WSJ happened to write an article on the flight of citizens out of Illinois. They interviewed several middle-classers who basically said it was so expensive to raise a kid, because the public schools are so bad, you are forced to put your kids in private school to get a decent education. Not only that but the property taxes are through the roof. It is easier just to pick up and relocate in another state. And oh yeah...Chicago was looking alot more Latino than I ever remember it.
Did those businesses get crony capitalist sweetheart deals from fed/state/local gov’t to seal the deal for all that expansion?
FWIW, it’s less about where and more about how much. Last stats I saw had people leaving making more than the people replacing them. To the tune of tens of thousands. If still true, that’s a race to the bottom.
FWIW, it’s less about where and more about how much. Last stats I saw had people leaving making more than the people replacing them. To the tune of tens of thousands. If still true, that’s a race to the bottom.
> You may have been speaking with some females residing in Illinois, usually Government school (Indoctrinators),teachers.
Yep. Some were teachers.
Traffic, property and sales taxes, Property values, decreasing wages, crime, red light cameras and ridiculous legislation are some of the reasons that I left Chicago with my family 6 years ago. I had lived there all of my life. Never realized until about 6 months after moving to a beautiful rural community in Missouri that I had a “chip” on my shoulder and my stomach pains were due to stress.
I have learned that people ARE nice and that there is a better way of life than the constant aggravation of living in a big city. My kids can go out and play without worries, neighbors are helpful and caring, traffic is nonexistent and property taxes are much more reasonable.
There are no protesters in our streets, we have the ability to still be friends with our neighbors no matter who they voted for.
I can assume that is the same reason that people are leaving that crummy state. They have just had enough of the nonsense!
I pay $8,800 for a 2500 SF house in Illinois. In Indiana it's about $1500. Dyer and St. John Indiana are looking really good.
High taxes throughout the state, yes. The major crime problems are primarily in Chicago, although Champaign, IL (a college town) has some pretty bad crime problems, as does Aurora.
The political corruption in this state is in every village, municipality, township, county and at the State level. Democrats control the state legislature thanks largely to Mike Madigan, the House Leader and the number of Democrats from Chicago that infest the State Legislature.
I live in Will County which used to be reliably RED, not so much anymore since the last rigged Democrat redistricing which pushed me out of a Republican controlled district into a corrupt Chicago Democrat district with the weirdest borders I've ever seen.
I'm outta here in a few months, heading across the border to Indiana where the property taxes are a fraction of what I pay here and they have a balanced state budget. I sure as hell do NOT want to be here when RINO Republican Bruce Rauner strikes a deal with Mike Madigan to raise the income tax above 6%, which is coming.
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