“I too only go into the city a couple of times a year.”
Before I retired four years ago my office was in downtown Chicago, in the Loop (I live 25 miles west of that, and I took the train in to work). I haven’t been to the city since the day I retired, and I have absolutely no intention of ever setting foot in Chicago again.
Out here, outside of Cook County, the town I live in is fairly conservative (when we bought our house here more than 25 years ago it was very conservative, but liberals fleeing the mess they voted for in Chicago have been moving out my way and trying to turn my village blue: Damn them all to hell!).
liberals fleeing the mess they voted for in Chicago
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The more liberal they are the quicker they leave. I’ve witnessed this phenomena before in another blue state during the school busing era. The libs who supported busing were the first ones out of the affected communities.
DuPage County here. I left my job in the City in January. It would take a phenomenal amount of money to get me to return to that crap hole on the lake.
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Sounds like you live in Belvidere.