Posted on 07/16/2021 11:15:22 AM PDT by simpson96
Determined to convince tech companies to trade in views of the Golden Gate Bridge for the City of Big Shoulders, Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent Wednesday and Thursday wooing Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, even as the city reeled from the most violent weekend of 2021.
Touting her administration’s efforts to “build the most diverse tech economy in the country” in Chicago, Lightfoot met with leaders of Uber Freight and Salesforce in San Francisco Thursday. The two tech firms announced plans to expand their operations in Chicago before the COVID-19 pandemic up-ended the U.S. economy.
“We have no indication that it is anything but full-steam ahead,” Lightfoot said. “I feel very good about the conversations we had today.”
Describing herself as Chicago’s “advocate-in-chief,” Lightfoot also met with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, presided over a roundtable of venture capital leaders and planned to host a reception Thursday evening.(snip)
The “best and most effective” long-term solution to the violence plaguing Chicago is to grow jobs and opportunities for residents of all neighborhoods, Lightfoot said.
But in the short term, Lightfoot said she was hopeful that a federal strike force — set to arrive in Chicago by the end of July — would tamp down the violence that swept the South and West sides, wounding more than 100 people and killing 18 people.
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Politicians honestly believe that if you give someone a basketball or a job, they will stop selling crack.
Crack is much more profitable.
Let ‘em leave.
SF native here (and still live kind of close); the city is way too overcrowded. Can’t build ‘up’ because of earthquakes and potential liquifaction, can’t build out, there’s no where to do it. And as shitty as it seems to be these days, more and more people want to live here (SMH).
California needs to lose about 10-15 million people just to have enough water and electrical power.
This seems to be a case of inducing a leap from frying pan to fire.
Not even the crazy homeless people in SF would be stupid enough to fall for this.
I will say that in my 35 years in the Chicago area, there was only one tiny notable quake. And there was always plenty of increasingly expensive water.
You would have to be stupid or insane to even visit Chicongo.
We lived in One of the FINEST neighborhoods of Chicago between Lake Michigan and Michigan Ave. In Streeterville wher Oprah lived a block away....you couldn’t PAY me to move back now and we had a FABULOUS LIFESTYLE there.
10-15 million?
Easy, just deport illegal aliens.
Lightfoot to San Fran Nan:
“Yeah, we may be the murder capitol of the world. But at least our streets aren’t strewn with trash, feces and used needles.”
Death by fecal-transmitted diseases or by gunfire and arson?
Chicago University student Max Lewis was unavailable for comment.
He was killed by a “stray” bullet riding the subway home last week.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973850/posts?q=1&;page=1
Imagine that ugly weird looking psycho trying to woo someone. Cringe.
Video news report
Report: Chicago Gang Members Now Outnumber Police 10 to 1…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/471967-report-chicago-gang-members-now-outnumber-police-10-to-1/
Yeah, come to Chicago and commit financial suicide.
Sound like something concocted by the Bee. It’s a stretch, but I guess there are some stupid enough to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
Moving from San Francisco to Chicago is akin to jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
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