Posted on 08/18/2020 6:59:03 PM PDT by george76
With the last effects of Chicago’s looting sprees, it’s a tense time near the Loop and the Magnificent Mile, not only for the businesses that were hit but also for everyone who lives and works in the city. Now more problems could leave people to leave these neighborhoods.
The city’s second ward alderman said he knows many people are on the edge and poised to leave, but it wouldn’t mean just empty units or storefronts. A mass exodus could gut Chicago’s tax base, causing a citywide ripple effect.
Drive onto the Mag Mile and at first all seems normal. Keep driving, and you’ll notice it’s anything but. Chicago police cars are parked everywhere — blue lights flashing. Stores are still boarded up. It’s all a response to two rounds of looting
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“If it happens a third time, people who are just hanging onto a belief that downtown is still a place to live and shop are going to give up,” said Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd). “We’re going to lose people. They’re going to move. We’re already seeing that start to happen.”
The city’s Second Ward includes the northern part of the Mag Mile, but it’s not just residents bailing that concerns him. It’s the potential for businesses to bail, too. He points out his ward and one other bring in about 40% of the city’s property tax revenue every year.
“If that dries up we really have no way to replace it,”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Round up all the White People, take their jewelry and possessions, and pull their gold teeth.
Just as the Left wanted it, Political "White Flight".
That's it. Their systemic racism has to go. And their money based on slave exploitation. Michelle O will tell you.
Majority black cities like Detroit (78.6%) and Jackson (73.87%) and Inkster (73.02%) in Michigan are largely like boarded up post war slums in some Third World country following a change of dictators. Special downtown Detroit sports arenas and nearby office skyscrapers are exceptions. No one decent would invest in a retail store outside of there.
Leads To Concerns???
Just now???
Concerns????
Geez, lost hope, folks.
I had some fun with Otter Pops this morning.
Got the idiot who posted the Tweet fired. Their HQ is about 9 miles from here. They didn’t think having a veteran standing in front of their building with an “Otter Pops Hates Cops” sign would be good for business.
All that before 0815.
Not a bad day.
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hey CBS, tuff chit!
Thanks for that image. Anybody got a spare jug of Mind Bleach?
Sadly this cancer will spread where ever they end up
“Anyone who voted for the Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to leave, eat your own dogshit.”
Agreed!!
You are badass!
Good and hard.
You got that right!! Next door neighbor in Marietta, Ga. is a Chicago transplant. She’s the most rabid, committed liberal I’ve ever met.
Not really. I’m just sick of this shit and I won’t take any more.
You should be too.
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“Except that dems are the only ones on the ballot. The news only supports dems.”
Yes. It’s like going to a restaurant where the only thing on the menu is fermented rat feces.
I am not the first to observe that liberals are a special kind of stupid.
Try mole repellant.
Yes, I understand; and I am concerned, not to mention deeply troubled and dismayed, that things in that Rat hole are not deteriorating at a faster pace.
And they never can figure out what went wrong, either.
Great!!!
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