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Business owner flees Chicago crime chaos: 'Employees are being held up'
Fox News ^ | April 19, 2023 | Maria Lencki

Posted on 04/20/2023 9:19:54 AM PDT by lowbridge

A Chicago business owner says he is fleeing the crime-infested city because leaders are "supporting anarchy" and he "can't put up with it any longer." 

"Our employees are being held up for their wallets and their phones at gunpoint," Rabine Group founder Gary Rabine told "America Reports" on Wednesday. "It's just not worth it anymore, the danger. You know, we are very safety-oriented company, and we can't put up with it any longer." 

Rabine, who has built business in the Chicago area for over 40 years, says his customers and employees do not want to live in the Windy City anymore. 

"It's a terrible place to be and we've got a governor and a mayor and a future mayor in the city who are promoting this anarchy," he said. "If you watch the messaging from our governor and from the past mayor, and even more so the new mayor, it's all about, you know, basically reparations, right? It's okay to rob and pillage and steal. You're not going to get in any trouble, and it's just a great form of reparations in the mindset of this new mayor and the governor has done nothing to stop either." 

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"This anarchy is not going to stop as long as we have terrible leaders like Brandon Johnson, J.B. Pritzker and Lori Lightfoot," he said. "It will not change. It's only going to get worse...I have family members and loved ones that live in the city. They all want out and are getting out, great employees across my companies...will rather be in any state in the country than Illinois. This was never the case five years ago and back. There's an urgent issue here of change. It's not going to happen, unfortunately, with terrible leadership that we have."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; chicago; crime; dystopia
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To: pierrem15

It was also young white hipsters and professionals in north side enclaves towards the Lake, like Edgewater and Andersonville, that backed Johnson.


41 posted on 04/20/2023 10:44:03 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: MichaelRDanger

I point the finger squarely at white liberal women. They have zero wisdom. They equate ‘feels good’ with morally good, without any ability to consider the downstream consequences. They’re also the single most group-think demographic.

Democrats ruined the nuclear family in black communities and white liberal women have destroyed morality everywhere else.

The whole ‘trans’ topic, now being pushed onto kids, even without parental consent or notification, makes us a society of ‘us vs. them’ as we’re not compatible. We cannot live together as a society. I will not tolerate the State harming children in the name of some perverse ‘good’. They will not relent. If we want to protect children we’ll have only one choice.


42 posted on 04/20/2023 10:47:24 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: M1903A1

Toss in Evanston, home of Northwestern University, which hired Bernadine Dohrn, the “wife” of one of the leading radicals to teach as a professor after she was denied admission to the Illinois State Bar. Evanston routinely votes 90 percent left and is nowheres near majority minority.


43 posted on 04/20/2023 11:04:27 AM PDT by laconic
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To: blackdog

The African afro centric “American” boys are just regressing to tribal life. With the failures in law, the boys wanna get jiggy. That’s what’s worked in Africa since BOT and we see the progress Africa made for itself.
Nobody taught history to these louts, nor did they want to learn Whiteman history cuzz that’s whitey shit and weese black. shit. All the asses need to do is study the progress of Africa.

They should try to be Americans first or go home to the Congo.

Better yet, back to Liberia.
The home of the first reparations payment.


44 posted on 04/20/2023 11:11:54 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: TheBattman

And I’m a Somalia veteran. Mogadishu was truly a mad-max level hellhole. Back in 1993 you could murder someone in the street and there was zero functioning government. The US has followed the mog-model


45 posted on 04/20/2023 11:27:55 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: pierrem15

Nice theory - but the reality is - the Leftists are firmly in control of the ChiCongo... and the majority there support the leadership. Denial doesn’t change that. Suspicious (fraud) voter turnout doesn’t change it - just change the order of magnitude.


46 posted on 04/20/2023 11:35:37 AM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: M1903A1
True: but I still think it's clear that Vallas would have won except for the ballot stuffing. Out of control crime was the #1 issue, and now it's clear that he think paying felons off with phony government "jobs" is the way to reduce crime.

This will mean, of course, more diversion of funds to left-wing activists. This is the model for the US, by the way: vote fraud, billionaire bucks like Soros and Zuckerberg, and diversion of public funds to leftist activists will create a revolutionary cadre who will control the state just as thoroughly as Lenin did using troops and the Cheka.

We will have to kill these people to get rid of them.

47 posted on 04/20/2023 11:38:56 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: TheBattman

The elections are rigged ….that is why people do not vote…


48 posted on 04/20/2023 11:52:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Red Badger

Yep.

L


49 posted on 04/20/2023 11:52:52 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: TheBattman

Vallas represented the old Chicago machine. Hardly a beacon of liberty, but considerably better than Johnson. Despotic as it was, the preferred technique of the machine was jawboning and bribery with a little coercion, in exchange for which the city worked. Now we will get simple coercion, complete lack of civic services, and completely out of control criminality. All of the above will be met with just more taxes and more coercion. In 20 years Chicago will be Detroit with a better view.


50 posted on 04/20/2023 11:57:35 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: himno hero
Not into the rough, but Africa can be summed up in one example. In attempting to energize the continent with electricity and telecommunications wires, the amount of cables strung each day would be stripped and stolen for scrap every night.

Eventually the utilities gave up.

Que Chicago and our Democrat run cities. Same circumstances, only at a retail level.

51 posted on 04/20/2023 12:06:43 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: Redleg Duke

The white liberals of Chicago and Illinois also bear a major portion of responsibility for the 3rd world status of Sh*tcago and Hellinois. They voted for the people who promoted and still promote this behavior. I have no sympathy for them.

I have relatives in Pekin, Illinois and have asked them repeatedly when they plan to escape that imprisoned state. Their response, when I retire, maybe. They about died when I told them what I paid in taxes for 5 acres of land, and a 2400 square foot house, $1500 a year. I told them my brother lives in Knox county TN area and his house is comparable to mine and he pays even less.


52 posted on 04/20/2023 12:45:40 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: TheBattman
 
 
Chicago is America’s Mogadishu...
 
Not the only such place. Lots of little Mogadishus popping up, not just in the big metro areas. Circumstances are settling in all over to make that happen. Gonna be where you'll have to practice head on a swivel almost everywhere.
 
 

53 posted on 04/20/2023 1:16:44 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: pierrem15
 
 
diversion of funds to left-wing activists
 
Ah yes, to divvy up among various inside committees and do-nothing offices on the inside and NGOs on the outside, never intending to fix any problem but administrate the chaos and decline while turning a steady insider profit. There's the oncoming threat of other places adopting the same corrupt strategies. We're all slowly getting caught up in a hard spot between the treacherous and the stupid.
 
 

54 posted on 04/20/2023 1:23:28 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: frank ballenger
Dems have a high tolerance level (and full hypocrisy) for supporting Dem candidates again and again while whining at the water cooler about how their daughter was carjacked, they were mugged and their house was robbed.

That's because they will still blame Republicans for everything, every time. Doesn't matter if there isn't a single Republican in office anywhere in the state. As long as a Republican exists somewhere, it's his fault.
55 posted on 04/20/2023 1:35:01 PM PDT by fr_freak
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