The Kenosha area is so near that there’s a lot of potential for Illinois job-seekers and suppliers.

And the benefits Illinois derives from Wisconsin’s deal comes without having to pay out a reported $3 billion in incentives.

“When you need that many people and a company ramps up as fast as Foxconn intends, it will be difficult for Wisconsin to meet all of their needs,” Peterson said. “The reality is, it’s a pretty short trip for people (who live) in Lake and McHenry counties, or even Cook. We have a lot of people that

Comment: Senate President John Cullerton says he won’t send the school funding bill to Rauner for his amendatory veto, which will have to be negotiated and voted on, until Monday. Why not now? Because.

Comment: Almost nobody knows where the dogs are buried in this bill, a monstrosity of unknown proportions, as we called it in our own article linked here. The few who may know can’t be trusted.

“Wisconsin is about to shell out as much as $3 billion for the privilege of luring Foxconn Technology Group. At $519 per citizen, it would have been cheaper to buy an iPhone for every man, woman and child in the midwestern state.”

Madigan, Martwick and Mautino are cogs in a well-oiled political machine that continues to enrich Illinois’ political class at the expense of taxpayers.