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Illinois, the largest U.S. soybean producer, may have the biggest storage shortfall, needing as much as 100 million bushels for storing crops.
Comment: Note the link to the candidate questionnaire in which Pritzker said he supports an amendment to the Illinois Constitution to end gerrymandering by changing the redistricting process to create a nonpartisan commission tasked with drawing Illinois legislative maps. Let’s see if he performs.
While Illinois J.B. Pritzker’s election as Illinois signals a likely end to budget gridlock, municipal investors are less certain of the prospects for curing the state’s deep fiscal ailments.
Comment: Note the call for a constitutional amendment on pensions. You will be hearing more from us on that soon. “The ultimate solution may involve a constitutional amendment—a politically risky maneuver, but one that no longer seems unfeasible now that the governor’s party will enjoy a supermajority in the House and control of the Senate…. It makes it much harder to pin the blame elsewhere when things go wrong.”
This is the story of how one small town became trapped in a downward spiral that poverty experts say follows a well-worn pattern of deindustrialization that leads to a disenfranchised economic class.
The focus is Dolton, but it just as easily could be Riverdale, Harvey, Dixmoor, Posen, Calumet City or other nearby suburbs that once were powered by steel and other industry but over time slowly coalesced into a broad swath of economic distress. In other parts of Illinois, such as North Chicago to the north or Maywood to the west, the details change but the problems are often much
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