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“Crime has gone through the roof in Chicago and in certain parts of your state,” Trump said. “Your governor has done a horrible, horrible job. Already this year there have been over — listen to this; this is not even believable — already this year, there have been over 24,000 crimes in Chicago alone: 24,000! How would that be possible?”
“First and foremost, respect the taxpayer. Start losing taxpayers and it’s a downward spiral from there.” Illinois politicians aren’t heeding that advice. Now their failures are pushing out the state’s wealthiest resident. Ken Griffin is moving to Florida and he’s taking his company, Citadel, with him.
So here we are. Illinois is now more equal. And poorer. The political establishment has one less opponent to worry about. The planet indeed evolves, as Griffin’s wing at the Field Museum shows. Just not always for the better.
Ted joined Brian Barnhart on WDWS Radio’s Penny for Your Thoughts to talk about the poor education results in Champaign and Urbana’s public schools. In Champaign, 54% of white and just 10% of black 3rd-graders can read at grade level. It’s worse in Urbana – just 28% of white and 6% of black 3rd-graders are reading-proficient.
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