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The post went viral on Instagram, showing city salt trucks parking end-to-end along a city street, with the video’s caption saying there was a “wall of trucks, moving slow, making it clear: ICE isn’t welcome here.” But that isn’t the case, and the video in the post shows city salt trucks blocking off a section of Grant Park hosting the Taste of Chicago. City trucks have for years been used to enable barriers around major events including the taste and Lollapalooza.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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If a city is willfully keeping illegal immigrants in this country, the state should take over to enforce federal law. If the state is unwilling to do so, the feds should take over. Seems pretty straightforward. I consider myself a humane person, but some of the previous administrations allowed an awful situation to materialize by allowing millions of illegal immigrants to cross our borders. Now that some of the blue states have decided not to work with the federal government to remedy this situation, enforcement will be much harder. Of course, those blue states will blame the feds for any… Read more »
Escalation of rhetoric and street theater is not working. Shutting down the government won’t work. Trump is playing hardball and Dems can barely field softball amateurs. It’s Israel vs Hamas and all a tired opposition can do is to deplore. Better for all if Pritzker retires to an oversize recliner and the Dems regroup without their woke clown faction.
Never mind the trucks. ICE doesn’t stand a chance against global warming. All real scientists agree. The debate on that is over.