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The downtown office vacancy rate ticked up during the first quarter to an all-time high of 28.6% from 28.2% at the end of 2025. The share of available workspace in Chicago’s urban core is up from 26.5% a year ago and 13.8% when the COVID-19 pandemic began, having now hit new record highs for 15 consecutive quarters. But competition is stiff for large spaces in prime buildings.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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A no-brainer: Do unchecked crime and anti-business policies have anything to do with this staggeringly high office vacancy rate?
First, where are the workers go that used to occupy the offices? They’re not in the suburbs because suburban vacancies are at all time highs too; and
Secondly, how will they ever get the missing workers to return downtown?
In short, downtown Chicago is totally screwed.
JB Pritzker and Mayor 6.6, “We did that!”
Lori did this.
At the end of Lightfoot’s administration, sitting at a table of clueless family liberals, who at least had the decency to admit what a disaster she was, I said to them: it’ll be interesting to see how the Left rewards her , one asked me: why would they reward her? I told them that the Left rewards their own for the destruction they cause to our free society, America and our way of life in the advancement of Communism. Again, they all dismissively smirked at me like a right-wing nut. Lo and behold, a few weeks later it was announced… Read more »
If only conservatives rewarded their own like Democrats. At best, our conservative thought leaders get a podcast which they then immediately use to rail on Trump.
Leave it to the DNC apologist Danny Ecker to dutifully provide a ‘but’ to soften the tone of his feeble effort at journalism. Years of TDS-infused Democrat “leadership” has brought Chicago to its knees. How long before JB the Hutt starts begging Illinois expatriates to return so they can be hit with The Hutt’s tax and spend regimen? The Hutt’s trust fund money remains safe from confiscation by Illinois political animals by its offshore depository. The rest of the chumbolones’ funds are not so duplicitously safe. Thus the exodus. Crain’s has been a cheerleader for Illinois political animals for decades,… Read more »
Hmmmm, very interesting. Nobody cares enough to even comment on this article. It’s not so curious as to what all that means to Cook County taxpayers. They’ll reap that harvest in spades. I get the sense that the people that still live there have just acquiesced to their status as tax slaves to the ruling demfilth elite. It’s just who they are.
Bingo, though some may not have had access because of paywall. That may depend on how many Crain’s articles you click for the month.