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Illinois home prices, especially in the Chicago area, appreciated at the slowest pace in the nation last year, growing just below the rate of inflation. One of the fastest-growing areas in the nation, according to a new report, was right next door to Illinois.
The in-flow of Chicagoans is one of the key reasons behind the Gary area’s 7.9 percent increase in home prices year-over-year, according to an analysis of home price indices from the third quarter of 2019 by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, higher than all but six areas nationwide.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
Gary is hot for two reasons: The first is Chicagoans from the south side are moving a few miles east over the border into Indiana because it’s cheaper and has less crime. Secondly, that Miller Beach summer home area is pretty hot too. So between the two, yeah, Gary is coming back strong.
…and Dems will tell you the 2 are unrelated. They must think 100% of Illinois residents are fools when it’s more like 60%.