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"Every major city is grappling with Covid's economic aftereffects, but in Chicago, the departures sharpened the focus on longstanding problems that predated the pandemic...Most of its challenges long predate Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is seeking a second term early next year, but business and political leaders as well as residents are looking to her for leadership and urgency to steer the city’s course."
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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The article misses why Chicago hasn’t recovered: Suburbanites no longer want to commute forty-five minutes to an hour each way to get downtown. The rest of Chicago’s recent problems stem from that. Chicago was unique in that we funneled upwards of 1,000,000 per day from far flung suburbs into the loop using trains, buses, cars, helicopters, bikes, and walking. Now we don’t want to do that any more, or maybe just one or two days a week, like my spouse. I don’t ever go downtown anymore, and everyone I know that used to go downtown, no longer goes downtown, and… Read more »