Chicago poised for comeback, top mayoral advisers say, insisting downtown security top issue for Lightfoot – Chicago Sun-Times*

Said deputy mayor Samir Mayekar, “We’ve been tremendously focused on making sure that we keep downtown, that our commercial corridors are vibrant. But we have been just as focused on making sure that our neighborhood commercial corridors are safe. That they’re vibrant, that we’re promoting equity in how we distribute city resources."
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Hank Scorpio
3 years ago

Don’t call it a comeback, they’ll be like this for years, out-spending its peers, puttin taxpayers in fear

chumpchange
3 years ago
Reply to  Hank Scorpio

Very likely the first time LL has made the Wirepoints comments.

Tom Paine's Ghost
3 years ago

Happytalk from politicians has no relationship to reality.

NoHope4Illinois
3 years ago

Pritzker and Chicago Democrats let the ‘wokeness’ Genie out of the bottle, putting public safety and the economy behind playing partisan politics. It will take a long time to recover, if ever. Democrats seem real good at destroying what took decades to build up. Enjoy the ‘wokeness’ Chicago.

Last edited 3 years ago by NoHope4Illinois
True believer
3 years ago

Lori’s idea of economic development is to throw away more money on ridiculous projects in the south and west sides intended to buy votes to insure her reelection. Wasting money on contact tracers, safe passage workers, virtual summer workers, and now unnecessary construction projects. They do not want affordable, they want free. Lori is just waiting for senile joe and goofy Harris to win so she can get a bailout. She is buying off her voters to get re-elected.

dom
3 years ago

You would have to be insane to put money in a down town business.They will burn it out when round 2 comes to chicago.

NoHope4Illinois
3 years ago
Reply to  dom

Property insurance rates have to at least double, if you can get it.

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