By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lightfoot’s exit.
Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her dismal record on crime. And her destruction of police morale.
Her tenure was an absolute failure by any measure. From the beginning, she was more interested in imposing a progressive vision and an “equity” agenda on Chicago than enacting the many reforms the city needed.
So Chicagoans kicked out Lightfoot. Change was possible.
But what Chicagoans voted for on April 4 was someone more extreme and exactly opposite of what the city needed.
To reduce Chicago’s nation-high homicide rate, Chicago needed a new mayor willing to take on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s unwillingness to prosecute dangerous criminals. A mayor willing to challenge Judge Tim Evans’ decarcerationist agenda. A mayor willing to jam shut the system’s revolving door for criminals.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson won’t do any of that. Instead, look for him to embrace the policies of Foxx and Evans. In his own words, he’s for defunding the police and defends looting as “an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish” tied to “a failed racist system.”
Watch for police morale to fall further, for criminals to be emboldened and for crime to continue to spike in Chicago.
To improve Chicago’s dismal educational outcomes – only 1 in 20 black students at CPS can do math at grade level – the city needed a new mayor to champion math and reading proficiency as well as educational excellence, merit and achievement. You won’t get that from Brandon Johnson and his Chicago Teachers Union. Johnson has already said that as a teacher he pushed to eliminate standards, stopped giving homework, and reduced test prep as a way of “rebelling against the structure.” For him, the concept of “equity,” not excellence, will dominate, and kids will lose.
Watch for student outcomes to worsen as standards are removed.
And as for the city’s economic climate and business friendliness, Chicago needed a new mayor who would make the city affordable again by growing the tax base, not the tax rate. Who would encourage companies to come to the city, not lambast them as a cause of social ills.
Johnson will do the opposite. He’s promised to target businesses and the wealthy to pay for his social programming. We’ve already seen leaders in business and finance – like Ken Griffin and Citadel and Boeing – leave. Don’t be surprised to see a continued, steady outflow. The damage could be deep.
The silver lining in all this? A few years under Johnson may finally push the center left in Chicago to finally give a reformer the support of 50 percent plus one.
The question is, how bad of a hit will Chicago have taken during that time? To its safety. To its social cohesion. To its finances. To its population. To its economic base.
Will it be fixable, especially with all its debts?
We hope so.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- It’s time to turn the corner on Chicago’s sad and sordid history of racial politics
- Why can only 6 of every 100 Chicago black students do math at grade level? Chicago Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson offers some clues.
- A reminder for Chicago voters: 20 times Lori Lightfoot failed the city
- Brandon Johnson’s views on tolerance for violence and defunding police are absolutely clear. Here are his own words.
- More cops on Chicago’s streets won’t help until criminals are prosecuted and sentenced
Still fairly upset but ballot harvesting, cheating, stealing elections is after all the Chicago way. Why should I be surprised? I guess I held out hope that my beloved home I have exiled my self from almost a year ago, I thought the voters were done doing self inflicted wounds to themselves. I was so WRONG. I put WGN on down here in Texas and just couldn’t believe sound policy lost to racial politics. Lightfoot didn’t know what to do and was in over her head. Johnson is going to be way worse. This is what the people voted for.… Read more »
Does he have to quit the other two jobs or can he triple dip? Brings back fond memories of Roy “Bellwood Red-Lights” McCampbell who claimed to be doing the work of nine people and so compensated himself for it.
I repeat. Display all Chicago flags with traditional signs of mourning: black ribbons or black bows.
Who knew that the goofy “Let’s go Brandon” chant would produce the real thing. A real
dope named Brandon. The universe works in mysterious ways.
Chicago is run by a mafia. One boss out, the next one in. The progressives are in charge. They celebrate their own failure, ignore critics (which are often stifled by media), and ignore constituents as well. But hey, if you’re on the inside, you’ll vote for it endlessly. We were warned about this. It ends badly.
Why does the right insist on letting the left determine the language they use?
“Progressive”… vomit inducing. Identify them as the communists that they are. They want to return us to pagan stone ages which is the opposite of progress.
Funny. I think you’re forgetting WHO counts the votes.
Sing it with me …….Ay oh way to go Chicago (The Pretenders) – perfect name for Chicago Democrats
Wow, this thread is clearly serving as a therapeutic outlet for people upset that other people think and vote differently than themselves. Oh the horror.
Also, really enjoyed all the “fraud” complaints. It’s completely become part of the far right brand and I’d be disappointed if I didn’t see it from the typical fringe nut jobs. Well done.
Cheating and stealing elections has a long history here in Chicago and Illinois. Most countries around the world have a biometric national ID card (see Central America and South America) so they know who is in the country at all times for immigration and benefits purposes. This is also used for voting, national health care in a country like Colombia. Have any guesses why we the US doesn’t have one? The folks you stand up for and support are taking our freedoms away and that means yours as well. You are supporting Marxists who want to destroy the country. A… Read more »
“The folks you stand up for”
I stand up for the people and their right to choose in elections. I stand up for our constitutional republic not fear mongering of election fraud with no proof. I didn’t support Johnson and think he is the wrong direction for Chicago but I support the people on choosing their leadership. You seemed lost on the definition of Marxists.
“A difference of opinion doesn’t make me a terrorist.”
I never said it did. You’re conflating me standing up for supporting the will of the people with someone else.
The will of the people is a balanced budget.
If you want to label me as far right no problem. I will never trust the government. Will wear that with honor because I don’t need anyone to tell me how to live and how to think. Election fraud with no proof? 10000 Mules is not proof? Soros money is not in play? Keep believing your own bullshit. The machines, the tech was used in Venezuela and was used to steal the country from the people. Chavez and Maduro. Now Lula. You think that the intelligence agencies didn’t do the same thing here under the cover of darkness, along with… Read more »
Just because you have paranoia that doesn’t mean everybody is not out to get you, buddy. Cheer up!
Yes, they are
He had it right on Marxists.
Of course! Who else can be “the pensions paid first” another union guy! The only problem is that you are part of the “me nation” you just want to make sure that your pension is granted.
Hope has no home in Chicago. Get out now while you can.
School choice won’t get anywhere. Brandon Johnson isn’t the first elected public union representative and he won’t be the last.
I don’t think public union support alone carries an election. Four years ago it didn’t. But, the CTU and race bias among voters seemed to influence this election.
Depending on when and who Johnson appoints as police superintendent, look for a mass exodus of cops, pensions or no pensions.
If I were a cop I’d just go fetal until I landed another gig or go fetal if I wanted to wait out till retirement, also take a disability. To go fetal, I’d spend my days doing my paperwork slowly and exactly to the letter, never chase a perp, never pull over anyone, get stuck in traffic going to calls, in other words become a defunded-cop, like they wanted.
So hard to believe they just doubled-down on stupid. I couyldn’t believe the new mayor wants to spread the disaster of Chicago to other places around the nation. OMG…are you serious?
Someone has been living in denial & under a rock.
Chicago is one of the dumbest cities in America. Turning a blind eye to that reality won’t change it.
Blacks and white leftists are the base of the Democratic Party. Brandon Johnson probably dominated with those 2 groups, so not surprising he won.
Don’t much care what happens to people that live in Chicago — I just hope they are happy and they stay there so the rest of us don’t get infiltrated with the flotsum and jetsom that manages to escape.
What’s the chance Chicago gets the DNC convention now??? I say zero but maybe somebody’s got a different opinion?
Let’s hope so. I can’t imagine a better welcome to Democrat’s Chicago Paradise than the DNC conventioneers experiencing some criminality that they condone and encourage. Lets hope that all of CPD calls in sick that week.
Yes getting the DN convention would be a great showcase, for the republicans.
Great question. Will they embrace this extremism or distance themselves from it?
looks like they’re already “eating their own” at obama center
I think I’ve finally got it – Chicago will be ‘fixed’ when IL finally gets a Black Gov (what Griffen was trying to pull) Till then, all the problems are Pritzkers fault!
After the initial election WBBM Radio aired a piece that tried to explain that Johnson and Vallas weren’t really far apart in their views. Really? In actuality the WBBM piece’s purpose was to get people to think that Johnson and Vallas’ views weren’t too far apart so that race became the deciding factor. Guess what? It worked! Race was the deciding factor and now you have somebody in power that is even further left than Lightfoot. Police officers – keep your heads down and stay safe.
If police officers want to be safe & live then they will leave the city.
CTU/Brandon have never run anything. It will be interesting who they bring in behind the scenes to run the show. and make no mistake the next 4 years is going to be all about SHOW. With former deBlasio and Sanders staffer Bill Neihardt, brought in to run CTU/Brandons campaign, does this signal perhaps they’ll bringing in more handlers from failed deBlaiso administration? NYC-ers where smart enough to run these clowns out of town so maybe the same folks are just carpetbagging it over to Chicago? Make no mistakes this is a national progressive gigantic win moment…Brandons just the front guy.… Read more »
Bill Neidhardt
When Brandon sinks into the mayor’s chair he’ll be like a dog chasing a car.
This article represents the naivety of the writers and conservatives. Why do I write this? Look at what happened at Sanford Law School, at Columbia Law School, our academic institutions, the recent survey of Americans on the question of socialism and Western Ideals. These students – future jurists, lawyers and legislature members want to tear down, destroy America. People are fleeing Illinois, CA, NY and other states with high crime and taxes. What’s going to left? No income tax base, decaying infrastructure and low income population. Can a Mayor turn this around! Where’s the funds coming from to hire police,… Read more »
They don’t want to tear down America. They’re ignorant, and they’ve been in an echo chamber for their whole lives. People are waking up every day. Kids are starting to laugh at these idiots.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1642283232577159171
They aren’t only ignorant.
They want to tear down. They are nihilists.
Remember that Lightfoot, from Massillon, Ohio, is, alas, a UC Law grad.
Affirmative Action in action
the new guy is just as AA as Lightfoot. He often invoked his opponent as “insulting a black man” in campaign speeches. Imagine that, it worked. what does it tell you about Chicago?
Yes, the elites are all Democrats and they have captured most institutions. But the is no way they legitimately got 81,000,000 votes for Biden; and even so, Trump still had 75,000,000 himself, and only crazy people say “Russia” did it. States and even localities still have strong Republican power bases that can protect against the elite progressive institutional capture. And eventually, but not quite yet, the progressives have gotten so crazy they are scaring away the ‘moderate’ democrats. I don’t know when, if ever, the moderates will move away from the crazies, but craziness tends to burn itself out. Political… Read more »
The country is basically lost to the left. It can’t be resurrected now that the institutions are all infected and totally controlled by the left. Funny, these people control everything and can’t get past the cries of rampant racism in our institutions – that they’ve been running for 50 years.
I agree that there is NO WAY 81,000,000 voted for Biden. It’s not even remotely possible. That election was the most fraudulent in world history and the infected legal institution was content with the outcome so it took no interest in auditing the election.
It’s fascinating. A city of 3 million folks… The rational choice was easy to see. It wasn’t Johnson.
Apparently people aren’t rational. And, on balance, are too ignorant to vote in their own best interest.
Dearest Johnson supporters, you win. The takers have won and once this shell of a city is alit, I shall remind you of your decsion. Funny enough, they do have consequences.
Here’s another thought, let’s say you voted for Johnson. What happens when businesses corporations, bakeries, restaurants, bars, retail shops, etc leave downtown because of higher taxes and no police presence? Where will you work? None of these businesses are in your neighborhood just like they aren’t in mine. You will be out of a job. The city will not be able to pay you not to work because their pension debt always comes first. If they tax other people more to pay you, they will just leave Chicago and you’ll have nothing. Democrats only care about your vote and nothing… Read more »
The answer to your question….”It’s not our fault! It’s systemic racism!”
systemic racism in a system that has been run, lock-stock-and-barrel for the last 50 years by progressives and blacks in every major city. Weird, right? You’d think they’d do something about that after all this time.
Who cares, those voters are getting what they wanted
No, they’re getting what they were sold. This was a Kang vs. Kodos election. One side of the bad penny or the other. The progressives were the ONLY choice anyone had at any point in this process. Not a single moderate, non-machine guy was ever on the ballot. When the voters are offered NO choices, it’s no wonder a racist, communist like Johnson gets elected. Not a surprise they called it for him in like 49 seconds after the polls closed. Makes you wonder if there was even an election after all.
Glad I am out of the city but I am concerned for the people who are dependent on the municipal pensions. When North Michigan Avenue, currently at 30% vacancy, is awash in nail salons and hub cap shops; I doubt the needed tax revenue targets will be met. But then again, less than 50% of those I worry about bothered to vote, so who do you blame?
Don’t worry, we’ve been reliably informed that there is still plenty of tax revenue to be extracted from the deadbeat taxpayers.
This election will allow things to get worse before they can ever be better. Maybe that will be great 20 years from now but there is only so much tax burden that business and property holders will put up with along with massive crime and poor schools before the city and collar counties empty out. You don’t stay for a Big Beef when you can order one in DFW at Portillos. The financial answer IMHO is to put the state and city into receivership for bankruptcy proceedings. Only then could you claw back anything for pensions and sweetheart benefits. In… Read more »
It’s hard to undo damage like this when it infiltrates schools, workplaces, and government halls. It won’t be better in 20 years because this ideology only enslaves and eliminates opportunity, subjugating the people. you already see it in the streets of chicago with now at least the 4th generation of west side residents in abject poverty, crime, and hopelessness. This hasn’t changed one bit despite vast fortunes being spent on “programs” and “investments’ that do nothing but fortify the power of the Alderman for decades. 20 years from now, the next generation may have a chance to escape the cancer… Read more »
Display every Chicago flag with a black ribbon or bow.
reality will kick in soon !
johnson ran on hiking taxes on companies and the wealthy and you can expect for him to follow through on his promises , this in turn will trigger a exodus of companies and wealthy people of immense proportions which only is going to be accelerated by the increase in crime that is to come
Chicago was slowly becoming Detroit. The pedal just got pushed to the metal.
won’t be long now. Something like 30% of current office space in Chicago is vacant, an all time high. Think that’s going to be improved with wealth and head taxes?
People, please stop crying and complaining! Johnson won by something like 3%. That’s not much of a defeat to me. Johnson won because his base is very organized, militant, and they work as a team! Johnson’s opposition as a whole has more resources; moderates and the right are far more sophisticated and competent too, but they consistently fail because of poor organization, zero advertising, and a reluctance to even try! I’ve been fairly active in political circles. I still don’t know who to trust or who to work with, and that’s a huge top down failure. If we’re going to… Read more »
You are correct that the GOP is not organized and has less resources. However, candidate quality matters little – that is evident from the Democrat Party’s own candidates that are elected. All that matters is harvesting as many straight ticket Republican ballots as possible. That’s all that matters. We could elect Daffy Duck if we wanted to, all we need are ballots. And right now, we can’t get our side to even show up.
I don’t really care about the GOP. I’m talking about individuals that identify as moderates and Republicans. As a whole, they’re in higher income brackets, are more than likely to have a college degree or advanced degree, etc. We have resources, but it’s not going to help much if folks don’t communicate or organize.
We need to communicate and organize first before we can pull off some sort of ballot strategy.
My town had a 20% turnout yesterday and progressives sweeped every municipal position. Of that 20%, my calculations showed progressives were 12% of that 20%, and together were 60% of all votes. Maybe the votes are there to capture Republicans, but it takes a lot of money, and resources, and I don’t see any billionaire like JB donating trying to flip my local school race. Illinois is a lost cause. There’s nothing wrong with retreating and regrouping our votes in IN or WI. It’s called tactical retreat and George Washington was the master of it.
Nobody has done the research or the work! Your back of the napkin stuff doesn’t cut it. There’s low cost and easy to implement tech out there that can sniff out corruption and a lot more. Wirepoints put together some awesome reports regarding school performance, and I don’t think they labored too hard or spent big.
I’m really tempted to compile and reconcile voter data if Wirepoints doesn’t. These folks are sloppy. Let’s see what surfaces.
Have at it, Dave. Go nuts.
What exactly would be researched? Most likely pretty quickly it would require precinct level data in a database which requires database skills. Just understanding what happened much less identifying corruption is a major task. There are 102 counties in Illinois, most of those have a township form of government with several townships, and each of the townships have precincts, the more populous ones with what 60 precincts+, and there are all the various candidates in each precinct. John “Data Factory” Klinger and Ted “Report Factory” Dabrowski crank out documents at an impressive clip, far from easy. Someone also gets to… Read more »
I used to mine property records at Chicago City Hall when I was younger. If the walls in the Recorder of Deeds office could talk, they’d tell you somebody once painted them brown and got reprimanded because white is more profitable and requires more maintenance. I personally watched the walls get painted brown and then painted over a week later. This is a true story! In short, I’ve seen it all. I’ve personally witnessed major felonies, racketeering, document destruction, systemic fraud, Indemnity Fund fraud (Tax Foreclosure Proceeding Related and very $$$), elevators & escalators broken every week (What are the… Read more »
why did younot become a whistleblower
The entire real estate industry fell apart at the same time, and I came to the conclusion that bank fraud was a much bigger problem. Unfortunately, bankers got off the hook. It’s a long story.
Well if you did nothing it is hypocritical to criticize others for doing nothing. Anyways, mining voter data is no small task. Pretty sad if there is easily identifiable voter fraud in Chicago and no one does anything. But then again there is plenty of shady history in this state. The state and local governments ran most of the pension systems into the ground. Wasn’t it Rauner or someone close to him who booted some Chicago Republican Precinct Committeemen because they were really Democrats. Plenty of convicted Chicago Alderman. The MWRD guy who was recorded saying no one gives a… Read more »
Nobody shows up because of garbage like this plastered all over the internet:
“Vote with your feet.”
“Yup, Dominion.”
“We’ll never win.”
“Why bother voting if they’re going to cheat?”
“Blacks always vote Democrat.”
“Democrats have been running this town for 100 years.”
“Socialism is impossible to reverse.”
Does anybody see a pattern?
If it’s still not obvious, Obama’s theme was “Yes we can!”
I’m glad you see a glass half-full where every other pundit, analyst and political consultant sees Illinois as a lost cause. The national Republican Party gave up on IL twenty years ago when it failed to support Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, and he retired knowing that he was toast when it came for reelection. Maybe you want to blame that moment as the turning point, I don’t know. But the Democrat’s march since really the 90’s when Clinton won has continued almost unstopped with a few hiccups here and there. This is not unique to Illinois though, most states are… Read more »
Who cares what pundits and professional politicians think? You’re an idiot if you do what politicians tell you to do. Hahah
Okay, don’t pay your taxes and get back to us about how that works out for you.
This is easily done in Tennessee or any other right to work red state. Easy.
Oh. So lie to everyone.
Nobody should lie. Would you work with someone or play on the same team as someone that is persistently pessimistic and defeatist?
Or, be realists and use limited resources more wisely instead of pouring them into lost causes because you were fooled by an optimist.
Moderates don’t live for politics. That will always be a problem, most especially in low voter turnout elections.
You’ve never been to Chicago. No republicans were ever, at any point, anywhere in this process part of the discussion. There are NO republicans in Chicago. They’re not allowed in by the mafia that runs the city. This isn’t a place where we need better candidates – the candidates are pre-chosen and you either get Kang or Kodos. Chicago is hopelessly broken.
I don’t own real estate in Chicago, so this might be a fun experiment. Will Brandon realize how insufferable his side is when dealt with the reality of balancing their expectations with budgets? Or will he go back to his old self and start granting wishes to every special interest group trying to appease all and pissing off everyone and sending the city into financial chaos? Let’s see if CTU’s demands this contract cycle are as aggressive as they were under Lori and Brandon. Because those same issues still exist. And if Brandon doesn’t fulfill them, that means he was… Read more »
It’ll be a love fest between Brandon and the CTU. They’ll just raise taxes to pay the costs and the CTU will provide plenty of suggestions who and what to tax. And if revenue projections come in short, they’ll just borrow the difference. Brandon will run the city like he runs his personal finances – into the ground, before he makes a run for Dick Durbin’s senate seat in a few years.
And, a Fed bailout will solve all of the insolvency problems. It is about as un-American as it gets… Excuse my jingoistic tendencies…
Will Brandon Johnson resign from CTU?
If so will he post the resignation letter?
Or will he remain unpaid leave from CTU?
I’d wager he’ll resign from CTU because he’ll accrue time in MEABF under a mayor’s salary and probably convert all his service time to MEABF under the reciprocity rules between the pension systems. I think both MEABF and CCPF have better vesting than CTPF anyway. But if he does convert to MEABF, his pension will become solely Chicago’s problem.
We now know that this pro-union, anti-cop, anti-American BLM terrorist rigged the election.
In Chicago that is more than likely the case. Unfortunately this is what the regime wants and the people get zero input. Think its bad now? When the 13% run everything without a balance, there are many examples globally and here of how things will turn out. Think warlords, chiefs, and tribal behavior 24/7/365. Detroit, Baltimore, DC, St Louis, Minneapolis, do I need to mention what it looks like when its payback time? See Zimbabwe and South Africa. People will lose everything if they have their way including their lives. Rule of law is only as good as when its… Read more »
Exactly right! Problem is that too many people are asleep at the wheel and the lefties don’t think it will be “that bad”. Until it is!
The transformation to Detroit is complete.
I seriously doubt Chicagoans actually voted for this. The fascist/totalitarian Left has the lock on election fraud.
Never underestimated the power of the endorsement of an individual. James Clyburn gave the country, and by extension the world, Joe Biden. Now Chuy Garcia has given Chicago, and by extension Illinois, Brandon Johnson. The image of Illinois being run by ingrained CTU values is horrific
Chicago has fallen. 😢😡
Chicago fell when Big Bill Thompson, our last conservative mayor, left office in 1931.
Let’s hope that the violent crime problems start really accessing the few nice areas of the city which are mostly White and hit hard the many White teachers, members of the CTU, their families and friends. They deserve what they wanted and what they got. Burn it down.
Fully concur. It’s tough to feel sorry for these people when they vote in a radical agenda that will only result in higher crime, more dysfunction and continued exodus of productive people and businesses. The tax base will continue to plummet and Chicago is certain to be the next Detroit.
Looks like Logan Square, a huge Brandon-supporting area, is getting hit by carjackings this morning. Would be so nice if Chicago’s criminals only hit up Brandon-voting areas for the next four years, where they can rob at will and get apologized to by the hipsters they’re carjacking. https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1643645613844873216
What a terrible comment. Wishing harm and destruction doesn’t seem any different than BLM and it’s fellow rioters. It’s Easter week, people!
Really? Wishing that people get what they voted for and carrying out violent crime are equivalent?
You must be a CPD graduate.
And how would you interpret “Burn it down?”
Again (it’s becoming obvious you are in fact a CPD graduate) in one case someone is speaking rhetorically and in the case of the black marxists they are in fact burning buildings down.
And in your warped mind rhetorical speech and the actual burning of buildings is equivalent.
I would be proud to be a CPD graduate. Those first responders deserve far more respect than they get and you give them.
Who cares what week this is? Get a life and job, JuJu. Your Communist Party always wishes us great harm.
Criticizing those who wish harm on others equates to communism? And while you’re blindly assuming I’m unemployed and a Communist, I’ll do the same and tell you I’m more conservative and more patriotic than you. We are all children in the eyes of God and we are all citizens of these great United States. Love one another, especially during this Holy Week.
Looks like you’re right over the target. Have a blessed Easter jajujon.
I wonder who downvoted you. Why would the CTU downvote violent crime? They love it.
Another act of voter fraud. Vallas was winning at least 6% until it was time to start counting so-called early-voting ballots. During the Soviet era of political executions, Josef Stalin famously said: It does not matter who votes. WHAT DOES MATTER IS WHO COUNTS!!!!
He was a criminal horrific genius of death. Our today’s gnomes and criminal, senile fools. We are at the point of no return. We are failing as a country, as a nation, as a society.
True, I myself voted both by mail and in person last election. Nothing stopped us. The in-person system obviously doesn’t keep track of the mail-in system, otherwise the vote worker would have stopped us right? Everyone needs to vote twice in the next election, by mail and in person, it works, I’m serious no sarcasm.
Ohhhh, I think you could get in a lot of trouble for that, Rick.
As he should.
ONLY if he voted for Vallas. Totally OK, and encouraged, if he voted for Johnson.
Yeah, what a great job you did, Chicago. When your taxes go up on everything, the quality of education continues to go down while teachers wages continue to go up, your relatives and friends are murdered at an obscene rate and there are no cops to come when you call, REMEMBER, you voted for this. The rest of the state doesn’t care about you anymore. You chose to be even more Progressive, now live with it. You’ll get no sympathy from the rest of us, you deserve everything coming to you.
I really wish the right would stop adopting the language of the left. “Progressive”. Vomit inducing. Identify them as the communists that they are.
Can anything be worse than Lori Lightfoot? We will soon see.
I will take bets crime goes up, education is Zero, and Taxes go to the moon.
Yes.
The skies are literally grey and cloudy in Chicago today. The fact that the City of Chicago just elected a Black Defund the Police Chicago Teacher Union Socialist over a better qualified older White candidate who led on restoring safety on the streets and excellence in public education sadly says it all.
Chicago is going to get what it voted for, and it’s a sad, sad day.
Before the primary, my prediction was the whoever finished 2nd would be the winner in the runoff, assuming Vallas won the primary. Why? Strictly because of race. A combination of race hustlers like Jesse/Sharpton getting involved and northside white guilt.
But after seeing how Vallas ran his campaign over the last month, I was very encouraged that he was doing all the right things and would win.
Shoulda just went with my first instinct, sad as it is.
Too bad his people weren’t counting the votes. The nation is now well aware of how these extreme democrats hold onto power. I would wager that they likely haven’t won a real fair election in generations.
If Democrats can’t beat you, they’ll beat you up.
Thanks to Illinois and Chicago voters from all the red states. Going forward, we look forward to contrasting your Dem city/state with our non-Dem city/state.
To see what will happen to Chicago look to Detroit, Baltimore and St. Louis. It is not going to be pretty.
As a Baltimore homeowner, I say with sadness that you’re correct. Once a city is completely given over to pro-poverty politicians, it’s basically impossible to ever recover. Investment never happens because it’s too expensive, too onerous, too politically fraught with giveaways to corrupt politicians and special interest groups claiming to represent the indigent. Moderate and high-income folks don’t tend to stay long, because subpar services and infrastructure never come close the sky-high taxes. When the city is left to bla** residents alone, the political establishment becomes too ossified to ever change. Policies will never entice the general population to move… Read more »
Chicago’s regional position is dependent upon the migration of mostly Big 10 college grads coming here after college for high paying jobs. Many, but not all, of them stay. The rest of Chicago’s migration is low wage immigrants, legal and illegal. Collectively they contribute little to the economy, and after their social welfare and benefits, my guess it is probably a wash, if not a net negative. If Chicago loses the high paying migrants, there’s probably much of a reason for it to remain a regional power. It’ll be just another dumpy big city.
Well…two thoughts.
(1) You can’t fix Stupid
(2) If I was a Chicago Police Officer I would be heading for the door. Expect many more resignations.
Yes, the police officers should have been looking for jobs in other states months ago. NOW, get the hell out!
I’m a moderate Democrat who isn’t a fan of DeSantis or Abbott, but I now 100% hope they reach out to both Chicago police and Chicago’s main corporations and try to make room in their states for as many as possible. Honestly, the Democratic Party deserves the humiliation of a blue city losing its best police and companies after last night.
Nothing. Chicago is a one-party entity, and is determined to remain one, regardless of the city’s proudly displayed rot.
There is no silver lining. When Detroit collapsed in the 60’s and 70’s, was there a silver lining, and has Detroit ever recovered? And when people fled Baltimore for the suburbs, has Baltimore ever recovered? And when inner-city Milwaukee turned into a wasteland, and residents fled their childhood neighborhoods as their neighbors were killed in home invasions, have those neighborhoods ever recovered? And when Chicago residents fled Roseland for safer parts of the city, and the southern suburbs, is Roseland any better today than it was in 1970? The answer is no, once destroyed, it does not come back. Destroyed… Read more »
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Debtsor is absolutely right.
I am of a practical bent. There is little doubt that the commercial real estate market nationwide will undergo extreme pain. Yes COVID is a factor. But so is crime, big time. Not just crime in the downtown area but on public transit as well. And interest rates are a killer. The industry is built on debt and refinancings will take place in a tight credit market with high interest rates. Can Chicago survive without a reasonable downtown? Conversion from office buildings to condos is not the answer. I raise these questions because just how prepared is Johnson to deal… Read more »
There will be no more “downtown Chicago”. Chipping away at the city piece by piece
The Brandon Johnson crowd never cared much for downtown. All they see are big tall buildings owned by rich people with companies that hire mostly rich college grads. They see the vibrant tourist areas for suburban tourists only, as the city chased roving mobs of wildlings away from attractions every summer night. It means nothing to the Brandon Johnson voter if downtown is destroyed, because downtown Chicago isn’t part of ‘their’ collective Chicago experience, other than to contest a parking ticket or appear in court. These communists don’t care what happens to downtown. They’d rather see it destroyed, in the… Read more »
Perfectly said.
Some citizens continue to view downtown as a target rich area.
Debtsor no doubt you are correct but downtown generates the revenue. The math problem becomes extreme. One of the striking things about the Detroit bankruptcy is just how little revenue the City of Detroit brought in. The casino was the most vital source of revenue. I don’t see how the math will work for Chicago.
They’ll borrow it, or sell off more assets. And like PFF says, there’s still a lot left to tax, even if it drives away more residents. Brandon Johnson doesn’t have some 30 year plan to turn around Chicago. Like he said, he represents the residents of Chicago who are on payment plans. He’ll be stealing from Peter to pay Paul. Of course he’ll raise property taxes in year 2 or 3 of his term. Single family homes on the north side of Chicago still cost upwards of a million dollars and fancy luxury condos cost half a million or more.… Read more »
For those of you still in Chicago or Illinois, take a moment and consider the next election in a few years. There will be even fewer independents and conservatives. Things won’t be any different going forward. (If you don’t believe me, just ask Wirepoints.)
You can either join us now in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, or join us later when the price gap between Illinois and those states is even greater. You can’t avoid the law of supply and demand. Waiting will only make things worse for you.
Waiting to see if and when those states start trying to poach Chicago’s major corporations. Hope it is soon!
The Amazon Post agrees with you – Chicago is beyond a tipping point, into a long downward spiral of Leftism. IL is pretty much there also.
Chicago gets what it deserves. It is well on its way to becoming the next Detroit – a failed city that is but an empty husk of its former self. It will be the backdrop when they remake Robocop. Thanks Democrats.
Chicago may lap San Francisco on the social justice race track. I’m in the stands as the gun sounds . . . no, someone wasn’t shot . . . yet. Run, Chicago, run!
Some of the dumbest people in the nation live in Chicago. Chicago is the armpit of Illinois.
Good luck to the citizens as your city crumbles.
Chicago is super majority minority. There is no going back. Sell your house, sell your business, get out now.
Get the hell out of Illinois, period.
Peak idiocracy.
Not peak, just another pitstop on the progressive journey to hell.
But…but he’s black and he speaks our language we were programmed to have. Seriously, we all know he’s another wannabe-globalist muppet who is partnered to do more for the gangs than his constituency but if only people would try what they never tried before including stopping to pay their taxes, dowsing him in real tar and feathers, or simply warning that if he continues this campaign to undermine the city, you’re going to huff, you’re going to puff, and you’re going to burn his house down- because if it’s good enough for BLM then… Lot’s of room in this country.… Read more »
The pain is clearly not bad enough. So the crime needs to continue to rise. BLM BJ might get mad if the citizens start killing the bad guys because they’re being allowed to run rampant.
I guess he aspires to making chi-town another Detroit.
Chicago’s ‘Detroit moment’ draws near. Foolish to invest in Chicago.
Oh well, this is what people there wanted.
We are already Detroit in 2/3rds of the city, but those $8 pints of the hazy IPA at the north/northwest side bars is cloudying your views..
Good one!
I grew up in Detroit and was 14 when the 68 riots happened. Back then. Detroit was one of the 6 largest cities in the country, The riots destabilized Detroit, and over the next 10-15 years the population declined as anyone with the means (white or black) fled to the suburbs or elsewhere. It wasn’t the riots that caused this as much as the election of Coleman Young as mayor. Instead of trying to bring everyone back together, he played the race card big time, and caused even more divisiveness and corruption into the city. I visit Chicago several times… Read more »
Yes, the problem goes beyond the ’68 riots as Newark didnt suffer the same fate accompli.
Steve & Jon, the riot occurred in July, 1967. The Tigers won the World Series in 1968.
What? Newark is a total dump too…
I don’t believe that Detroit ever healed.
Me neither. It just eventually stabilized all be it at a much lower level.