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A premium Fraser Fir would have cost between $80 and $100 just a few years ago. Now, that same tree runs from $100 – $150. “In years’ past, you could hire local people, and you could pay $12 to $13 an hour. And now it's very hard to find anybody that wants to do hard work like this,” said David Guenther, owner of Ken’s Christmas Trees in Melrose Park and Bridgeview. “So a lot of it is hired out...and it's $25 to $26 an hour to secure your labor.”
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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Hmm, I wonder if the Forest Preserve has any “U cut” Xmas trees?
no chance ,they are long gone
There are Christmas trees that come in a box. $100 buys one that will last for years. Ho Ho Ho. (sorry Kamila)