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The number of finance roles in Illinois as a whole is down 2.7% since Griffin left to 397,000 in September, according to data from the state’s Department of Employment Security. That’s a big setback for Chicago, a city that gave birth to the modern futures industry in the late 1800s and is home to CME Group Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc., some of the top derivatives exchanges.
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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Good man, that Mr. Griffin is. One of the few conservative billionaires with the philanthropic ideals of the long gone robber-baron era. There are others, of course, that aren’t stingy with their billions, but conservatives lack the philanthropy that expressly progressive or democrat organizations have. It’s something our side needs to work on.