Former Highland Park Mayor Michael Belsky: "I put the news of (Chicago's) deficit and the uncertainty around how to manage it up there with the annual news about the low funding levels of the city’s pension funds. These conditions become headlines. Reading them is stressful for residents and local businesses. While hard to measure, who knows how many businesses, trade conferences and tourists spurn our fair city because of this annual noise."
People with any common sense spurn the CHI metro area due to dirty, unreliable public transportation, obscene taxes on every product and service and an out of control criminal element that could land one in the hospital or morgue for having a phone, designer purse, gold necklace or accidentally looking at someone intent on committing crime. Quit ignoring the elephant in the room.
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.
People with any common sense spurn the CHI metro area due to dirty, unreliable public transportation, obscene taxes on every product and service and an out of control criminal element that could land one in the hospital or morgue for having a phone, designer purse, gold necklace or accidentally looking at someone intent on committing crime. Quit ignoring the elephant in the room.