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The overarching idea is called equitable transit-oriented development. In simpler terms: “affordable homes, grocery stores, health clinics, public art and many other wishes and desires driven by (the) community,” said Roberto Requejo, executive director of Elevated Chicago. “Hundreds of thousands of Black families have left the city of Chicago. Let’s stop that depopulation and that displacement and that diaspora.
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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It is not just black families, it is all Families are fleeing the high crime, high taxes and zero education from CPS. The whole system is failing and falling apart at a increasing rate. Costs of services are going higher and services going down, down, and down. It is a recipe for Diester.
It will be difficult to redevelop areas where people have been actively fleeing for generations. The far south side with old housing stock, a few remaining housing projects, legacy industrial areas, and proximity to the Indiana border, is a tough sell. The answer isn’t ‘monorail!’ like the 30 year old Simpson’s episode. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know the answer but a multi billion dollar red line extension isn’t it. If transforming blighted areas was as easy as building light rail, then the south and west sides would be urban utopias. But as I’ve said before,… Read more »
Leave it to democrats to turn every government function into a failed welfare giveaway disaster