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"...State Street, which has some 35,000 theater seats within a block or two and is the main thoroughfare of Chicago’s recovering entertainment district, is enjoying the benefits of the pendulum swinging back to the Loop from once-ritzier North Michigan Avenue... If retail smash and grab is the main problem on Michigan Avenue, State Street now has to worry more about Chicagoans and suburbanites being afraid of walking back to the train, especially late at night."
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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Once I would have agreed with cops getting out and waling a beat. But today it is rather pointless. If cops witness a robbery they are not allowed to pursue and if any arrests are made the offenders get out almost immediately. So why would any cop waste their time on such idiocy?
Hey Trib editorial wimp, how about you apply to the Police Academy, try to pass, then volunteer to walk the midnight beat on State Street?