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Chicago saw craft beer boom a little more than a decade ago. Since 2011, the number of breweries in Illinois climbed from 54 to nearly 300 in 2024, but the existing amount has mostly plateaued since the pandemic year, according to the Brewers Association’s report.
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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Based on what I read in recent years, I’m not sure why any small business would want to operate in Chicago.
You can’t sell $ 12.00 8 oz drafts n this economy. Financial Prohibition
Too many breweries for too few beer drinkers. Craft beer is the domain of older millennials and hipsters who created the genre. There’s been quite the demographics bust among older Gen Z’s who are far more ethnically diverse (aka not alcohol drinkers) and prefer their cannabis to a 9% hazy IPA. Even if they wanted to drink, they can’t hardly afford the $8 beer plus tax plus tip that craft breweries charge these days. The urban craft brewery is a scene that came and went and the remaining breweries are fighting over the scraps that are left.
100 Percent. The younger people can get quite buzzed on a few bucks of cannabis and wake up the next day without a hangover. Let the market do its thing.
Just in time for Mayor Cliff Notes’ buddies to receive their confiscated taxpayer funds via subsidy.