Ted joined Tom Miller to talk about why Illinois’ population gains in 2024 are only due to the massive wave of illegal immigration into the country, why taxpayers continue to flee the state, why it’s a bad deal to exchange residents for illegal immigrants, the new laws taking effect in 2025, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Call it the Illegal Immigration Census: Illinois population gains 68,000 in 2024 due to migrant tidal wave
- Illinois lawmakers shouldn’t burden taxpayers with Tier 2 pension “fixes” until they know what they’re doing
- Illinois pension debts hit $144 billion in 2024, make a mockery of politicians’ decades of ‘balanced budgets’
- Illinois’ rich, young residents join the exodus to other states
Audio and summary 
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
No problems. I’m sure it will all work out for you sheep.
Good deal for Democrats and other Leftists.
Population numbers don’t really matter, it’s the money. In the ledger of life you’re either a credit or a debit, and IL is losing credits and gaining debits.
Illinois Democrats would rather have someone they can control than someone who can contribute to society.
This is not an exchange of residents.
The high-income residents have been fleeing for years. This is a trend that has been accelerating.
Illinois still attracts high-income residents, although fewer than the post. I’ve posted here before a study showing that Illinois attracts two groups of residents to the exclusion of every one else: low wage immigrants and high income college graduates. We still have a pipeline of Big 10 graduates who come to Chicago for work but that is drying up as large corporations are filling jobs in other offices. We also have a huge low wage immigrant problem, as many towns in the region have become hispanic enclaves with the local public schools being nearly entirely hispanic: Dundee-Crown in Carptenrsville is… Read more »