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Altogether, organizers C3 Presents paid a total venue fee of $9,632,475. A C3-commissioned economic impact report found the festival contributed $422 million to the local economy in 2023, a needed bump for area hotels and restaurants still recovering from the pandemic. In contrast, the NASCAR Chicago Street Race netted $620,000 in permit fees to the city last year, which included a cut of food, beverage and merchandise sales.
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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