Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale complained that the marijuana industry wrote the new city rules to protect itself. “The industry does not want people of color part of this program. We know that,” he said. But the chair of the Black Caucus, Ald. Jason Ervin, said the sky isn’t falling, “it’s raining hundred-dollar bills.”
The pot shops will go quite well with the BBQ joints, currency exchanges, dollar stores, pawn shops, and nail salons that will soon be filling the abandoned stores as major businesses move to the greener fields of Indiana
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.
The pot shops will go quite well with the BBQ joints, currency exchanges, dollar stores, pawn shops, and nail salons that will soon be filling the abandoned stores as major businesses move to the greener fields of Indiana