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There was optimism in the air two years ago when then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced full-throated city backing for 250 new single-family homes priced for working-class buyers and built on city-owned vacant lots in North Lawndale. Today, only 18 are in various stages of construction. Richard Townsell, of the Lawndale Christian Development Corp., said the hold up is from all types of municipal red tape over the properties. “This is really about a city that has no urgency when it comes to working families."
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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Far left activists have now idea how to build anything