A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
One of the biggest economic engines the City had. Destroyed.
These conventions aren’t coming back, ever.
And how much you want to bet McCormick Place will cling to its idiotically draconian union policies right up until the building implosion?
they got their 65 million dollar payday from the temporary hospital that a whopping 37 people used…
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients
37 people. Not even Mark Twain himself could have concocted the farce that is Illinois.
So much for Dictator for Life Jabba’s belief that visitors will flock to Chicago because the harsh lockdown rules prove its a bastion of safety