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The developer was asking for the city to acquire 400 S. La Salle by eminent domain, a risk for the public treasury. The Cook County assessor puts its market value at $58.6 million; insiders believe it will sell for much less, perhaps to somebody who would build a data center in the space. The prospect could disturb anybody who roots for the central Loop’s revival.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
Wow. They should have just left the old 1903 LaSalle Street Station there. What a waste.
That damn “reality” thing always seems to pop up. What gives?
Esports enthusiasts live in their parents’ basements in the suburbs. They’re not travelling to McCormick Place or the former COBE trading floor to watch or play esports. The developer would have more success converting a empty big box store in the suburbs into an esports event. Heck of a lot cheaper too. In many suburbs, those empty flagships big box stores stay vacant for years. Heck, there’s still some empty Kmarts and Dominicks stores out there too.
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