Few readers will need "What Next, Chicago?’s" subtitle, "Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son," to grasp that journalist Matt Rosenberg is angry about conditions in the city where he grew up. During almost 30 years there he experienced Chicago as “a celebration and a calamity.” But coming home after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, Rosenberg encountered little worth celebrating and much that’s calamitous.
“Tottering town.” With all that we and you commenters have written, why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?
Old Joe
3 years ago
Detroit had a riot in 1967 and hasn’t been the same since. I’m even gonna say that there may not be enough potential rioters left to reach the critical mass necessary to riot again even if they wanted to. That’s the legacy of century of Democratic Party governance.
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.
“Tottering town.” With all that we and you commenters have written, why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?
Detroit had a riot in 1967 and hasn’t been the same since. I’m even gonna say that there may not be enough potential rioters left to reach the critical mass necessary to riot again even if they wanted to. That’s the legacy of century of Democratic Party governance.
Should read Illinois is on the brink as a whole
The book is excellent – well worth the purchase.