Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
“A Vision” Translation…government subsidized low income housing.
Will the last person out please shut off the lights…Chicago is toast!
I guess they retired “reimagining”.
Section 8!
Coming soon to a formerly nice area near you soon.
I guess they gave up on any plans to try to rejuvenate downtown Chicago as a vibrant financial district. Unless Chicago gets leaders in place with financial acumen, the future looks very dismal.
Also, look at that first photo. What a lovely, family-friendly, crime-free environment it shows. They’re talking about downtown Chicago, right?
The photo in the linked article is dated March 7, 2023, a Tuesday. There is a single individual in front of the FRB Chicago looking at his phone, and no other pedestrians visible. What these naive fools fail to consider is that LaSalle St. *was* the economic engine of Chicago, back when is was full of banks, brokerages, lawyers, etc. With the Board and Merc a shadow of their former selves, there is no value and no income being created in the LaSalle St. corridor, only nostalgia. It’s not as if Chicago lacks for available residential units: ” Vacant apartments… Read more »
LaSalle St. will resemble downtown Harare or Caracas or Manchester before long. That is the goal. “Look at this nice thing we destroyed because the bad rich people use to live/work here. Now it’s ours and has high crime and all manner of QOL horrors. This is a progressive utopia.”
LaSalle St is a canyon with 2 or 3 sides of every building facing an alley or another building. I worked in several offices on LaSalle St. and there was no natural light. There is no way to make LaSalle St. residential friendly.
Vermin that scavage for what they need don’t require much light and avoid it.