Meanwhile, Chicago, the Utterly Failure of a Liberal City, is Still Booming Big Time. (marijuana, Hispanics)
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It is reasonable to assume most are armed, legal and otherwise, in gang - infested areas.
A broke, convicted felon just released from prison, on parole, has no problem acquiring a fire arm.
C/C is legal in the city and state. NY has stricter gun controls than Illinois.
While one cannot legally purchase a firearm in the city, one can do so from an adjoining suburb or nearby Indiana.
The state, not the city determines minimum sentencing and paroles.
CC is legal (thanks to Heller), but from what I have read the city has done everything humanly possible to make it difficult and inconvenient to get a permit.
Good point, liberals don’t care about black neighborhoods. That’s why they’re still war zones. The rest of democratic Chicago is moving on just fine and prospering.
Chicago is what it is: a rough place to start a business, a great place to run a business when you have the money/contacts to get what you want.
Yeah, it's a great town to own say....a trucking fleet where the city pays you to not actually use the trucks in exchange for kickbacks to the politicians.
I worked at a company that had a "connected" guy in sales and the minute they started there in rolled the contracts with all kinds of government entities like the CTA etc. etc. etc.
Then Mayor Daley sold off the city parking enforcement to a private company in a sweetheart deal on his way out of office.
Sorry but I could never go back and live in such a corrupt place.
Nothing new. They had an ex-mayor die around 1947ish that had millions in cash in safes and had the city livery tax paid to his campaign fund.
Any city where 100s of people are shot dead in the streets each year, especially in a first world country, is a failure by any measure in the books.
The Leftists can make excuse for their Democrat Plantations any way they like, but it doesn't change that simple fact.
Democrats have been elected to stop the crime in these communities and they have failed horribly.
Maybe stop and frisk isn't so bad when the alternative is 59 people shot over the weekend. I wonder how the families of the 8 dead this weekend feel about the political leadership of the community.
Where is the community organizer? I imagine he's on the beach counting his money right now as his daughters attend Harvard and his hometown continues to be a war zone while his former constituents live in fear. So much for hope and change and black lives matter.
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^ makes no sense.
Yes, it makes no sense for those who don't live in fear of being shot at everyday.
Go to Chicago if you want a good paying job. Companies are moving their headquarters there, tech giants are hiring and fighting the tech start-up for top talent, and all-around things are going great.
Oh yeah, some idiots will come here and say, "It's all thanks to Trump!!" But they are idiots. The only thing Trump did for Chicago is to send in the feds..... Oh wait, he didn't even do that!! Trump has done nothing for Obama's home city. Yet here they are.
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Chicago has lots of nice areas, but many depressed areas too.
Chicago isn't all rosy - you can cherry pick either way.
For example, Illinois' state government claims that the Chicago area has had a net loss of jobs recently (bad as the US as a whole is gaining jobs).
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And the same taxes and regulations that cause problems for downstate communities in need of job creation also harm minority communities in the Chicago area, which is burdened with the nation’s highest black unemployment rate. In fact, the Chicago area in general, with looming property tax hikes and skyrocketing debt, could itself edge toward recession with all the tax hikes hitting families and businesses.
It’s just the latest sign of how badly Chicago’s public schools are failing the city’s students. Consider this:
• Four out of 10 CPS freshmen don’t graduate.
• 91 percent of CPS graduates must take remedial courses in college because they do not know how to do basic math and other schoolwork.
• Only 26 percent of CPS high school students are college-ready, according to results from ACT subject-matter tests.
Education should be the great equalizer; but in Chicago, public education is more of a holding cell than a launch pad.
The troubles have prompted bond-rating agency Moody’s to downgrade the credit ratings for the city, the school district and the park district to junk status — giving Chicago the worst credit rating of any big city after Detroit.
Launched five years ago this month, the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has accomplished little and done so at a snail's pace. None of the $800 million in financing that Emanuel claimed he had lined up from institutional investors to bankroll city projects ever materialized, with resources so tight that the trust on several occasions has been late by more than a month in paying staff and once by several months.
The city of Chicago’s pension funds only generated $90 million in investment income but paid retirees $999 million in 2015, according to Chicago City Wire.
Chicago is just one of several cities or states facing a crisis in which pension funds are not generating enough money to cover obligations to retired employees.
An analysis by Chicago City Wire of the six pension funds provides a frightening picture of the city’s economy. None of the funds generate enough money to cover retirement obligations to employees.
In total, Chicago residents are officially on the hook for $63.2 billion in government pensions, health insurance and other debt. That’s more than $23,000 per Chicago resident, or more than $61,000 per household.
Yeah, it's a great town to own say....a trucking fleet where the city pays you to not actually use the trucks in exchange for kickbacks to the politicians.
I worked at a company that had a "connected" guy in sales and the minute they started there in rolled the contracts with all kinds of government entities like the CTA etc. etc. etc.
Then Mayor Daley sold off the city parking enforcement to a private company in a sweetheart deal on his way out of office.
Sorry but I could never go back and live in such a corrupt place.
Nothing new. They had an ex-mayor die around 1947ish that had millions in cash in safes and had the city livery tax paid to his campaign fund.
Chicago politics are messed up, but I can't leave because it's the best place in the country to work in my industry (I could make the same money in NYC but with the much higher cost of living I'd never get ahead).
Kind of hard to do when the left whined about stop and frisk. I guess people rather enjoy weekend shootings during cookouts than the inconvenience of criminals being patted down.
When you convince criminals they're victims, they keep shooting. Imagine that.
Most of these shootings occur during the wee hours. Why are children and young teens congregating on corners at 3:00AM? Very last place you would find me at that hour in one of these gang- infested neighborhoods.
Here's one that occured in the middle of the day.
A few years ago, there was a mass shooting at a memorial service. Media went nuts.
Then the local alderman made news when he said " no innocents were shot/ died". It was a street memorial for a slain gang member. The gang colors were flying. Days prior to the memorial, the deceased's gang issued a dare on social media. No surprise that a rival gang took them up on it and burst out of an alley with guns blazing.
No surprise that a rival gang took them up on it and burst out of an alley with guns blazing.
So gang violence and weekend shootouts are ok now? So long as the intended victims are gang members? I guess the stray bullets who kill innocents or go through windows don't count.
Perhaps if liberal policies would stop subsidizing and financially incentivizing poor single parents, the kids wouldn't grow up without fathers to join gangs and shoot up their own neighborhood
Fathers are the missing equation here and there is only 1 political party that will pay you to keep a working father out the house.
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