Posted on 01/03/2018 7:38:52 AM PST by KeyLargo
Pretty much all the collar counties are effed. McHenry is still ok.
Lake, Cook, DuPage and Will all are having a demographic change. Conservatives have been and, are moving to western counties or out of Illinois.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has just as Mayor Daley pushed minorities out to the suburbs through handing out vouchers.
Rahm's plan as well as his elite donors has focused on gentrification and providing tax breaks to businesses and new residents of the Loop, River North and the Gold Coast at the expense of middle class Chicago taxpayers.
Kennedy accuses Emanuel of ‘strategic gentrification plan’ to force blacks out of Chicago
Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy on Wednesday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” aimed at forcing African-Americans and other minorities out of Chicago to make the city “whiter” and wealthier.
“I believe that black people are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally by a strategy that involves disinvestment in communities being implemented by the city administration, and I believe Rahm Emanuel is the head of the city administration and therefore needs to be held responsible for those outcomes,” Kennedy said during a news conference about gun violence in North Lawndale.
“This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities. What choice do people have but to move, to leave?” Kennedy added. “And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller, and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter.”
I think they are doing this in some states as regards welfare recipients, specifically in Wisconsin and Maine which is making it very difficult to be a parasite and stay when their are better options in Illinois and Massachusetts respectively.
Yeah, some evil stuff going on. Even some of the smaller far away rowns are being polluted...as far away as Dubuque, IA and the Quad Cities. McHenry Co did go for Trump 50 to 42. Wonder how long that will last.
PS
Kendall county for Trump too...46 to 45.
A couple of years ago (during Bammy’s reign) we saw a YUGE influx of folks coming to Texas, from Chitcago/IL.
I often wondered if they received vouchers, of some sort, to make the move down to this red state. All expense paid move/set up, etc until they could get settled on the welfare system, here.
I don’t know about now, but there was a big influx of welfare recipients that moved from Chicago up to Kenosha and Milwaukee because of higher payments. But Wisconsin made changes in their welfare payments amounts to equalize with Chicago.
Very aggressive enforcement will cause the scammers to go elsewhere and take their liberal voting habits with them.
Thanks KeyLargo.
Can’t recall all the details but I know when I sold my home last year I was required to pay the town I left! Damn stupidest thing I’d ever heard.
Do you know how that began? I was told that Cicero (I think that was the town) had to settle a claim where a motorcyclist was killed due to a stop sign being down - so in order to come up with the funds to pay off that lawsuit, they began charging people when they sold their homes. Once they got away with that, other towns looked at it and said ‘why not’?!
I didn’t realize, or hadn’t heard, that you can avoid said payment if you stay within the same town - or whichever it is you’re stating here.
Can’t wait to leave this state for good - in due time I shall and oh how happy I will be.
Commentary: Hello, exodus deniers: No, it isn’t Illinois’ weather
Kristen McQueary
Jan 4, 2018
While imposing a stiff prison sentence on former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, U.S. District Judge James Zagel contemplated an issue that, just over six years later, continues to debase this state’s prosperity.
“In the United States, we don’t much govern at gunpoint,” Zagel told the courtroom on Dec. 7, 2011. “We require willing and creative cooperation and participation to prosper as a civil society. This happens most easily when people trust the person at the top to do the right thing most of the time, and more important than that, to try to do it all of the time.”
Corruption at the top tears and disfigures the “fabric of Illinois” and is “not easily or quickly repaired,” Zagel said.
Trust in government is essential to civil society — not only governance that is corruption-free but also competent and responsible. Unfortunately, much of our leadership in this state is neither. Taxpayers know it and they’re giving up. They are fleeing Illinois.
It’s one thing to harbor natural skepticism toward government. It’s quite another to take the dramatic step of moving your family, your home, your livelihood to another state to escape it. But it’s happening.
The naysayers and deniers blame the weather. They eye-roll the U-Haul rebellion. They downplay the dysfunction. Good riddance to those stingy taxpayers, they trumpet.
But that is a shallow, ignorant and elitist viewpoint that dismisses the thoughtful and wrenching decisions thousands of once-devoted Illinoisans have made.
For four years in a row, Illinois has lost population in alarming numbers. In 2017, Illinois lost a net 33,703 residents, the largest numerical population decline of any state. That’s the size of St. Charles or Woodridge or Galesburg. Wiped off the map. In one year.
Demographers pinpoint Illinois as an outlier. Even states losing residents to out-migration generally ameliorate the loss with growth from new residents moving in and steady birth rates. But Illinois is shrinking in all categories.
On social media this week, we asked the Tribune Editorial Board’s followers for feedback on the Illinois exodus. Here is a sample of their answers:
Excerpt - read at:
The taxpayer migration continues from the Land of Ever Higher Taxes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/illinois-drives-people-away-1513125224
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