Lived in Chicago proper for 10 years. Mostly worked in DuPage county and in Evanston though. If you are in a decent area/neighborhood, Chicago is still a really great city. Not without multiple problems of course.
Chicago was able to hide its ills for a long time.
By reaming the burbs, of course. The taxes, up there, are ridiculous.
TheMastersNemesis (5,970 posts) Mon Oct 24, 2016, 04:10 PM
3. I Grew Up In Spfld, Ill. Downstate Has Always Been Very GOP. Never Learn.
Were it not for Chicago Illinois would be red most likely. They will never learn down state. They are poor [sic] and will remain that way as long as they choose their GOP overlords.
Heh..... jackass. Springfield, huh? That explains a lot. No douchebag, "down yonder" in Little Egypt, the population was FDR Democrat, but not New Dealers. They were Blue Dogs. VERY Conservative. You asswipes in Springfield just LOVED that there were still old-time holdovers that would vote Democrat ....
.....because daddy was a Democrat, grandad was Democrat, great grandad was a Democrat, great,
great, great......... blah, blah, blah.............I heard that enough times to make me as ill as you are insane. Here's a fun fact for you. There was still a, dying yet still active, KKK enclave in West Frankfort, in the early 80's. Guess what they were? Not Republican, asshole. That all changed..... care to guess when?
They died out. Oh, we're GOP now. Even our Democrats vote, mostly, against the Madigan Junta. Hell, they're too frightened to put their party affiliation on yard signs. Democrats have killed the only employment in this area. Coal mines (we sit on more BTU potential than Saudi Arabia. Far more.) and medium scale farming. What little manufacturing there was, was subsequently wiped out by your Chicago cronies. Regulation and taxation.
government pouge. People down here are poor BECAUSE OF YOU and they know it. You want to take whatever little they acquire to pass on, you are taxing them to death to fund Chicago and you keep jacking property taxes without any commensurate services (which we really don't want, anyway)
I can't possibly say that enough. We want you to ..... vanish. Just, go away and leave us alone.