Shrinkage
For the third straight year, Chicago and Cook County are losing population - and the trend is accelerating:
What could possibly be the reason? High taxes? Crushing debt? Corrupt politicians? Out-of-control crime? No accountability for any of it?
You know what city grew by almost 7,000 residents? Detroit. We are't sure if that 7,000 included fugitive Eddie Hicks though...it might only be 6,999.
You know what city grew by almost 7,000 residents? Detroit. We are't sure if that 7,000 included fugitive Eddie Hicks though...it might only be 6,999.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
68 Comments:
If you look at it downtown and good neighborhodd are gaining people. South and westsidd arr losing people. Check the data
Chicago is in its death throes because of corrupt politicians.
After this past primary...its now clear that all hope is lost. If fat boy gets in...we are no longer swirling the bowl.
You know, maybe the democrats bought stock in all of the moving companies.
Ha ha.. I left 3 years ago when retirement came... it's nice to look at a shithole from another state. I say I hope Rahm is re-elected, cause he is better off in Chicago. Like hell if I want him to leave that shithole
Move out, those illegal aliens want your houses so they can be established as voters under the City ID plan.
Good... so traffic should lighten up right?
How many of the ew residents pay taxes?
Detroit may be worse off right now, but it hit bottom and is actually on the way up.
Can anyone say the same for Chicago? Chicago is still headed in the wrong direction.
Keep on raising taxes Toni... keep the city infested with crime there Rahm... has any one even inquired if the millennials can even reproduce? Aren't most of them sterile? Cause Rham, you may not need to build any scrools or hiring anyone who teaches gender studies-đ
The number is larger than that, but assholes are sucked into the city. Let's find P(x) as The statement should be read P(x) is a tax paying citizen. Then let's find G(x) or the asshole who sucks up other people's hard earn income. You will find out quickly that slowly more tax payers are leaving. My neighbor for example, posted his house for sale 2 days ago. I am just hoping he sells his home to some decent people... he is high tailing it to Arizona.
Rahm why is my neighbor leaving our demacratic utopia? I say our because we made this utopia or was that verbage that obama was messing around when he said it
Count me out. I am leaving the state in 6.5 years. I hope the Politicians and the Voters who put them in are happy here. This place no longer has my values. I'm moving to a red state. They coddle the criminals, give away free money and want to regulate guns not punish the bad people using them.
Add to that figure, the number of small Businesses leaving the "Shiitty". Taxes, Parking Enforcement by the Department of Revenue that borders on harassment,Red Light Cameras, and of course crime, makes running a business in Chicago extremely unattractive. And note, that parking enforcement is seldom done on the South or West sides of the Shitty, because they are afraid, and realize that those residents will not pay. Then there is the issue of "Politics". Someone I know owns an auto repair, and the taxes on that business are unbelievable. To exit onto the alley from his business, he has to pay for a permit. The hanging sign requires insurance and a City fee, as does the lettering on his windows. Then the Ward Committee shakes him down for tickets to their golf outing and annual dinner, and the poor guy does not even live in the same Ward as his business, though he does live in the city. Add all this to the property tax, and sales tax, not to mention other taxes at the state and federal level. And then there are the New Breed of Chicago residents, Snowflakes who are offended if you raise your voice to them. Recently, one of his employees was mopping the business floors, when a potential Millennial customer came into the shop. The owner shouted at her to STOP; so that she would not slip on the floor. She shouted back: "That's No Way to Talk to a Client! I am going to give you a Bad Yelp!" And you wonder why Real Chicago Residents and businesses flee? Baby "G"
Legals moving out...Illegals on the rise.
Getting the fuck outta here as soon as possible. I only have 5 years on the job but you canât pay me enough money to live in this shithole city. The fopâs weak ass doesnât do anything about residency. Not sure what the FOP does anyway, but they take money from my check once a month. I hope they get 10 eligible recruits this testing period so they realize no one wants this job.
Itâs a lot like South Africa.
The smart ones left between 1994-2017.
Now the remnant white populationâs land is worthless because the ANC announced itâs just going to take it.
Because: Trump
Rahm will tell you it's Trump's fault
McCarthy will tell you it's Trumps fault
Toni will blame Trump
JB will blame Trump
Kwame will blame Trump
There's more SHRINKAGE going on in Schlitcago here than when George Costanza got out of the pool....
So, since population is down. Shouldnât the number of aldermen be reduced too?
Eddie Hivks. A blast from the past. He should have stayed in Costa Rica.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
At some point the pensions are bankrupt,wth!
Damn spell check. Eddie Hicks. Nice guy though.
If the primary elections were any indication this trend will continue.
It can't be corruption in our state, city or county government. After all Lisa Madigan was the attorney general and I'm sure she would have rooted the corruption out.
Signed complaint = plausible victim of criminal act
Absence of signed complaint = implausible victim of criminal act
Observed criminal act in progress = dealer's choice
Reported criminal act in progress = investigation possibly warranted
Enforcement of civil law, court order/warrant present = must execute
Enforcement of civil law, absent court order/warrant = flip a coin
Courtesy to all presumed = exceptions made via contemporaneous assessment
Smile for the nice citizens = do the best you can, at the moments you choose
Have a nice day and......thank you.....for your cooperation......
This is what a liberal shithole looks like an increase in the decrease. The only people increasing the Northside is section 8.
Count me out. I am leaving the state in 6.5 years. I hope the Politicians and the Voters who put them in are happy here. This place no longer has my values. I'm moving to a red state. They coddle the criminals, give away free money and want to regulate guns not punish the bad people using them.
3/23/2018 04:31:00 AM
6.5 years = 78 months = 338 weekes = 2,373 days, give or take the odd leap year = 56,940 hours, ditto on give or take = awwww....fuck it......
If you are so confident that your heart will be still be beating, your mind will not be a bitter, wasteland of memories too assinine to remember and far too vivid to forget, by all means, stick around and suffer.
After all, you got allllllllll the time in the world to dilly dally......
Keep on raising taxes Toni... keep the city infested with crime there Rahm... has any one even inquired if the millennials can even reproduce? Aren't most of them sterile? Cause Rham, you may not need to build any scrools or hiring anyone who teaches gender studies-��
3/23/2018 02:22:00 AM
Socialism = Dictatorship via cabal
Dictate who pays, which is anyone and everyone who has anything to be taken from, use to bribe those who gleefully receive anything and vote for those who provide such.
Scheme works only when allowed by submitting to the taking from.
Precisely what the Founding Fathers shredded them redcoats about.
We, here in city and county, might as well be speaking da King's English......
Mount Greenwood many homes are up for sale take the pension and spend it other then cook country Vote Republican and vote ald matt 19 th ward out of office in 2019 Chicago will be Detroit in a few years time to sell time to move retire police officer
Chicago is in its death throes because of corrupt politicians.
3/23/2018 12:40:00 AM
Too many of those, not enough fodder......
If you look at it downtown and good neighborhodd are gaining people. South and westsidd arr losing people. Check the data
3/23/2018 12:22:00 AM
The Data.
The prescious, prescious Data.
Oh, sweet Data....
Where would we be without ya?
Why, we wouldn't know ANYTHING!!!!!
Praise the Data.
Worship the Data.
The Data is all.
The Data is everything.
Thus Spake......the Data.........
(cue 2001: A Space Odyssey main theme)
Haha. Damn. Thatâs cold.
Keep on raising taxes Toni... keep the city infested with crime there Rahm... has any one even inquired if the millennials can even reproduce? Aren't most of them sterile? Cause Rham, you may not need to build any scrools or hiring anyone who teaches gender studies-đ
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Reproduction isnât worth it unless that is your ticket to millions of dollars, ex: divorce/alimony/child support. Marriage and money investment on other human beings(chilârens) is a waste of hard earned resources. Try to always invest for the future, an example of that would be abortion, super investment, as it ultimately saves you 18 years of slavery. These days itâs about making money and retiring wealthy.
Signed,
Acquire assets, not liabilities.
So when do we see a proportional drop in the number of Aldermen and County Board members?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If you look at it downtown and good neighborhodd are gaining people. South and westsidd arr losing people. Check the data
Nobody here wants to believe the truth. I agree with you. Downtown and near north and near south neighborhoods are growing. Apartments are being built at record rates
They forgot to add me to the one leaving, it 20, 0024
correction 20,094
So some of the people aren't that stupid after all.
Heed the siren's warning!
Golf Tango Foxtrot Oscar
Population loss and job loss must be the fault of Trump. Can't be the fault of the entrenched Democratic machine.
Count me out. I am leaving the state in 6.5 years. I hope the Politicians and the Voters who put them in are happy here. This place no longer has my values. I'm moving to a red state. They coddle the criminals, give away free money and want to regulate guns not punish the bad people using them.
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Amen brother, add me to the list. Leaving in 3.5 yrs, and the calendar can't flip fast enough. Already bought property in the Lone Star State, and ready to go as soon as I hit that 20 yrs +1. The city/county is gorging on tax payer money to the point that every year will yield some new tax, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. First the bag tax, then the sugar tax, soon the bicycle tax ....then who knows, the sky is the limit with these vultures.
God willing, we'll be out of here this summer and leave this mess of a state behind. But after seeing the results of our last voting day, I wish there was a way to make the people who vote like idiots have to stay and endure what they create. -Lakeview Mom
Well, when all the middle class leave, and the politicians can't figure out why the lights no longer come on, or the toilet won't flush, don't allow them to leave the city!
J.J.
Money bomb the NRA/ILA tomorrow!!! if you care about your gun rights.......
https://donate.nraila.org/Donate
Momma if that's moving up. Them I'm moving out
Say who ?
Funny how we donât lose âvotersâ but gain phantom totals.
Never a shortage of non-taxpaying deadbeats whom seem to be filling the void.
No jobs, no prosperity here, just free housing and entitlements.
Keeping yâall in chains as Uncle Joe Biden once said.
The next fake census wonât be of any help, just redraw the ward boundaries and maintain the voter fraud.
These days itâs about making money and retiring wealthy.
Signed,
Acquire assets, not liabilities.
3/23/2018 09:54:00 AM
Apparently, Ebenezer hasn't had his Christmas Eve dream yet........
.....or does he think he's McDuck?
Nobody here wants to believe the truth. I agree with you. Downtown and near north and near south neighborhoods are growing. Apartments are being built at record rates
3/23/2018 10:41:00 AM
Build it and the lemmings shall flock to buy it.
There's a sucker born every minute.......
Come to......CHICAGO!!!!!
Live in......CHICAGO!!!!!
Die in......CHICAGO!!!!!
All this, can....be.....YOURS!!!!!
And.....accomplished within less than a fortnight.......
(Death insurance not included in purchase price)
UST estimated about ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars in lost taxes with the 13,500 taxpayers leaving city. So how much extra are you willing to pay to make up for shortfall. Thank Rahm for the opportunity to donate more of your hard earned money to support those leeches who will not get up every morning and go to a job.
Would the last taxpayer leaving itsy be sure to turn out the lights and lock the door.
Shit-heads, taxes, Rahm, prickwinckle, dart, shit-heads
Anonymous Anonymous said...
UST estimated about ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars in lost taxes with the 13,500 taxpayers leaving city. So how much extra are you willing to pay to make up for shortfall. Thank Rahm for the opportunity to donate more of your hard earned money to support those leeches who will not get up every morning and go to a job.
3/23/2018 08:08:00 PM
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Soda tax just will have to go in effect and more camera lights
I'm off to CROWN POINT area in may,goodby to a tax of 7500 ayear to same type home with larger lot for 2400 a year,come on and join me,thousands are.old rtf copper,
Anonymous said...
Nobody here wants to believe the truth. I agree with you. Downtown and near north and near south neighborhoods are growing. Apartments are being built at record rates
3/23/2018 10:41:00 AM
Build it and the lemmings shall flock to buy it.
There's a sucker born every minute.......
Come to......CHICAGO!!!!!
Live in......CHICAGO!!!!!
Die in......CHICAGO!!!!!
All this, can....be.....YOURS!!!!!
And.....accomplished within less than a fortnight.......
(Death insurance not included in purchase price)
3/23/2018 07:46:00 PM
This is the blog's resident real estate troll/
house-flipper who got caught with his pants down
during the real estate bubble bust doing his usual shilling...
The next bubble is coming so they need as many
suckers as possible to bite.
People here are in a deep sleep. They live in a fake ,make believe world. Brainwashed into believing that this place is great. They would rather believe a lie than deal with reality or face the truth.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
UST estimated about ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars in lost taxes with the 13,500 taxpayers leaving city. So how much extra are you willing to pay to make up for shortfall. Thank Rahm for the opportunity to donate more of your hard earned money to support those leeches who will not get up every morning and go to a job.
That estimate isnât worth the paper itâs written on. They have no idea about who the 13,500 were. They might actually saved the city over 100 MILLION if they were they residents that donât contribute to the city but draw on all their services and benefits, not to mention the county. Costs a lot for the police, courts, hospitals,etc
âIf you look at it downtown and good neighborhodd are gaining people. South and westsidd arr losing people. Check the dataâ
Exactly youâre losing a populace that paid minimal property taxes and statistically were overly reliant on city services.
But that doesnât compute with a certain populace that canât see the forest for the trees.
Count me out. I am leaving the state in 6.5 years. I hope the Politicians and the Voters who put them in are happy here. This place no longer has my values. I'm moving to a red state. They coddle the criminals, give away free money and want to regulate guns not punish the bad people using them.
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Amen brother, add me to the list. Leaving in 3.5 yrs, and the calendar can't flip fast enough. Already bought property in the Lone Star State, and ready to go as soon as I hit that 20 yrs +1. The city/county is gorging on tax payer money to the point that every year will yield some new tax, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. First the bag tax, then the sugar tax, soon the bicycle tax ....then who know
Great plan hope it works out. Me personally I would rather pay the 7 cent bag tax if Iâm to lazy to drive a few extra blocks to a suburb or pay the sugar tax which was eliminated so there is no sugar tax and save the almost 5% state income tax on my and my wifeâs pension that you will be paying in Texas on our $120,000 combined pension. Once I pay that 7 cents a bag on the first 85,000 bags a year at 7 cents a bag I will then start to worry
âMount Greenwood many homes are up for sale take the pension and spend it other then cook country Vote Republican and vote ald matt 19 th ward out of office in 2019 Chicago will be Detroit in a few years time to sell time to move retire police officerâ
Better hope it doesnât become Detroit otherwise youâll be shagging carts in the Walmart parking lot while wifey walks up and down the Interstate collecting cans. It never ceases to amaze how collosally ignorant braintrusts like you are. Must come with the Calumet College in criminal stupidity you obtained.
No need to worry about the shrinkage. We will have another an increase of 50,000.
Going, going, gone.
This is exactly what happen to Detroit.
And it took 30 years or better to see Detroit to climb back out of gutter.
I finished my Masters program using the Detroit bankruptcy plan.
No I am watching it happen in fact here in Chiraq
For you young CPD employees take a look at 016 and 022 for the amount of homes on market. TIME TO BUY?
All the retirees are leaving.
Our Mayor is off on a three day trip to see why an island needs politicians after a Hurricane. Nice warm weather?
The city is going to loose more tax base and the property taxes will climb. All the while why the crime increases.
This is just like Ground hog day.....
Bill Murray keeps waking up to the same NIGHTMARE.
We wake up to Rham and now McJersey on morning news saying the same things over and over again.
I guess it all depends on whoâs leaving.
Great plan hope it works out. Me personally I would rather pay the 7 cent bag tax if Iâm to lazy to drive a few extra blocks to a suburb or pay the sugar tax which was eliminated so there is no sugar tax and save the almost 5% state income tax on my and my wifeâs pension that you will be paying in Texas on our $120,000 combined pension. Once I pay that 7 cents a bag on the first 85,000 bags a year at 7 cents a bag I will then start to worry
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Thanks. It will work out great because Texas has NO state income tax, plus land we bought has agricultural tax exemption which means lower property taxes. Since you have a very healthy combined household income, you will not mind handing more of it over to Jabba Boy Pritzker when he is elected governor. He and his prog lib friends running the city/county/state will work overtime to find more ways to take your money. Continue to enjoy that drive to the burbs for your gas and groceries though.
The problem is corrupt politicians and their gang bangers who keep them in office, high taxes, corrupt businesses that discriminate against women and minorities and everything is too expensive.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Great plan hope it works out. Me personally I would rather pay the 7 cent bag tax if Iâm to lazy to drive a few extra blocks to a suburb or pay the sugar tax which was eliminated so there is no sugar tax and save the almost 5% state income tax on my and my wifeâs pension that you will be paying in Texas on our $120,000 combined pension. Once I pay that 7 cents a bag on the first 85,000 bags a year at 7 cents a bag I will then start to worry
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Thanks. It will work out great because Texas has NO state income tax, plus land we bought has agricultural tax exemption which means lower property taxes. Since you have a very healthy combined household income, you will not mind handing more of it over to Jabba Boy Pritzker when he is elected governor. He and his prog lib friends running the city/county/state will work overtime to find more ways to take your money. Continue to enjoy that drive to the burbs for your gas and groceries though.
I stand corrected and you are 100% correct. My position was based on the basis of Texas taxing your pension and you were right, they donât I should have done some fact checking. When u r right u r right and when u r wrong u r wrong
holland, mi here i come
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