Businesses Still Fleeing

And taking hundreds of millions in tax revenue with them:

• Chicago had fewer licensed businesses operating in the city in 2024 than during any year in the past decade, thanks to 17% of its businesses disappearing since 2015.

  Analysis of Chicago business license data shows the city was home to 54,135 businesses with an active license in 2015. A decade later, that number has dropped to 44,840.

  Among Chicago’s neighborhoods, the Magnificent Mile community on the Near North Side saw the largest percentage decline in active business licenses during the past decade, with the number falling from 1,600 to 784 last year – a 51% drop. 

So who are you going to believe, your own lying eyes or Coneahead's sycophantic shills? Downtown is a resembling a ghost town every single day.

You know, it's stories like these (with accompanying facts, figures and graphs), showing the overall incompetency of the political structure that could provoke a panic attack in some mentally stunted individual.