Everyone's Leaving Chicago, Not Just the Cops

Second City Cop, via Chicago Contrarian, notes that On Chicago: Everyone's Leaving?!?!

Where to begin? How about those Bears?

The Bears tried to leave Chicago in the 1970s. The terms to break their lease were too steep back then, but that was then.

We warned, predicted, and pointed out for years, that based upon their previous attempt in the 1970's to move the team to :::drum roll::: Arlington Heights, the Bears would eventually tire of renting the smallest (and ugliest) stadium in the NFL with it's atrocious sightlines, poor amenities, zero naming-rights, revenue-generating ability — the list goes on — and finally pack up and move. The fact that they might have to pay a "penalty" amounting to a few tens-of-millions to break their lease is a mere pittance for a franchise expected to increase in value from $3 billion (with a B) to $5 billion upon completion of the move.

There is a whole list of stuff about the predicted move. And the fact that though it has been coming since the 1970s, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will be blamed.

And it isn't just the Cops and the Bears...

Billionaire Ken Griffin, Illinois' richest citizen, is thinking it's time to leave Chicago, too. Though for Griffin, it's more a matter of incorporating somewhere else and spending time at a different address. But Griffin had the audacity to actually blame :::drum roll::: crime! As if crime wasn't going down, down, down as Lightfoot and Superintendent Brown told us just a week or so ago.

For a look at the Crime in Chicago, see HeyJackass! The only crime stats for the Windy City you should believe.

There is more on increasingly hostile feud between the Mayor and The Cook County State's Attorney over the "Mutual Combatants" incident. (There are details if you are not familiar with that incident, at the first link at the top.)

It really was a wonderful place to live and work. Was, not Is. (The post on cops leaving is at this link.)