OT: Another one bites the dust

Jun 24, 2022, 2:02 AM

Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)

"Wealthiest Man In Illinois Moves His Business From Chicago To Miami Amid Feud With Democratic Leadership"

Ken Griffin of Citadel, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, announced that he would move his company from Chicago, Illinois, to Miami, Florida.

“Chicago will continue to be important to the future of Citadel, as many of our colleagues have deep ties to Illinois,” Griffin wrote in a Thursday letter to his employees, per The Wall Street Journal. “Over the past year, however, many of our Chicago teams have asked to relocate to Miami, New York and our other offices around the world.”

Griffin — whose $29 billion net worth makes him the richest man in Illinois and places him within the 50 richest men on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — has already moved to Florida. He hinted to The Wall Street Journal earlier this year that crime rates may have prompted his decision.

“If people aren’t safe here, they’re not going to live here,” he told the outlet. “I’ve had multiple colleagues mugged at gunpoint. I’ve had a colleague stabbed on the way to work. Countless issues of burglary. I mean, that’s a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city from.”

Under the leadership of Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D-IL), the city of Chicago recorded 797 homicides in 2021 — the highest of any American city.

dailywire.com

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Muddy3 years ago

Chicago is an awesome city, cool architecture, maybe my favorite city for food, great history, but it's got real problems with crime. It all starts with that cunt Kim Foxx giving murderers ankle braclets and letting him back out there to kill, assault, rob, rape again. Cook county has no answers for criminals right now and the South Side bullshit is going all over city right now. When I'm there you bet I got my head on a swivel.

Papi_Chulo3 years ago

Chicago; along w/ many Dem cities; have been corrupt Democrat-controlled cities for decades - they have just turned it up to "11' in the last couple of years mainly due to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)

Iknowbetter3 years ago

Lots of companies are relocating to Miami, but for other reasons. A lot of super rich CEOs bought homes in Miami during Covid, and now have decided to make Miami their primary home, and move the company to them, rather than commute back and forth. I believe this is also the case with Citadel.

twentyfive3 years ago

He’s moving to Florida for the same reasons that most rich folks do, no state income tax, the rest of the article is bullshit

Papi_Chulo3 years ago

The northern states have always had high-taxes yet many companies have stayed there for decades - the outward migration has picked up as of late as crime and dismal-governance finally has companies saying enough - look at what DeBlasio turned NYC into in just a few years - and Lightfoot in Chicago has been just as bad - both their cities became much-worse under them.

twentyfive3 years ago

^ NYC and Chicago are great places to live if you’re loaded, so’s Miami, you suppose he’s relocating his office to Hialeah, or Opa Locka, and he’s moving his home to Overton, C’Mon Papi be real buddy.

gammanu953 years ago

Chicago makes a fine example of how conservative democrat leadership (blue dog democrats) can be fairly successful and how left-wing liberal policies are absolutely disastrous. Hizzonor Mayor Richard M. Daley was a blue dog democrat. It is a known fact that the democrat machine in Chicago cannot be beaten, and that democrat machine has also hijacked state leadership in Springfield, turning all of IL into a liberal dystopia. Regardless, Daley led Chicago very successfully for over two decades, overseeing decreases in crime, increases in land values, financial institutions, culture, and tourism. He did this by being a loyal democrat but governing intelligently.

Rahm Emmanuel fucked all of that up by bringing in his crony democrat policies and having no executive qualities. His inept leadership hurt minorities the most, as they bore the brunt of increases in crime and municipal budget cuts. So what does a Chicago voter do when a liberal leader fucks up a city which had been doing well? They gooooo way woke left and elect someone with absolutely no qualifications or experience, but checks all other demographic boxes. that's how you get an aborted turtle like Lori who is absolutely destroying the city (and state), but refuses to accept any culpability or see any error because wokeness is more important than results.

It will always be Sweet Home Chicago but, until people wake up and smell the shit the woke left is shoveling, I have other places I'd rather visit.