OT: Another one bites the dust
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
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.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wealthies…
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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.