tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post5218930167222137649..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-48380869828053832642016-03-05T20:39:46.896-05:002016-03-05T20:39:46.896-05:00It used to be downstate population used to equal the Six Counties (Cook, Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane, McHenry) - after a lot of the agricultural implement industry shut down in the 1980&#39;s and other industries cut back or left Illinois for other states/countries now the population balance is heavily tilted towards Chicagoland area. Many downstate cities are shells of their former selves.Sir Hailstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301073859882785758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-30929165517966661562016-03-04T22:43:03.883-05:002016-03-04T22:43:03.883-05:00Why would anyone go to Chicago? The traffic is horrible. It&#39;s full of weirdos, foreigners, wackos, oddballs, waif-men, Boystown, Cubbies. It&#39;s impossible to drive there. There are red light cameras. Cops are everywhere. Liberals are everywhere. And it snows.<br /><br />No, thanks.<br /><br />Big billboards in Vegas offer machine gun shooting. Orlando has an ocean nearby. Both have palm trees.<br /><br />Chicago has outlived its usefulness and now has wimpy men eating vegan, Paki, and whatever other oddball goofball trendy food the waif-men are into, this year.<br /><br />Chicago men used to eat pizza.<br /><br />Bye, Chicago. You died with Harold Washington.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-70383684908103236232016-03-04T20:24:48.424-05:002016-03-04T20:24:48.424-05:00Gary, in your time as a downstate Illinois resident did you ever notice how Chicago got what it wants first, and the rest of the state gets whatever is left? Really pissed off a lot of folks in my east central Illinois city. I&#39;ve heard a lot of folks outside of central Indiana looks at Indy the same way. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28382720394417536672016-03-04T09:14:25.406-05:002016-03-04T09:14:25.406-05:00Legoland with dollars pilfered from the public treasury is not progress. It&#39;s unConstitutional.Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86472480657331338372016-03-04T08:07:13.693-05:002016-03-04T08:07:13.693-05:00more shiny new buildings downtown and another 9-figure trough for the cronies in the construction and engineering business to feed at? sounds like a win-win to me. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com