Originally Posted by
sylvia
I live outside of Chicago in a cook county suburb,and from my experience it is imploding. There are rows of empty stores, people moving out houses for sale. Taxes are going up some ridiculous fees like $101.00 to renew car registration in the state.If you live in Chicago your city sticker is $110 or something like that.I grew up as an immigrant in the city. But we never had handouts or welfare. Sanctuary cities pretty much are becoming immigrant communities with first generation problems and now the ICE problems. Inner cities lack resources , our state is without a budget for the second year, so money is not going for proper resources. I call it imploding pretty much here city wise and state wise. Our property taxes for a 1964 built 1000 square foot home almost $7000.00. Almost at 10 percent sales tax on food and goods and the popular 2.75% sweet tax.