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[Section 108 @fromthe108]

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[Section 108 @fromthe108]

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[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

This is how our state govt. continues to destroy Illinois. The Chicago Bears, leaving for Indiana is just the latest example.

[Coach Satunas @CoachSatunas]

To anyone celebrating the Bears moving to Indiana because you think it saves us tax dollars: please wake up.

I hope you’ve been paying attention since 2022. This isn’t a victory; it’s a disaster. First it was Caterpillar, Boeing, Citadel, Tyson, and TTX. Now a $6 billion franchise is advancing a move across the state line because Illinois politicians refuse to create a competitive business climate.

When multi-billion-dollar corporations and their highest-paid executives flee the state, they take their massive tax revenues with them. Who do you think is going to pick up the tab for the state's massive liabilities when they're all gone? Hint: Look in the mirror.

And if you think the bleeding stops with corporate HQs, look at how our tax dollars are actually being prioritized. While state leadership claims we don't have the funds to incentivize major revenue-generating businesses to stay, state audits reveal that Illinois has spent an estimated **$2.5 billion to $2.8 billion** on state-funded healthcare, housing, and support services for non-citizens and undocumented immigrants over the last few years alone. Our politicians are actively funding massive cost overruns for non-citizens while letting our tax base walk out the door.

For those wondering how we can possibly have a massive housing shortage when our state's overall population has been declining since 2020 (White, 2023)—it's simple math. Population decline doesn't automatically mean empty houses when the state completely stops building.

Thanks to Illinois’ suffocating zoning laws, red tape, and the highest property taxes in the nation, new housing construction permits fell by 13% over the last five years. Available housing inventory in the Chicago area has plummeted by a staggering 54 since 2019. We have an existing deficit of over 142,000 housing units because the state has made it too expensive and heavily regulated for builders to build and for regular families to afford (Aurand, 2023; Corinth & Dante, 2022).

We are living in a state that chokes out supply, drives up home prices by 49%, taxes the middle class into oblivion, and spends billions on non-citizens while watching our biggest economic engines wave goodbye on their way to Indiana.
Stop cheering. Start paying attention.

### References & Sources
* **Illinois Demographics & Net Migration Trends:** Research from the University of Illinois Extension's Farmdoc Daily tracks how post-pandemic population dynamics, domestic out-migration, and low birth rates have driven continuous population decline in Illinois compared to neighboring states (White, 2023).

* **National & Local Housing Shortages:** Data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition documents the massive multi-million unit deficit in affordable housing options across municipal areas, driven by surging costs and a precipitous decline in overall rental and real estate vacancy rates (Aurand, 2023).

* **Regulatory Obstacles to Housing Growth:** A study published in the SSRN Electronic Journal details how strict zoning parameters and local municipal regulations function as a "regulatory tax" that severely suppresses housing stock expansion, compounding shortages even in areas facing negative net domestic migration (Corinth & Dante, 2022).

* **Chicago Housing Infrastructure Analysis:** The Metropolitan Planning Council outlines the regional constraints on the production and management of both private and subsidized housing units within northeastern Illinois (Lenz, 2023).

* **State-Level Non-Citizen Fiscal Outlays:** Official state budget presentations and audit reporting from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) detail the state-funded Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIA) and Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIS) program expenditures, which drove the multi-billion-dollar non-citizen support infrastructure costs.

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@redsteeze Real & Spectacular

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

13 forever belongs to Ozzie Guillén.

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@thekapman a 25 minute segment with Jesse and you gave the White Sox three minutes… Nice job.

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@messycarroll Milwaukee Brat House, whose on Third

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@savemeishbia Claudell Washington

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@KenWo4LiFe 1B Konerko
2B Durham
3B Ventura
SS Guillen
C Fisk
LF Kittle
CF Lemon
RF Ordonez
DH Thomas
SP Buehrle
Closer Thigpen
Bench Eric Soderholm, Dye, AJ, Alan Bannister & Carlos Lee

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Melania rocking with KISS at the new Trump Kennedy Center!🔥

[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@KevinCooney Why not Buerhle?

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

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[Jim B. @jimbo3499]

@scottmerkin I would add Juice Cruz scoring the winning run to clinch ‘83 Division winner.

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