Tuesday’s announcement by the Democratic National Committee was that it has decided to host its 2024 national party convention in Chicago, a city that has been devastated by decades of Democratic rule.
For 93 years, the Windy City has been governed by Democratic mayors. The current 50-member City Council includes zero Republicans. 17 seats are held by the Cook County Board of Commissioners; 16 of them are filled with Democrats. It is this unipartisan political culture which has swept the city that Paul Vallas was recently defeated as mayoral finalist. A lifelong Democrat, Vallas could not overcome campaign criticisms that he was a “Republican in disguise”.
So what have all these unobstructed Democratic governances produced? For starters, population flight. The city was home to a maximum of 3.6 million people in 1950, but it has fallen to an estimated 2.7million in 2021. For a century, the United States’ “Second City”, which was the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the country, has been #3. World In North America, it is #5 in 1900.
U-Haul trucks leave behind a mess. Chicago’s public pensions have a larger combined total of unfunded liabilities – north of 