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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
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- Subject: Re: Casion--Vote
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- References: <1993Jan21.163705.14673@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: DarkTower Software
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:22:33 CST
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- Jonathan E. Quist (jeq@i88.isc.com) wrote:
- : Do you really believe that Chicago would have annexed O'Hare if they didn't
- : expect to turn a profit?
-
- Do you really believe that O'Hare would be running at a profit if Chicago
- didn't annex it?
-
- : >the water supply that many suburbs drink from, not to mention
-
- : The city is shipping this water to the suburbs free, out of the goodness
- : of its heart?
-
- No, but does it have to ship it at all? Go dig your own well.
-
- : >Hey, I'm all for seperatism. Let Chicago not pay anything to the state
- : >in the form of taxes and the like, and we won't ask for any money from
- : >the state. Then let the suburbs get their own airports, TV stations,
- : >business centers, etc.
-
- : Thank you. We already have them.
-
- Who does? Hmmm. Aurora? Barely a suburb of Chicago. It's pretty far
- away. But if you compare their programming to WGN or WBBM or something,
- I don't think it's the same thing. Morton Grove doesn't exactly have
- a thriving board of trade, and I don't think Skokie has a big enough
- runway for 747's.
-
- : >The reason Chicago gets more money is two-fold: 1) it generates more money,
-
- : That makes sense. Chicago generates more money, therefore it needs more
- : money....
-
- How about it generates more money, the state takes it, and doesn't want
- to give any back?
-
- : >and 2) it has more services to support many of which non-Chicagoans take
- : >advantage of. Next time a suburban company has a business client fly in,
- : >have him fly into Aurora or Milwaukee and commute from there and see how
- : >long he stays a client.
-
- : Considering that it's largely business that keep Aurora, DuPage, Pal-Waukee,
- : and Waukegan airports open and viable, I'd say they like it.
-
- If they liked it that much O'Hare would not be generating the large amount
- of profit you say it does.
-
- : >Drink some water pumped out of your ground instead
- : >of water cleaned by Chicago's water department (which doesn't have a lead
- : >problem like most of the suburbs I might add).
-
- : I do, and we don't. Last I heard, the Chicago building code still requires
- : lead supply pipes into buildings. Or has that changed in the last 10 years?
-
- It doesn't require lead pipes, it requires metal pipes so that the pipefitters
- wouldn't be out of a job. You can't use PVC is the only restriction. The
- only way lead gets into Chicago's water supply is from older buildings which
- have lead pipes inside, and not the supply pipes.
-
- : >But I get it now. You want a suburb of 40,000 to get as much money
- : >as a city of a couple of million. Seems fair to me.
-
- : No, I want a city of a couple of million to be willing to invest as
- : great a percentage in itself as my town of 19,000.
-
- I'd like it, too, but the truth is that Chicago invests more in the
- state than the state in Chicago.
-
- -Louis
-
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