Chicago Wrap-Up

Last post (I promise!) regarding our post-Oshkosh trip to Chicago.

Traffic was everywhere and always horrific. Sunday afternoon, 4:12 PM and Tuesday morning 9:05 am outbound (supposedly opposite the commute) to O’Hare:

This is what keeps me from loving big American cities in the age of Indian/Chinese population levels for the Lower 48. Cities offer a lot of great resources, but if reaching events, stores, activities, etc. requires 1-2 hours round-trip in traffic then only those who are extremely patient will be able to access city amenities beyond their own neighborhoods. The U.S. broke when we crossed the 250 million point (we’re at around 350 million right now, though Yale says nobody knows the true number). Public transit cannot be the answer because no matter how jammed the roads were, Google Maps always estimated the public transit time as 1.5-2X. Check out all of the red and yellow on a Sunday afternoon at 3 pm and just imagine how bad it will get during weekday rush hours:

Chicago has tremendous wealth compared to the typical city or region within the U.S. The majority of voters chose a candidate for mayor who promised, four years ago, to reduce homelessness:

Everyone in Chicago deserves to have a roof over their head. That’s not just the right thing to do morally, it’s a smart approach to keeping our neighborhoods safe and strong. … It is a moral crisis that on freezing January nights, we have 1,500 Chicagoans sleeping out in the cold. … it is an injustice that one-in-four Black students in Chicago Public Schools experience homelessness at least once during their lives … The status quo is unacceptable, and the people of our city deserve better. … We need a City Hall that will “Bring Chicago Home,” delivering real funding to house the unhoused and combat homelessness.

(It was a “moral crisis”, but he didn’t explicitly promise to stop being immoral and end homelessness? Maybe just reduce the immorality a bit?)

Here’s an unhoused Chicagoan enjoying the warmth of collectivism, directly in front of Neiman Marcus on the Magnificent Mile:

The demographic future of Chicago is solidly Islamic. Women without hijabs walk around with no kids. Women in hijabs and burqas always have at least 1-3 children in tow. Examples:

As the city becomes more Islamic, though, it curiously also becomes more passionate at Rainbow Flagism, which is mostly haram. Here, for example, the Intercontinental Hotel flying the sacred Biden-style trans-enhanced Rainbow Flag at the same height as the American flag (July 27, almost a month after the end of Pride):

Not everyone observes the state religion, however. The haters at the Trump Hotel fly only the American flag:

We stayed in Streeterville and enjoyed 360 Chicago, 1030′ above the street level:

Like New York City, Chicago has gone “Full Hamas” in its support for liberating Palestine by destroying Israel. Example:

The above-mentioned mayor wears Palestinian garb:

He characterized Israel’s counterattack against the noble peaceful Gazans as “genocidal” in a 2024 interview (Mother Jones).

What do Chicago’s Jews do in response to this? Take the obvious step of following Ken Griffin, formerly the richest resident of Illinois, to Jew-friendly Miami? No. They put up billboards on the highway telling Democrats and immigrants from all of the world’s most anti-Jewish societies to stop hating Jews:

What happens at the airport? People wear masks. My favorite is the lady in the center who (a) is traveling with an unmasked family member, (b) wears her mask comfortably as a chin diaper.

The monitor at the gate shows that the IATA code for the West Palm Beach airport won’t update to “DJT” (the FAA moniker) until August 18 and also that chasing frequent flyer status is fool’s errand. Of the at least 12 people whose status rendered them eligible for first class, only 1 was upgraded: