The City Of Chicago Shuts Down

The City of Chicago's non-essential services were closed for business Monday as the first of three "reduced service days" were implemented to save an estimated 8.3 million against a deepening budget deficit.

Yes, you read it right, the Windy City's projected DEFICIT (not the budget itself mind you) is projected to be as high as 300 million. The budget itself? Almost 6 billion with a B.

There was a time in this country that a million bucks was a lot of money.

There was an even more recent time when 8.3 million of them would even provide a tidy retirement for most anyone in the country. (Well, at least before Trump.)

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