Chicago made steel once. And business, both small and big business. It was a town for traders, men who took risks and didn’t care what others thought of them.

Chicago was once the hog butcher to the world, the place where cattle and grain fortunes could be made.

It is not the same town now. The public schools raise the children, many of whom lag grades behind standard reading comprehension levels. And in mathematics they lag farther behind already substandard national averages. The standards will be lowered again, lest the Chicago Teachers’ Union members develop hurt feelings.

The CTU elected Brandon Johnson as mayor even though Johnson advocated defunding the police during this latest violent crime wave. The left wing public employees unions, the CTU and the Service Employees International Union now run the show. They control the city’s politics with their iron progressive fists.

And Chicago’s kids are set up for failure–crime, violence and prison.

[That city is a doom loop, in the living, bleeding flesh. ~ Beege]