From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: chi.general
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Subject: Re: Casion--Vote
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:22:33 CST

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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