WHY I AM LEAVING ILLINOIS FOR GOOD! I give up. Corruption King House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton and my state Rep. Ann Williams all win.

I give up. House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton and my state Rep. Ann Williams all win.

I've lived in Illinois nearly all my life and have lived in Chicago since 1988. I'm a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and have mostly been proud to say I'm a citizen of Chicago.

But the Democratic machine has changed all that. Fiscal mismanagement and runaway spending coupled with an unsustainable pension system and dirty politics have left us with a $100 billion pension deficit and a budget more than $7 billion in the red. Madigan and his goons say that Gov. Bruce Rauner refuses to compromise, even while Rauner has agreed to raise taxes. But Democrats refuse to accept any of his badly needed pension and business reforms. Their solution to all of our problems are ever-increasing taxes on a citizenry finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet. Illinoisans are asked to tighten their belts while the government and public employees get more and more.

So I give up. Effective Aug. 31, I will leave Illinois, my proud home for nearly all of my life, for the fiscally sound state of Indiana. I'm taking my ample income and the taxes it generates with me. I see no solution to the fiscal problems Illinois faces with those currently in power. And so I give up, Illinois.

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