Good News!!
Crain’s Chicago Business reports: Google is in talks to lease some 500,000 square feet in the Merchandise Mart, sources say. The deal would include a rooftop deck. The Internet search giant, looking to move employees from the Libertyville headquarters of its recently acquired Motorola Mobility, has an office for tech workers near the Mart.
via Chicago Tribune.com.
Chicago is ripe for a tech explosion. Of course we have a serious debt problem in this city, and state. That will make some companies too scarred to move/expand here. But if we can get that under control Chicago can become a major player in the tech space.
If Rahm and Quinn can get our pension issues under control companies will relocate here from California. Our taxes in Illinois are way too high and complicated — a/k/a suck — but the situation is far worse in California. It’s freakishly expensive to do business there.
This could just be the beginning of hope. Now we just need to fix race relations, balance the budget, improve our schools, hire more police, find a State’s Attorney who will actually ask that criminals be placed in prison, find an Attorney General who’s not related to the most corrupt politician in the state, and fix an aging infrastructure.