{"id":1533039,"date":"2022-06-29T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533039"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:34:18","slug":"enough-is-enough-business-owner-explains-why-he-finally-left-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enough-is-enough-business-owner-explains-why-he-finally-left-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Enough Is Enough\u2019: Business Owner Explains Why He Finally Left Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenough-is-enough-business-owner-explains-why-he-finally-left-chicago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533039&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/illinois\">Illinois<\/a> business owner Gary Rabine told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/skyrocketing-chicago-crime-small-businesses-corporations-pack-their-bags\">Fox News Digital<\/a> on Wednesday that he decided to stop doing business in <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/chicago\">Chicago<\/a> because of rising <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\">crime<\/a> and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Rabine \u2014 who owns 13 businesses \u2014 explained to the outlet that his employees and physical assets were no longer safe operating in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would do thousands of jobs a year in the city, but as we got robbed more, my people operating rollers and pavers we got robbed, our equipment would get stolen in broad daylight and there would usually be a gun involved, and it got expensive and it got dangerous,\u201d Rabine recounted, adding that security and insurance costs rendered the jobs \u201ctwice as much as they should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rabine\u2019s employees now work in the suburbs of Chicago and in nearby Wisconsin. \u201cWhat happened eventually is we said enough is enough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rabine, a Republican gubernatorial candidate for Illinois, is by no means the first business leader to leave Chicago in recent weeks. Ken Griffin \u2014 the founder of hedge fund Citadel and the richest man in Illinois \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wealthiest-man-in-illinois-moves-his-business-from-chicago-to-miami-amid-feud-with-democratic-leadership\">announced<\/a> that he would move his business to Florida. \u201cChicago will continue to be important to the future of Citadel, as many of our colleagues have deep ties to Illinois,\u201d he wrote in a letter to his employees. \u201cOver the past year, however, many of our Chicago teams have asked to relocate to Miami, New York and our other offices around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Griffin expressed concern about worsening crime in Chicago, noting that the city was a \u201creally difficult backdrop\u201d for attracting talent. Under the leadership of Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/lori-lightfoot\">Lori Lightfoot<\/a> (D), the city of Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lightfoots-chicago-records-797-homicides-in-2021-most-among-u-s-cities\">endured 797 homicides<\/a> in 2021 \u2014 the highest of any other American city.<\/p>\n<p>Rabine reacted to the news by saying he is \u201cconfident that Citadel was losing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want a great culture in your company you have to have people that love being on the team and they don\u2019t want to live in a violent area,\u201d he told Fox. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to live in a place where their kids can\u2019t walk to school safely and their wives and kids can\u2019t go shopping in a beautiful environment like Michigan Avenue which was once the safest place you could ever go shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citadel \u2014 which manages over $51 billion in investment capital \u2014 is the third major company to move its headquarters out of Chicago in the past two months. Construction machinery maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/caterpillar-inc-to-move-global-headquarters-out-of-chicago-area-into-texas\/2857142\/\">Caterpillar<\/a> and airplane manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joewalsh\/2022\/05\/05\/boeing-will-move-headquarters-from-chicago-to-dc-metro-area\/?sh=2ffb83d863cf\">Boeing<\/a> are respectively moving to Irving, Texas, and Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it\u2019s in the best strategic interest of the company to make this move, which supports Caterpillar\u2019s strategy for profitable growth as we help our customers build a better, more sustainable world,\u201d Caterpillar CEO Jim Umpleby said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the office of Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/j-b-pritzker\">J.B. Pritzker<\/a> (D) \u2014 with whom Griffin has feuded \u2014 said that \u201ccountless companies\u201d are still opting to stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to welcome those businesses \u2014 including Kellogg, which just this week announced it is moving its largest headquarters to Illinois \u2014 and support emerging industries that are already creating good jobs and investing billions in Illinois, like data centers, electric vehicles and quantum computing,\u201d Pritzker spokeswoman Emily Bittner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois business owner Gary Rabine told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that he decided to stop doing business in Chicago because of rising crime and other issues. Rabine \u2014 who owns 13 businesses \u2014 explained to the outlet that his employees and physical assets were no longer safe operating in Chicago. \u201cWe would do thousands &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1533074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}