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Originally Posted by the urban politician
In the past, Chicago wasn’t laden with such ballooning debt and pension costs, which eat away more and more of the budget. Fiscal mismanagement and corrupt deals have created an albatross for the region. I wouldn’t be so sure that we will build our way out of this.
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The *problem* has been blown totally out of proportion by coastal media projection.
We would have already seen major effects in Chicago if a particularly destructive trend were beginning. NYC has had
two catastrophic life-threatening flooding events in the past 10 years alone.
In Chicago, the 1992 Loop flood is still the most notable flood in living memory (whereas basement flooding is mostly the yearly nuisance that Chicagoans have dealt with since forever)
Rising lake levels are entirely a Park District problem because there is no proof that water will rise far beyond the existing barriers. And would be solved in the worst case scenario by a simple cheap earthen dam since Chicago soil is not that permeable.
Rogers Park and South Shore are just examples of bad urban planning. Even in the 1800s, property built directly on the water had issues with waves and storms. That’s why the Illinois Central tracks were built- to protect the Loop from Lake Michigan.