^ Yeah, I'm sure you're probably right. It's the real thing.
Re your point about improved performance downstate (at least in places, but my guess would be increasing margins generally), something ardecila recently wrote, below, in the business/economy thread about hate for home state (sometimes even home city) resonates here:
"For Chicago, the hate is definitely aimed at the city. Suburbanites and downstaters both point to the city as the source of all ills, even though half of our dysfunction is from conservative rural-friendly policies being forced onto a vibrant dense metro area."
I think Bailey effectively stirred up both anti-city sentiment within the suburbs/downstate, and probably some anti-entire Chicagoland sentiment downstate, as their clearly is a lot of that. Fortunately the city and Chicagoland are as dominant in Illinois in population (and obviously a lot else) as they are! Ok, back to regularly-scheduled forgetting about him forever.
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