9-25-19 Chicago Goes From Bad to Worse

Nearing Midnight: Chicago Goes from Bad to Worse - Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

The City of Chicago is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. It is also a financial train wreck, with a debt so large it is set to replace Detroit as the city with the worst debt load. Chicago has billions in unfunded pension promises.

 

A recent analysis of the top 75 most populous U.S. cities by "Truth in Accounting's Financial State" gave Chicago a grade of "F" in its financial health and ranked it at the bottom of the list. The report said Chicago's debt burden was $40.5 billion, which would equate to about $45,000 for every Chicago taxpayer.

 

Chicago is also a basket case for racial strife. There is record black-on-black murder, but white cops are seen as the problem. The Jussie Smollett scandal made the racial discord only worse. The next time there is a real hate crime in Chicago, it's going to be impossible to know truth from fiction.

 

The city has just had an election to select a new mayor. The winner was former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot, who defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff. She swept all 50 wards in the city's mayoral race. Lightfoot will be the first openly gay person and first black woman to lead the city.

 

Rahm Emanuel, who has been mayor since 2011, made the race possible by announcing in September that he would not seek a third term. When a city's problems become so profound that even a powerful Democrat known as "the Godfather" decides to jump ship, you know that difficult days are ahead.

 

Lightfoot came in first in an election that saw a record 14 candidates vying to succeed Emanuel. Although a nonpartisan election, the candidates in the February main election were all attached in varying degrees to the Democratic Party. The Republican Party has virtually disappeared from the city, which is shocking for a city with so many problems.

 

In her acceptance speech, Lightfoot said that as mayor she would focus on investing in neighborhoods on the West and South Sides and bring transparency and accountability to City Hall. She also said she wants to end City Hall corruption and restore people's faith in government.

 

"Out there tonight a lot of little girls and boys are watching. They're watching us, and they're seeing the beginning of something, well, a little bit different," Lightfoot told a jubilant crowd at a downtown hotel. "They're seeing a city reborn."

 

I find it amazing that the citizens of Chicago could be so foolish as to elect someone who will obviously make the city's problems worse. She wants to give money to poor areas that have already put Chicago into a massive financial mess. The "transparency" is about removing the rule of law in the black regions of the city. Going forward, the crime rate can only soar. With Lightfoot fixated on any perceived offenses by law enforcement, the blood is going to run like rivers in the streets of the Windy City.

 

This growing pattern of wickedness and lawlessness that is so evident in Chicago is a warning of more to come. By rejecting God's Word as the ultimate authority in their lives, people are setting the stage for the downfall of our nation.

 

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

 

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them" (Romans 1:24-32).