EPISODE · Jan 16, 2026 · 17 MIN
Boeing DUMPS Chicago HQ for $22M — $143M Loss Proves Dems RUINED Illinois
from News For Reasonable People · host Sean Reynolds
Boeing just dumped its Chicago headquarters for $22 million—the same building they bought for $165 million. That's what happens when you choose a city run by fiscal lunatics like "Let's Go Brandon" Johnson and where your employees need to dodge looters on their lunch break. The aerospace giant is basically flushing its Chicago presence down the drain, keeping just 70,000 square feet to house the skeleton crew shutting everything down. Meanwhile, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot—who oversaw the city's finances—can't even pay her own $11K credit card bill despite pulling in over $400K in salary and retirement withdrawals in a single year. You can't make this stuff up.Boeing saw the writing on the wall: anti-business policies, crushing taxes, and a leadership more interested in virtue signaling than creating conditions where companies actually want to stay. Is anyone surprised another major corporation is fleeing Illinois? What does it say when a prosecutor-turned-mayor can't manage her own finances, let alone a city's?
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Boeing just dumped its Chicago headquarters for $22 million—the same building they bought for $165 million. That's what happens when you choose a city run by fiscal lunatics like "Let's Go Brandon" Johnson and where your employees need to dodge looters on their lunch break. The aerospace giant is basically flushing its Chicago presence down the drain, keeping just 70,000 square feet to house the skeleton crew shutting everything down. Meanwhile, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot—who oversaw the city's finances—can't even pay her own $11K credit card bill despite pulling in over $400K in salary and retirement withdrawals in a single year. You can't make this stuff up.Boeing saw the writing on the wall: anti-business policies, crushing taxes, and a leadership more interested in virtue signaling than creating conditions where companies actually want to stay. Is anyone surprised another major corporation is fleeing Illinois? What does it say when a prosecutor-turned-mayor can't manage her own finances, let alone a city's?
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Boeing DUMPS Chicago HQ for $22M — $143M Loss Proves Dems RUINED Illinois
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