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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

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102 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 01:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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xyst ◴[03 Sep 25 04:42 UTC] No.45112308[source]▶
> … and that the city isn’t planning to finish replacing them until 2076, three decades past a federal deadline.

Wow, that’s awful for the _third_ largest city in the USA. Federal, state, local governments have failed in providing basic services.

Thanks, trickle down economics! Reaganomics has been a massive mistake.

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1. orochimaaru ◴[03 Sep 25 12:00 UTC] No.45114717[source]▶
If you live in Illinois and Chicago it’s not reaganomics or Trump or W or anything else. It’s plain and simple union corruption with democratic AND republican leadership.

Chicago has been consistently Democratic for as long as I can remember. The state government has moved from republican to democratic but except for Rauner even the republicans in the past have patronized the unions.