Illinois has joined California (and not for the first time) in their blue-state legislative insanity, and IlGov Fatboi is leading the charge:
Starting January 1st, 2024, Illinois landlords will be required to rent or sell property to illegal aliens. Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed SB 1817 into law in late June, which will add “protections in the Illinois Human Rights Act for housing regarding immigration status protection and discriminatory advertising.”
Did I mention that Illinois also passed legislation, which Pritzker also gleefully signed into law, extending standard driver’s license privileges to illegal aliens?
Illinois Democrat State Sen. Ann Gillespie led the effort to expand housing rights to illegal aliens, absurdly claiming that the bill will ensure that illegals aren’t “unjustly denied housing.”
“Someone’s background should not disqualify them from buying or renting property.”
Almost without reflection, I can think of five reasons why illegal residence (which has nothing to do with “background”, by the way) is a very valid reason for disqualification.
To my Ill-Annoys Readers (and I think you know who I’m talking to): it’s time to leave the state, or actively start seeking employment- and residential opportunities elsewhere so that you can. Your state is fucked, California-not-so-lite, and that’s the beginning and end of it. As I say to recalcitrant South Africans: you don’t want to be in the line for a seat on that last helicopter on the rooftop; get out while you can.
Look, I know that it’s not an easy decision: I myself decided to flee Chicago only after much thought, soul-searching and anguish, especially as Connie really didn’t want to leave. We even looked at northern Michigan for a while (I wouldn’t now, but that’s a different discussion), but eventually decided on Texas because Texas.
Ultimately, we were driven out by the combination of horrible gun laws, high taxes and a Marxist congressional representative (Jan Schakowski), but even when we lived in the NW burbs, our state senator was… the above-mentioned Ann Gillespie. All those factors forced us to leave. And that was then. Now? Huh. Like a flash.