{"id":76,"date":"2026-07-11T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:17:12","slug":"chicago-has-fallen-hard-and-fast-and-we-arent-shedding-any-tears-just-look-at-the-image-of-a-recent-piece-on-darren-bailey-in-contrast-to-chicagos-cover-on-jb-pritzker-pritzker-is-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"\u200bChicago has fallen hard and fast, and we aren&#8217;t shedding any tears. Just look at the image of a recent piece on Darren Bailey in contrast to Chicago&#8217;s cover on JB Pritzker. Pritzker is portrayed as a competent lawmaker who could be a contender for the White House. Bailey is depicted as some downstate yokel on a tractor desperately trying to win over Chicago voters. Chicago became an engine to promote progressive politicians.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago has fallen hard and fast, and we aren&#8217;t shedding any tears.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the image of a recent piece on Darren Bailey in contrast to Chicago&#8217;s cover on JB Pritzker.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker is portrayed as a competent lawmaker who could be a contender for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey is depicted as some downstate yokel on a tractor desperately trying to win over Chicago voters.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago became an engine to promote progressive politicians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/media%2FHM_CTe7XsAAqd1c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/media%2FHM_GxwMXAAAgg4R.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Jen (@IlliniJen)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chicago magazine\u2019s demise was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>What was once a political gatekeeper that produced hard-hitting journalism swerved far left and became virtually unreadable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it has been reduced to a latte-town cultural footprint that produces the left-wing doom porn that progressives desperately crave.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a sustainable model for journalism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/media%2FHM95B5JXwAALhYh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<footer>\n\u2014 <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/IlliniJen\/status\/2076011029813751814#m\">https:\/\/nitter.net\/IlliniJen\/status\/2076011029813751814#m<\/a><br \/>\n<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago has fallen hard and fast, and we aren&#8217;t shedding any tears. Just look at the image of a recent piece on Darren Bailey in contrast to Chicago&#8217;s cover on JB Pritzker. Pritzker is portrayed as a competent lawmaker who could be a contender for the White House. Bailey is depicted as some downstate yokel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}