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Danny Wirtz, chairman of the Chicago @NHLBlackhawks and co-owner of the @UnitedCenter, talks about The 1901 Project, a $7 billion plan to turn the parking lots around the UC into a new West Side neighborhood
We cover the 6,000-seat music hall now going up, building with the neighborhood instead of just near it, and the stewardship mindset his family has carried from the Chicago Stadium to today
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=EsRO3rg0…
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:25 Danny's Summer Job as a Roadie for Ministry
1:45 Early Music Memories in Chicago
2:41 Why 1901? Nearly 100 Years on One West Side Footprint
5:33 Phase One: Plazas, a Hotel, and a 24/7 Campus
9:15 Why 6,000 Seats Is Chicago's Missing Venue Size
10:27 Designing a Music Hall from Scratch
11:50 The Team Behind the Music Hall
13:45 Privately Funding 1901
15:31 Building with the Neighborhood
18:03 How Big Things Actually Get Done in Chicago
20:32 Getting Labor, Civic, and Business to the Same Table
21:32 What Has to Go Right Before Phase Two
23:10 Four Generations of Wirtz Stewardship
@dannywirtz @landonsloop
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Truly insane, probably won't have an opinion on gerrymandering again after this.
This is insane! Here is a map of yesterday’s Indiana House results if they were drawn under the attempted Republican gerrymander map from last Fall. Thank you to @Vulst3 for breaking down the data to make this map. The gerrymander could’ve netted us a 9-0 or 8-1 map potentially!
The last thing these lunatics care about is educating children.
Just minutes after losing the school board presidency and a board majority last night, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates was already invoking the threat of a teachers strike: “We also know how to walk a picket line.”
Among the 10 largest school districts in the country, teacher strikes are only legal in two: Chicago Public Schools and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The union has walked out on students five times in the last 14 years.
Incredible news for Chicagoans
The Chicago Teachers Union will end the night without a school-board majority.
For the first time in Chicago history, the schools will not be governed by the mayor’s hand.
That comes despite three huge structural advantages for the union in these races:
1. Most incumbents in competitive races (8) were chosen by CTU via 2024 election or appointment via Johnson
2. CTU drew the district maps.
3. The union collects $40M a year, only 17 cents of which is spent on teacher representation. The rest is spent on administration, overhead, politics, etc. This machine infrastructure does not show up in official campaign reporting.
Next question: how high will compute futures go?
Nationwide, 30 ballot measures sought to restrict data center construction. Restrict is leading 29 to 1.
These are non-binding measures, but given the size of the Democrats' victory, adding Texas governorship, and a 29 to 1 lead to restrict data centers, politicians that want to remain employed as politicians are going to heed these messages.
Damn, this is very cool to hear 🥳
We are opening an event center on Michigan Avenue in Chicago next year that can host 120 people.
We will be able to run many more events next year, and they'll be far more profitable.
On a typical 100-person event, we spend $70k+ on A/V production, food/bev, facility use, etc.
With our own event center, we can cut out every third-party cost except catering. A $100k event can turn a $30k profit into a $90k contribution.
This will let us run many more experiments on new event types and topics.
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The latest print of the Casey’s Pizza Inflation Index (CPI) is in.
2020: $2.50
2021: $2.69
2022: $2.99
2023: $3.29
2024: $3.29
2025: $3.39
2026: $3.49
YoY: +2.9%
Since inception: +39.6% (+5.7% annualized)
Purchasing power of $100 in slices: 40 (in 2020) → 28
Independent gas station pizza research you can trust.
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I love that scene in Good Will Hunting where Ben Affleck is talking to Matt Damon's titular character Will Hunting and he's like “you've got a gift man and you've gotta get outta this town and make something of yourself” and the gift in question is being really good at math and the town he needs to get out of is Boston, Massachusetts.
