A question for Illinoisans

[ironglows]

  I was watching some videos on Youtube, concerning Alexander and Pulaski counties.  According to them, those counties are devastated, no jobs, towns scarcely a shadow of their old selves, yet taxes higher than ever.
  Places like Cairo and Danville were featured.  The moderator said that Danville is especially cursed, by having something called "Fair Oaks" housing complex.  He said some residents there have Chicago relation, who come south, commit crimes..then try to hide out at Fair Oaks before scatting back to Chicago.

  Question;  these once prosperous towns have no jobs, little commerce and a bleak future.. Is Chicago and it's politics, killing the state Illinois !

[BUGEYE]

  I was watching some videos on Youtube, concerning Alexander and Pulaski counties.  According to them, those counties are devastated, no jobs, towns scarcely a shadow of their old selves, yet taxes higher than ever.
  Places like Cairo and Danville were featured.  The moderator said that Danville is especially cursed, by having something called "Fair Oaks" housing complex.  He said some residents there have Chicago relation, who come south, commit crimes..then try to hide out at Fair Oaks before scatting back to Chicago.

  Question;  these once prosperous towns have no jobs, little commerce and a bleak future.. Is Chicago and it's politics, killing the state Illinois !

We moved from Johnson county to Pulaski county when I was 12.
We lived in Mounds which had white schools and black schools.
I could walk thru town with a rifle over my shoulder and a revolver on my hip and nobody said a word.
At that time there was plenty of jobs there and in Cairo.  Cairo had a good shopping area, and it was a great place to grow up.

Now, Mounds, Mound City, and Cairo are just cesspools of decadence that will never recover.
I try to not be racist, but, when blacks took over, the whole area sunk into those cesspools.

BTW, southern IL was once a sportsman paradise.   And they've got some huge deer.

[powderman]

I use to deer hunt down around Murpheesboro many years ago, good times. CHARLIE. 

[BUGEYE]

I use to deer hunt down around Murpheesboro many years ago, good times. CHARLIE. 

Yeah, I’ve killed two just south of there.  One was a 2 1/2 yo eight point that scaled over 200 pounds.
The other was a female fawn that I could have stuffed in my pocket.

[ironglows]

Those videos mentioned Mound city also.  What happened, did they just suddenly build housing projects in those rural counties, which were not prepared to accept such a sudden influx of population?

  If they built those projects there, where did they expect those people to find jobs?

  If they built them there, knowing most would not find work, that is just another STUPID move of big government endorsing crime..

  Any 90 year old grandma could have told them.."Idle hands are the devil's workshop !"

[BUGEYE]

Those videos mentioned Mound city also.  What happened, did they just suddenly build housing projects in those rural counties, which were not prepared to accept such a sudden influx of population?

  If they built those projects there, where did they expect those people to find jobs?

  If they built them there, knowing most would not find work, that is just another STUPID move of big government endorsing crime..

  Any 90 year old grandma could have told them.."Idle hands are the devil's workshop !"

I don't know if they have housing projects.
A while back I used some kind of map program (??) and actually looked at our house there that my Dad built, and what at one time was a showplace, was now slum-like in appearance.  blacks lived there and the whole neighborhood was in ruin.