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From Fox Chicago:
It may be the most painful symptom of the economic illness that has put Chicago at a tipping point: our unemployment rate is the highest in the Midwest.Lichte isn't blaming Illinois' high taxes for his firm's move. But he is fed up with the state's dysfunctional politicians. "But I'm not willing to pay for a bunch of people who just don't have a clue," he tells Fox Chicago.
It's almost two percentage points higher than the national average. More than 600,000 are looking for jobs, but can't find any. Hundreds of thousands more want to work, but have given up hope. Many local companies have also given up on Illinois and its fussing, feuding politicians.
One such company that has given up hope ironically has booming sales. It had three shifts working around the clock, needed a lot more room and the owner started looking. From Illinois' point of view, that's when things started to go south.
19 remotely-controlled cameras allow Deron Lichte to inspect every part of his new factory in Portland, Tennessee, even when he's in Crystal Lake preparing to move or sell the last remnants of the former factory of Food Warming Equipment Company, based in Illinois since its founding 60 years ago.
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