Re: Catepillar CEO considers moving plant and/or headquarters out of Illinois Archived Message
Posted by 3's and D's on March 29, 2011, 12:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Catepillar CEO considers moving plant and/or headquarters out of Illinois"
When I said: St. Louis is the stupid one in all of this. Wisconsin and New Jersey as well as Michigan have gone on a media blitz with this. STL should be courting every Chicago based business there is. StL misses the boat again with its parochial 'not in my backyard' thinking. Not that I agree with this blitz to attract Illinois businesses, but if Chris Christie can open his big flytrap - why can't people in St. Louis? I know Slay is a Democrat and all, but his interests and Pat Quinn's would be exactly on the same page. Because if St. Louis attracts business from Illinois - but from more than 150 miles away, there could still be benefits to the Metro East. Except for some bridge tie ups - the Metro East is quite a good place to be located. It has the feel of a metro area, but the towns have their own unique feel. It's a series of small towns rather than an amalgamation of streets that extend from the central city. Most people of means have found their way to West ST. Louis county and St. Charles County - but many people have been looking East. So say we could somehow rook United/Continental from O'Hare to Lambert. IT would help all of us 'downstate'. But then from the dream I wake up.
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