Okay, so another Walgreens is pulling up stakes in Chi-town. Alderman William Hall is losing his mind, screaming about "first-degree corporate abandonment." Translation: he's pissed that a business is leaving because, shocker, it's getting looted like a Black Friday sale gone wrong – every. Single. Day.

Look, nobody's thrilled when a pharmacy closes, especially the elderly folks who need their meds. But let's be real, Walgreens isn't a charity. They're not running a soup kitchen. They're a business, and businesses tend to frown when their shelves are emptied faster than Hunter Biden's bank account.

Hall whines about how Walgreens "ran out" the local businesses back in the day. Boo-hoo. Welcome to capitalism, pal. If your business model couldn't compete with a national chain, that's on you, not Walgreens. Maybe instead of crying about the past, focus on making the present a little less Mad Max: Chicago Edition.

Raymond Lopez, another alderman, actually gets it. "Where was that anger when the stores in our communities were under years and years of assault by criminals allowed to shoplift, vandalize, and destroy neighborhood institutions?" Good question, Ray. Maybe Hall was too busy virtue signaling to notice the city crumbling around him.

Let's face it, "corporate abandonment" is just woke buzzword bingo for "we created an environment where businesses can't survive." It's like blaming the fire department for not putting out a fire you started yourself. The real crime here isn't Walgreens leaving; it's the city's leadership letting lawlessness run wild.

Walgreens closing up shop is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is a soft-on-crime, defund-the-police mentality that's turned entire neighborhoods into free-fire zones for shoplifters and vandals. And now they're surprised businesses are GTFO'ing? You can't make this stuff up.

So, spare me the crocodile tears about "medicine droughts" and abandoned elders. Maybe if Chicago spent less time worrying about pronouns and more time worrying about prosecuting criminals, Walgreens wouldn't be packing its bags. Just a thought.

The fact is that Chicago has become un-governable, and big companies are simply going to leave if they cannot reasonably do business in that environment. It is basic economics that the risks must be justified by potential rewards. Chicago is creating a massive amount of risk and very little reward with its policies.

The great irony here is that the exact policies that are allegedly for protecting marginalized groups are the policies that are actively hurting them. When a Walgreens closes, the neighborhood loses access to vital products and services. Furthermore, jobs are lost from the community, perpetuating an economic depression.

This cycle of decline will only continue until meaningful action is taken to combat lawlessness. Until then, businesses will continue to leave the city, and residents will continue to suffer the consequences. Blaming Walgreens is the typical distraction from the problems that are actually occurring.