From WTVO
Ken Griffin, the richest man in Illinois, price $29 billion, says he’s leaving Chicago for Miami as a result of staff at his multibillion-dollar hedge fund, Citadel, don’t really feel secure resulting from crime.
In response to The Wall Street Journal, Griffin stated, “If folks aren’t secure right here, they’re not going to dwell right here. I’ve had a number of colleagues mugged at gunpoint. I’ve had a colleague stabbed on the best way to work. Numerous problems with housebreaking. I imply, that’s a extremely troublesome backdrop with which to attract expertise to your metropolis from.”
Griffin, who has already relocated, wrote a letter to his staff on Thursday, saying, “Chicago will proceed to be necessary to the way forward for Citadel, as lots of our colleagues have deep ties to Illinois. Over the previous yr, nevertheless, lots of our Chicago groups have requested to relocate to Miami, New York and our different places of work all over the world.”
The billionaire additionally stated Florida supplied a greater company setting.
Gov. JB Pritzker responded to Griffin’s announcement, saying to the WSJ, “We are going to proceed to welcome these companies — together with Kellogg, which simply this week introduced it’s transferring its largest headquarters to Illinois — and help rising industries which are already creating good jobs and investing billions in Illinois, like information facilities, electrical autos and quantum computing.”
Citadel follows Caterpillar and Boeing in transferring their headquarters out of Illinois.
