Schools should receive taxpayer dollars only if parents willingly choose to send their children to them. Schools that consistently fail to...
Dreams, Plans, and Reality: A Critique of Chicago Metropolis 2020
February 1, 2002
Chicago Metropolis 2020, produced in 1999 by the Commercial Club, attempts to tell us who should do what to make the metropolitan area a more nearly ideal place. It is concerned with the six counties-- Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will--that contain nearly all of the population and jobs in the official nine-county primary metropolitan statistical area. This critique subjects some of the report's important hypotheses to economic analysis.
