Editorial: Illinois and Donald Trump are no match made in heaven. But they'll have to work together.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Even in Chicago, which has proved a convenient and ill-thought punching bag for Trump ever since former Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel became its mayor, Trump found unprecedented levels of support.
80% : "Trump, of course, has responded in kind.
65% : Trump did very well this past election in Illinois.
59% : Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement that said of Trump and his vice president-elect: "We wish them well and hope they will govern for all of us."
57% : Trump is to be the next president of the United States with a mandate from the American people and more likely than not sufficient majorities to push through whatever he wishes to enact.
57% : Any economic success for which Trump might hope will run through here.
48% : Most importantly, Trump has done significant prior damage to Chicago's global reputation, and thus its economic vitality, just by opening his mouth and while he is of course free to reasonably criticize what goes on here and make impactful policy decisions, we've had it with the gratuitous shots and the cheap narratives.
38% : And the governor might want to remember that not only will Trump soon control the White House but Republicans will control the U.S. Senate and (odds are) the House of Representatives.
35% : Trump sliced away nearly half of the prior Democratic presidential candidate's advantage even though we, like many others, stated many times that his personal behavior and convictions meant that he was no longer qualified to be president.
33% : Even in Chicago where Republicans seem as scarce as a free parking space, Trump scored close to a quarter of the vote for president.
31% : When all is buttoned up, Harris will almost certainly have beaten Trump in the Land of Lincoln by less than 9 points.
25% : To wit, also in June, on Truth Social: "Sloppy JB Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois," Trump wrote.
11% : Joe Biden, his legacy at its worst ebb within a formidably long political career, said Thursday he had called Trump to congratulate him.
10% : ""He's a racist, sexist, misogynistic narcissist who wants to use the levers of power to enrich himself and punish anyone who dares speak a word against him," Pritzker said of Trump on June 9, while President Joe Biden still was the presumptive Democratic nominee.
5% : At the Democratic National Convention, where (unlike most others) he used almost his entire speech to criticize Trump, Pritzker called Trump "weird," "dangerous" and said he was "rich in only one thing: stupidity.

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