McDonald’s Corp. calls Chicago dwelling, with its company headquarters and a few 400 eating places, however CEO Chris Kempczinski issued a frank warning Wednesday concerning the metropolis’s crime and social deterioration. “All over the place I am going I’m confronted by the identical query lately: ‘What’s happening in Chicago?’ . . . There’s a common sense on the market that our metropolis is in disaster,” he stated, and he’s proper.
The fast-food chain moved its headquarters to the Loop from the suburbs in 2018, and Mr. Kempczinski estimates its financial contribution to the town at $2 billion a yr. However lawlessness is taking a toll. “It’s felt most importantly each single day within the eating places,” he advised the Financial Membership of Chicago. “We’ve got violent crime that’s taking place in our eating places . . . we’re seeing homelessness points in our eating places, we’re having drug overdoses which might be taking place in our eating places.”
