{"id":40387,"date":"2021-09-23T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40387"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:44:09","slug":"a-warm-welcome-from-the-windy-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40387","title":{"rendered":"A WARM WELCOME FROM THE WINDY CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Chicago has taken out full-page ads in The Dallas Morning News to encourage Texans unhappy with the state\u2019s new abortion law and other issues to leave the state.<\/p>\n<p>The ads tout Chicago\u2019s tech and business sector as well as the city\u2019s more liberal politics, pointing to voting rights, abortion and an emphasis on science as a means to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Texas this year has adopted a new controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qhfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwdvnnm_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a=&amp;b=42639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qhfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwdvnnm_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42639&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632521014204000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHIQpePErWLwpqMBol5Ydigj_mbvQ\">abortion law<\/a>\u00a0that makes any abortion six weeks after conception illegal. It has also instituted new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdmdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqvyffq_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a=&amp;b=42639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdmdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqvyffq_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42639&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632521014204000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFglKqjSqunXpu9AxWtxwXmIbzojA\">voter identification laws<\/a>\u00a0that have drawn criticism from liberals who say they disenfranchise minority voters.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has also been a battleground over the pandemic. The state imposed a ban on school mask mandates that prompted a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqvyffj_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a=&amp;b=42639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqvyffj_krvlvvmhmjlsmhrmrrrr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42639&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632521014205000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvQoRU7ipi82cbn4gO-uYTiZS6KQ\">federal civil rights investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Chicago has taken&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40388,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387\/revisions\/40388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}