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Jun 12, 2024
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The House is out and politicians are hitting the road.

WINDY CITY BOUND — Premier DOUG FORD is headed stateside — and he’s already commiserating about the traffic.

Obligatory jersey swap. Photo: @fordnation

Via the Star: “As he signed a new memorandum of understanding to boost the $29 billion in annual trade with Illinois Governor J.B. PRITZKER in Toronto on Tuesday, Ford commiserated about the logjams.

“‘There’s one thing I can tell the folks here what we have in common, really, gridlock traffic,’ said the premier, who worked in Chicago while running a division of his family’s label business.

“‘Believe me, I lived years going down to Chicago downtown on the Stevenson or I-90 and you try to go on the Don Valley parking lot or the Gardiner, same situation. We’re jammed,’ he said. If you know, you know.

Road trip! “With Ford set to visit Chicago on a trade mission, Pritzker joked: ‘I’d be happy to take you to a Blackhawks game to show yo…

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