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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.
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.
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