Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, July 15, 2016.
Indiana may be Chicago’s neighbor but that doesn’t mean its conservative Republican governor, Mike Pence, is friendly toward the city or Illinois. Pence, who’s now widely reported to be Trump’s vice presidential pick, doesn’t have many nice things to say about Illinois’s economy. Indiana has openly courted Chicago businesses to move across the border to avoid taxes. “I love going to Illinois to talk about Indiana’s success story,” Pence posted on Twitter in 2014. “It’s what we call low hanging fruit.” [DNAinfo Chicago]
