Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin took aim at Chicago again on Wednesday, calling it “a failed city-state” during a business conference in Miami.
Griffin, who announced in 2022 that he was relocating his Citadel Securities headquarters from Chicago’s Loop to Miami, made the remarks at the American Business Forum. Citadel manages more than $65 billion in assets.
“Dinner in Chicago would be about crime, about cronyism, about failed policies in the state,” Griffin told the audience. “It is so refreshing to be in a city where people talk about tomorrow.”
He went on to contrast his new home with Chicago…