In this assignment, I had to send a letter to the 47th Alderman of Chicago. I wrote in the letter how more local businesses would be benefitial to the community. The following is the actual letter sent to Alderman Ameya Pawar. Small adjustments such as my name were changed in this post.
Ameya Pawa, 47th Alderman
47th ward office
4243 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618
November 15, 2013
Dear Alderman Pawar:
In this area of Chicago, in which am referring to Lincoln Square, I believe a slight improvement could be made. Although this may be the case as of now I am going to introduce myself, my name is VG, a student at GCE (Global Citizenship Experience) and in a unit (2) we are studying the Gandhism of Swadeshi, which is the local and global/national economy. Ownership of land, items, or creatures defies and disapproves of Swadeshi.
Around Western, there are plenty of stores, but there’s the problem, large franchises that end up receiving more money than the community. Money that goes into large franchises like Jewel end up receiving money that then goes to the large corporations that own those stores. Alot of the money is taken out of the community, although local businesses don’t do this.
The loss of money means that more will be needed to be earned in order to replace what was lost or taken out of the community and even more to increase value. The larger franchises earning money makes this part of town stay at one specific value rather than a preferable increase. It’s a one-sided chain through money. With this said, you can already visualize or at least think of the benefits of having more local businesses.
Local businesses are already residents so their money would stay in the the community. This also brings up social communication, then there are two benefits; the recycled money that would increase the money earned because not as much would leave and therefore increasing value upon this area. In a way, it’s as if rather than having a straight road towards the receiver, there’s a road that curves back to the supplier.
Overall, there are many reasons as to encourage and influence more local businesses. Common stores end of sending out the money to the corporation that owns them, leaving town value at a stalemate. While if there are more local businesses, a recyclage of the money will make the value that’s already owned will generally increase.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
VG
