We don’t know if Elon Musk abandoned California for Texas in a Tesla. He probably didn’t strap himself into a SpaceX rocket and fly across country. All we know is that Musk, like a lot of CEOs and entrepreneurs, is a strategic, flexible thinker. He’s not welded in place and neither are his businesses. Think of Musk’s high-profile departure from the West Coast as another warning to Illinois because businesses and people rocket out of this state routinely.

“California is great,” Musk told The Wall Street Journal, but then said the state had begun taking its economic success for granted — “a little complacent, a little entitled.” For all its sunshine and entrepreneurship, California, like Illinois, is regulation-heavy and tax-happy. Texas is the opposite. A few months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was “not worried about Elon leaving any time soon,” and now he’s gone. Musk, who built his fortune in the Golden State, put $62 million worth of California properties on the market and became a Texan.

After stumbling out of the gate early in the week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot began saying most of the right things about the scandalously botched police raid on social worker Anjanette Young’s home and the heavy-handed legal strategy the city used to try to cover it up.

Her words of regret, anger and determination were well-chosen, but it’s what Lightfoot failed to say that stood out: “You’re fired!”