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Residents in Kane County/Dundee Township are making payments to eight pension plans.
Former CTA Chairwoman replaces Lois Scott.
Comment: He doesn’t say what they are.
The goal isn’t necessarily to win these races, but to improve the performance of the Republican ticket overall and build a base for success over the longer term.
A Chicago Public Schools employee stole more than $870,000 from two high schools in a scheme with four others after the principals of those schools gave him passwords to the district’s automated payment system, prosecutors said Thursday.
Nearly two-dozen retired Chicago police officers are collecting taxpayer-supported pensions, and are now back on the city payroll.
A report from the state auditor’s office has found more than $321,000 was paid for services to dead people through a program in the Illinois Department of Aging.
By: Mark Glennon* S&P yesterday downgraded Chicago’s general obligation bonds to A- from A+, which the agency said was three notches above “junk” level. That’s comparatively mild since, on Tuesday, Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday pushed Chicago’s credit rating into its “junk” category. Chicago plans to price offerings of $201 million and $182 million on May 19, as reported yesterday by Bloomberg. And guess who is one of the two agencies slated to rate the new offering, hired by the city? S&P. You take it from here. What a system. We’ve been saying that, when
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