
Chicago’s Friday Bunk Dump – WP Original
By: Mark Glennon* Fridays in the summer are a great day to dump news you don’t want scrutinized, as reporters will tell you. Today, we got a new financial report from the city, the actuarial reports for its police and firefighter pensions and news of a private offering by Chicago’s school district. The Report First, the city released a carefully written, glitzy, Annual Financial Analysis, linked here. At least they put it online this year, a departure from the past, but that’s probably because it’s such meticulously prepared misinformation. Hooray, said most headlines and Mayor Emanuel in his cover