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New financial statements released this month show actual results are far different than portrayed in budget negotiations and the press.
Cook County, Illinois, has joined the parade of lawsuits filed against Facebook in the wake of the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal—the county is believed to be the first public entity to sue the social media giant and its former London-based business partner.
How ’bout that? From the Crain’s editorial board, no less. Aside from pensions, they said Pritzker needs to put up details on the tax increases he wants. And there’s this: “Perhaps the most troubling unknown of all, however, is what each candidate would do to stimulate job growth and improve the business climate in this state. Rauner has had three-plus years to show us what he can do, and who’s not disappointed? Pritzker has less than eight months to convince us he can do better.” Progress. Yeah.
Granite City, Ill., where United States Steel is calling back 500 laid-off workers to restart one of its two idled blast furnaces at a mill there.
What’s happening in Chicago is part of a national movement that will only intensify, according to Green Street Advisors.
U.S. parking needs will be
Comment: The good news is The Machine is sputtering. The bad news is the free-stuff-for-everybody Berniecrats may replace it.
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“He pretends he’s not involved in any races, and then he tries to do it by the back door,” said Balanoff, who is head of Our Revolution Illinois, a group that grew out of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
“They’re ashamed of what they do, so they try to hide it. But in the end it all comes out.”
Comment: Pritzker is centrist? Well, maybe by today’s standard.
There is a bright spot, and it’s directed at us here in the Fox Valley, where, unlike DuPage, which experienced losses the past two years, both Kane and Kendall counties enjoyed population gains in 2017.
Comment: And perhaps the most dishonest.
Bingo. Put up or shut up.
Two state audits have found that Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration hasn’t recouped $76 million in overpayments to private insurers handling Medicaid claims dating back five years.
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