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Wirepoints held a press conference on with Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton), Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) and Allen Skillicorn (R-Crystal Lake) after testifying in front of the Illinois House Cities and Villages Committee about Harvey, North Chicago, and the broader downstate pension crisis.
Since January 2016, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s political campaign has spent more than $700,000 to purchase tickets to Chicago Cubs, White Sox and Bulls games.
Our own story on this is linked here. And check out the survey Crain’s has on whether you’d like to pay this tax. Thrilled, no doubt.
They’ve hired 25 recruiters in Chicago who are poised to add hundreds of employees in the Windy City.
A study by a psych prof may not provide the best answers on this, but judge for yourself.
“Why not simply tax the rich, redistribute their wealth to everyone else, and eliminate many of the unsexy economic obstacles to sexual flourishing?”
Ted was on Illinois Rising last week discussing the $21 billion in school district debt that most Illinoisans know nothing about. Illinois, with $10,400 in debt per student, has 70 percent more school debt than Wisconsin, 44 percent more than Iowa and 33 percent more than Missouri. Indiana’s debt load is just 2 percent more than Illinois’ own.
Read the comments. Even in far left Oak Park, people are close to grabbing the pitchforks.
Colleagues call him a true progressive in the Bernie Sanders style.
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