“Chicago has an opportunity to define its energy future,” said Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, one of the sponsors of the measure to study municipalizing ComEd, in a statement. “[T]hrough municipalization Chicago could accelerate decarbonization, and implement a progressive rate structure that ensures better rates for working-class Chicagoans.”

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“Chicago’s handling of the presidential center violates the venerable public-trust doctrine, under which a municipality owes a duty of loyalty and care to its citizens analogous to a corporation’s duty to its shareholders. Cities must follow transparent procedures and work to maximize residents’ gains, not give huge public handouts to politically powerful private entities. Chicago officials should, in fact, feel a higher duty to provide fair value to the public because of the huge conflict of interest raised by the longstanding relationship between the Obama family and the city.”

Agents have questioned current and former village employees about a contract given to a politically connected security company and over possible wrongdoing in the suburb’s public safety department.

The district’s 2019 pension contribution totaled $809 million, of which $239 million is coming from the state and $430 million from a special pension levy. The teachers’ fund is at a 50.1% funded ratio.

Comment: Good to see the BGA finally acknowledging what’s a catastrophe in many suburbs, which we’ve been documenting for years.

“Ms. Preckwinkle ignores the overwhelming evidence that CCSA Kimberly Foxx is not working with the police, but against them,” FOP spokesman Martin Preib told Chicago City Wire. “Her bail reform strategies are part of that pattern, along with her willingness to release convicted killers on frivolous claims of wrongful conviction.”