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“The looming threat of a Chicago Teachers Union walkout confounds rational work-a-day folks who can’t understand why a government contract packed with a 16 percent pay hike is strike-worthy.”
The report also includes discussion of Illinois’ comparatively low consumer debt level.
If you were holding out for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to finally show her fiscal reform credentials, give up now. The new labor contract she’s offered to the Chicago Teachers’ Union will bring the district and the city another step closer to bankruptcy.
“Imagine these three different groups of workers all being on strike together in the city of Chicago. That has the potential of being an extraordinarily disruptive moment.”
Illinois No. 1.
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton on Tuesday released a federal search warrant related to last week’s FBI raid of Democratic state Sen. Martin Sandoval’s legislative offices, but virtually every key detail about what agents seized from Sandoval’s statehouse office was blacked out.
Federal agents who blitzed several southwest suburban towns last week were asking questions about a politically connected red-light camera company, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
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