Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
In a typical workweek I take about eight separate Uber/Lyft rides up here in Evanston. Many drivers inform that they will no longer work in Chicago because of the increased crime… “It used to be great, now Chicago is dead… too much violence… are you kidding, I want to live…”, etcetera…
Some free advice for ride share drivers: don’t leave home without it.
No more shootings after January 1st because the criminals haven’t registered their guns and they can’t be used anymore
Ah, crime again rears its ugly head, and now the west side is a ‘Transit Desert’.