Traumatizing robberies and violent crime continue to go up in Chicago this year, hitting a six-year high compared to the same time last year. It’s crime in neighborhoods perceived as safe, sometimes taking place in broad daylight, that’s driving the increased fear among Chicagoans and suburbanites.
Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
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Isnt this guy the beloved SEIU, AFSCME financial apologist? What a buffoon.
Always someone else to blame for their failed ideology.
Ralph, it’s your Democratic run wards, cities, counties, and states that have failed blacks for decades by encouraging the destruction of the family and reliance on the state.
Clearly Black Lives don’t Matter to Dems. Only black votes. The evidence permeates the “institutions” your party has run forever in our nation’s inner-cities.
The motivation for your hand-wringing in a presidential election year is obvious to an increasing number of Americans, black, brown, and white.
I believe it’s inequitable and unjust to take hard earned local tax dollars from the suburbs and downstate, and redistribute it to Chicago.
There is more than enough money funneled into education but most of it is going to salaries-healthcare-maintenance-pensions-construction/etc and not into the classroom. Total education costs in Illinois from all sources (mostly taxpayers) is around $28-$30 billion. $14-15K per student for 2 Million students. State minimum requirements per pupil is approx $6,500. Here in Rockford private schools charge about $7K vs 15K public. We have found out how ill prepared public schools are for at home learning even with $30B annual budget. Yet there is still not enough money.