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Former Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton's son is leading an effort to save and repurpose his father's childhood home. Last Sunday, one of those potential sites, Proviso East High School, dedicated its Social Justice Room to Hampton, a 1966 graduate. The dedication in the school auditorium featured impassioned speeches by Illinois senate majority leader Kimberly Lightford and house speaker Chris Welch, among many others.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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As anyone spoken to the unofficial mayor of Maywood? Chicago alderman Jason Ervin. Maybe he could add the property to his dope empire? If the volume of comments is any indication! I don’t think anyone cares.
A great WOKE idea. Let’s take down the Christopher Columbus statue. Have the Legislative Commission debate whether or not to allow a Ronald Reagan statue in the state capitol. Tear down the Menard and Douglas statues. Take Washington and Jefferson’s names off of schools. And let’s have a memorial for a guy who was openly racist. Advocated Hate, Hate Hate of white people. Promoted arming revolutionaries and violent protests. Oh, but he ran a free breakfast program so that makes it all ok.
Any double– or quadruple — double standard here?