City blows deadline to make all polling places accessible, deeply frustrating disabled voters 30 years after ADA became law – Chicago Sun-Times

Fewer than 10% of the city’s polling places were marked as accessible for people with disabilities on Election Day — and a third of the city’s 50 wards had no sites considered compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The issue is “out of [the board’s]” control given they largely rely on property owned by the city or state, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election said.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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