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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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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One of the upsides to the cold harsh winter days we can encounter in Chicago. Let’s hope the weather stays cold until another crisis takes their mind off of this one. This incident is awful but none of these incidents ever warrant Antifa style destruction.
Even Antifa won’t come to Chicago in the winter. Besides the cold, it’s got this sour bouquet that permeates the entire city.
They hit the cop’s lotto, lots of overtime to spike their pension another $500,000 or more. Almost enough to buy the Punta Gorda, Florida luxury home and luxury car.
Thanks a lot taxpayers your too good to me.
Where can you buy a luxury house and car for almost 500k? You must live in a very poor area to think that’s luxury. That won’t even buy you land on the water. You need to set you sites higher and try to better yourself. There is a whole world of opportunity out there to make some money. Give it a shot.
I have nice place on the water, the gutter drain from the highway over me as I live in a box, a big cardboard box under a roadway bridge. It’s nice and cool in the summer down here in Punta Gorda, Florida. Sometimes I have dinner guests, rats, but nice rats, they are so furry and cuddly. I saw a retired cop the other day and asked him what he paid, for his house, “12 million but I made that much in overtime for one week”. Wow, I should have done better than that standing on a corner with a… Read more »