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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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“It takes a village to raise a child.” I don’t think Kam understands what this means. In the African village, monogamy did not exist, and often, no one really knew who their child’s father was. The men went off and did men things while the women raised the children collectively. Because your neighbor’s child may unknowingly, or even knowingly be, your own child’s half-sibling. Kam is also ignorant. He really believes that underserved Chicago neighborhoods lack activities for kids to do? Try growing up in some no name suburb or podunk exurbs. There’s quite literally nothing to do, so kids… Read more »
The big mystery is the cities sitting on approx $400 mil in covid $ that Lighfoot administration commented to youth violence prevention that remains largely unspent because city can’t find any nonprofit it trusts or are effective. Will Johnson simply hand over the $400 mil to his pals at ctu? Or spend on CPD OT? The state & feds have $millions more in covid anti-violence bucks to spend. ASTOUNDINGLY ZERO REPORTING!!! What’s going on??
I takes a Mom and a Dad in a God centered family to raise a child. Period.
Amen