What Kim Foxx Told Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson During Recent Meeting – NBC5 (Chicago)

Foxx said Johnson would be taking on a role "in a city that has not fully acknowledged or reckoned with its history of racism and what it does to Black leaders...His responsibility is to do the work with the full knowledge that it is not going to be fair, and a lot of folks in this room know that it's not going to be fair. But he has a job to do, and to elevate the voices of the people who put him there. Ken Griffin from 79th Street put him there, elevate his voice and don't try to chase those who didn't."

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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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