Chicago mayor, interim police superintendent respond to Memorial Day weekend violence – WGNTV (Chicago)

“We are all grieving today,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said after Wednesday's City Council meeting. “What we saw this weekend was a manifestation of community disinvestment, poverty, trauma that our city has struggled with for far too long.”
2 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
vb
2 years ago

We can all look forward to fours years of drivel from our new Chicago Mayor. He’s the low IQ mayor elected by low IQ voters. We all know the city is going to burn while the mayor holds a press conference calling the rioters “silly kids.

Poor Taxpayer
2 years ago

Talk is cheap, have been hearing the same old story as thing continue to get worse. How about actually doing something about it. Like putting the cops on the beat and stopping it. Old Mayor Daily did not allow this to happen, the cops were storm troopers back then. Today’s cops drive by crime and do not get out of their cars.

SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER

Home Page Signup
First
Last
Check what you would like to receive:

FOLLOW US

 

WIREPOINTS ORIGINAL STORIES

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.

Read More »

WE’RE A NONPROFIT AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DEDUCTIBLE.

SEARCH ALL HISTORY

CONTACT / TERMS OF USE