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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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Uh-oh, there it is again: the perception of crime, or, in this case, “the perception of Chicago as a place with public safety issues …” Perception isn’t causing such a high rate of violent crime in Chicago.
The late Sherman Skolnick railed against this gangster family ( General Materials and General Dynamics). He reported on their criminal activities which went back generations.
All we’ve heard from the Civic Committee (distinct from the Civic Federation) in recent years is endorsement of a state tax increase a few months ago.
FRAUD ALERT: Civic Committee Of The Commercial Club Of Chicago — The Crony Capitalist Cabal In This City — Offers A Phony Non-Solution To Crime — One That Doesn’t Address Police Staffing, Nor Soft On Crime Non-Prosecution By Cook County’s Soft On Crime Fake Prosecutor Kim Foxx And Soft On Crime Fake Judges — Their Only Solutions Are More Failed Social Programs, And More Bad Investments In Neighborhoods Where Crime Has Driven Out Businesses Both Large And Small