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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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“We’re very lucky that we live in Chicago which is a sanctuary city and Illinois which is a sanctuary state” NO, and NO. Virtue signaling has a price and it’s beginning to show a little bit. Expect major tax increases over the course of the next few years to pay for all this. Agenda 2030 is well underway.
Folk, I want to add two phrases to the National Spelling Bee contest; Illegal Alien and Public Charge.
One more- Border Jumper(s)
Same Edgewater community supports “sanctuary city” status, so seems appropriate there should be a migrant shelter there too.
“Hate has no Home” in Edgewater residents mindset, but sometimes your political rhetoric and virtue-signals come back to bite you. There are already many immigrants living there, so cultural adjustment should be relatively easy.
I have a co-worker/friend that is raising his family in one unit of a converted three flat in Edgewater rather than move to the ‘right-wing suburbs’ (shows how little they know the suburbs). He and his wife are increasingly becoming unhinged progressives. I’m sure that they support the illegal immigrants in theory (people cannot be illegal!) but likely have reservations about an illegal immigrant depot two blocks from their home. I saw him several months back and he asked if I still believed there was fraud in the 2020 election as a wide to poke back a deplorable. I loaded… Read more »
It’s hi,arious, the virtuous are suddenly shown unintended consequences. Like the tribune failing to understand a school. System that can’t teach basic reading might be bad for thevnespapers. Huh Whaaat!
Good for Edgewater. I hope they max out the space in the Armory. I just hope the economic migrants keep / spend some of the money in Chicago. Sending it back to Nicaragua instead of paying back to Chicago seems a bit unfair.