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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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The MSM of Chicage worked for decades to alienate their readership. They deserve all they’re getting now. That they haven’t gone bankrupt yet is the 8th Wonder of the World.
Mainstream media in Chicago can’t shield their Chicago audience from first-hand knowledge about street-crime as more people get victimized, day after day, week after week. Even the most progressive folks are alarmed by Lakeview street shootings last week. It’s difficult to sugar-coat out-of-control street-crime activity EVERYWHERE in Chicago when most of us have personal stories to tell. Furthermore, Northside liberals no longer enjoy their “safe zone” neighborhoods and feel preyed-upon; must north-siders finally admit their concerns and now warily move-about with great caution, even when operating in their formerly safe neighborhoods.
My favorite retort is “It was worse in the 90’s!”
Now that the Tribune and Sun Times are both democrat propaganda outlets, they should merge into one fake news fraud newspaper.
What’s the problem? Half the city can’t read, let’s sell nespapers. Fill them withn BS, theylll never know!