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The company said it has received more than 11,000 job applications for the 700 positions they’re aiming to fill at Medinah.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The people who run Rivers are delighted, now the riffraff will go to Wabash and Ohio to shop with their machine guns. Isn’t this on P Stone turf?interlopers will be shot on sight you know when it’s starting when everyone starts swinging.
The real gamble is entrusting your safety to Chicago and Cook County