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Nearly 165,000 Travel + Leisure readers weighed in on the survey, rating cities across the country on criteria like sights and landmarks, food, culture, friendliness, shopping and value. “Honestly, who doesn’t like Chicago?” one reader asks.
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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Shopping on the Magnificent Mile, now that’s funny
I don’t like Chicago.
Any article that mentions the Magnificent Mile in a positive manner was written over 10 years ago.
The 40 people who got shot over the weekend aren’t big fans, that’s who.
Travel & Leisure magazine need to post link to cwbchicago.com blog site. Their readership relying on past experiences rather than current events in Chicago.
Fake news fraud — travel writers are phoning it in from Mommy and Daddy’s basement, cutting and pasting online puffery, instead of finding out what Chicago is really like