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The U.S. Marine Corps leased the property from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago through 2053, Ald. Andre Vasquez said, and it has served as the U.S. Marines’ Joseph J. McCarthy Reserve Center. Vasquez said he believes the Marines aren’t actively using the property and people who are homeless have been living there. It’s also unclear how many people could live in the property.
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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How about they shelter where they came from?
They are in the US illegally.
La Quinta Inn, Elk Grove Village, took in illegal immigrants around 6 months ago. I have read the village of Elk Grove purchased the property and two adjacent properties. The hotel is being torn down. My guess, it was trashed beyond repair. This done on the taxpayers dime.