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.
No chance in hell. The current young generation were just passed through the CPS and now have zero job skills. Crime is the only thing they know. The CPS has created a generation of criminals.
The new superintendent will be a political hack, like most of them have been, and will be kissing the mayors ass as required. Most of the command staff at CPD have never passed a promotional exam and have been elevated into command positions though the “merit” system. Merit means that you have clout and clout is everything. The new clown superintendent will reflect that. The whole system is corrupt and failed.