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"Reports that...the Cook County State's Attorney's Office didn't even bother to file a motion to seek detaining the accused are problematic," state Sen. John Curran said. "This highlights the misplaced priorities of Illinois' criminal justice system when the prosecutor prioritizes the freedom of a violent offender over the safety of those police officers dedicated to protecting and serving our communities."
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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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In new Preckwinkle-Fox-Johnson trifecta, the criminal is priority-constituent, and the law-abiding taxpayer the patsy, That fact is irrefutable. Look at daily crime stats, then realize far more crime is not even reported, the police not even called. And if the perpetrators are actually even caught, likelihood of them being charged with crime, with DA approving charges, is slim to none, at this point, unless a sensational murder.
Deport this b**** back to Mexico — and send Crimesha Foxx with her — they can do an act together in a Tijuana donkey show