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Witnesses said a large group was fighting on the street and in a nearby parking lot before the shooting began. Officers reported shell casings along a full block of Erie Street, from Franklin all the way to Orleans. The victims are the 15th through 22nd people shot in River North this year.
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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River North will be the new cyberpunk Vice City, with gangs, gambling, degeneracy, cannabis stores, dance clubs, and underground there will be prostitution, hard drugs, human trafficking, etc. Mostly run by the cartels and the Eastern European gangs who will battle each other for supremacy. It’s going to get bloody in the next several years. These gangbanger shootouts are a distraction.
Downtown is the new Englewood
Just another night of excitement in River North District.