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According to the posting, the state historian will need expertise in the history of at least one underrepresented minority group. They must also do public outreach and have a track record of community engagement and service to Illinois history. The position was previously held by a state employee who was an Abraham Lincoln expert.
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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IL Democrats will use this to continue their cancel culture campaign to erase Illinois history
Another Cancel Culture Crackpot Cause — This Time To Remove The Name Of Stephen Douglas From A Chicago Neighborhood – Chicago Tonight
Straight white men need not apply.
Exactly.
Look at the the government “servants” in Illinois, especially Chicago. It’s becoming South Africa; we know what happened in South Africa after the faces of government changed.
No Illinoisans, the push for diversity is not showing any benefits for the governed. Incompetence and racial preferences reign – elections have consequences. Time to start voting with our heads, not blind emotion and some perverse form of social leveling.
“underrepresented” is such a subjective term. The ‘elites’ are always underrepresented too, because there are always so few of them, compared to the many plebs.