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While city officials struggle with where to house the migrants, the northwest suburbs of Rosemont, Schaumburg and Elk Grove Village have passed ordinances to prevent migrants from being housed in their hotels. Cicero approved a measure to fine bus companies $750 per person for letting out homeless migrants, and Rosemont police threatened to impound the bus and arrest the driver for endangering the passengers if he let them out. But west suburban Oak Park is paying to house migrants in hotels.
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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Oak Park is paradise for wealthy progressive liberals paying very very high real estate taxes for their beautiful vintage mansions on manicured lawns, home-security systems engaged. But Oak Park never achieves North Shore’s lifestyle, by any description, not in regards to crime stats, infrastructure, recreational facilities, retail choices, medical care, or K-12 student academic achievement.
What Oak Park has is seriously “woke” cred, far more than any North Shore suburb. So rally the interstate buses, Oak Park will shelter them all, while its neighbor River Forest clenches its teeth and mans its cross-streets with squad cars.
Yet, both Oak Park and the North Shore vote straight ticket D+90, just like the inner city.
Oak Park and Evanston are to be avoided at all costs. No reason to go somewhere that is intent on destroying itself.
Did anyone tell these jumpers that they now owe over $40,000 per person or family in pension debt or whatever the amount is? After they get their drivers license they are considered Illinois residents. We assume the debts of the state we move to so they assume the Illinois pension debt. Hand out flyers explaining how that works. Maybe they will leave to go to a more fiscally state. P.S. If it is true that if many will get a drivers license what address do they put on it. Tent #179 on the corner of Randolph and ???/right next to… Read more »
Apparently folks lacking an address can be certified homeless and get State ID, presumably also driving license if otherwise qualified. https://casetext.com/regulation/illinois-administrative-code/title-92-transportation/part-1030-issuance-of-licenses/section-103012-identification-cards-for-the-homeless
Yes, taxpayer, exactly. I was a homeless case manager for years, and to get an IL State ID/License, and to apply for any pubic welfare benefits, a signed homeless letter from a case manager will suffice; the address of the homeless services agency suffices as a valid address. Many homeless pick up their mail at homeless agencies. At the time, these letters needed to be notarized (did mine at a currency exchange across the street); don’t know if this current illegal immigrant lot will have to get notorization…
I’ve seen Temporary IDs from some of them. They literally have the shelter address on them. I’ve also heard that they plan on rotating families every 2 months.
But a temporary address on an ID is just that temporary but on a drivers license the address should be updated to a new tent or sidewalk address if they move.
The purpose of the driver’s license is so someone can collect their straight ticket ballot. Of course, they’re not supposed to vote, but when since 1982 has any administration since Reagan looked into Chicago’s voter fraud? It’s never happened. No one looks into it. That’s why they get away with it.
On a side note do you have any figures on the immigrants that came via Ellis Island. Most if not all that came from Europe had to be sponsored with living and job prospects. I remember reading and photos that large ships with thousands came to New York to be processed but not sure how many ended up in Chicago. I know it was many more than the 24K jumpers now in Chicago. The city was built by brick by brick by the immigrants. What will the jumpers accomplish in 10 or 20 years compared to what our parents and… Read more »
Spot on Fred. My grandparents (in the 1920s) had to live with relatives until they could get a place of their own.
There was no free stays in a hotel and the government didn’t fly them in either. They had to get here on their dime.
Correct and they had very few dimes in their pockets and as soon as my parents and grandparents got off the boat and got processed they went to live with the sponsor and went to work the next day. Learned the language rather quickly but still had the accent. I notice all the migrants when I shop all speak Spanish and so do the kids. My prediction and you heard it here first that in 10 years or so there will be a petition to change the official language from English to Spanish. This has been in the works for… Read more »
Check this out! 2700 people in 2200 S. Halsted
https://twitter.com/BenBergquam/status/1734070474856886591
Completely insane if true. Things are only getting worser.
True. Very. With my own eyes.
Yeah to Rosemont! The mobster town has got it right. One of the few conservative parts of the suburbs left.