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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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DEI hire with no skills, what else is new?
Craziness like this is very reminiscent of the insane crime waves of the 70’s and 80’s with these horrific events occurring so frequent that no one really even remembers them anymore. When the St. Valentine’s day massacre took place in 1929 it was so uncommon that we still talk about it today. Yet, four people are killed on a CTA train, or a family killed in Gage Park, and it’s like, oh, it’s Tuesday. Which brings me to the opportunity today to explain to my son who John Wayne Gacy was, being an integral part of Chicago’s violent and gory… Read more »